Our greatest teacher-trainer-learners often turn out to be wonderful storytellers. Through their stories, they provide a context for our own learning. They engage us and […]
On a day when friends and colleagues are feeling isolated by current shelter- in-place guidelines designed to fight the spread of the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic), […]
The massive transformation of our onsite world—at least temporarily—into a coronavirus pandemic shelter-in-place online world dominated by social distancing (but far from complete social isolation) […]
The clivias are blooming in our atrium and in our backyard. They don’t care that, for the moment, our world is again completely topsy turvy. […]
Inspired by Tom Whitwell annual collection of things learned, here are my ’52 things I learned in 2018′. No explanation or context of what it […]
Empathetic, problem finder-solver, risk-taker, networked, observant, creator, resilient, reflective: eight characteristics of The Innovator’s Mindset. And eight terms that could easily have been applied to […]
I’m watching—and, more importantly, participating in—the growth of another community of learning—the one fostered by writer-presenter-educator George Couros through the “Innovate Inside the Box [#IITB] […]
To display the character—and the characteristics—of the Innovator’s Mindset requires us to be observant, be creators, be resilient, and be reflective, George Couros and Katie […]
Sometimes a book can be much more than what rests upon its pages. It can be a catalyst. A meeting place. An invitation to engage […]
I’m learning to use Instagram as a tool to foster training-teaching-learning. Not because friends and colleagues told me I should be on Instagram. (They did.) […]
After reading George Couros' book "Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity", it made me reconsider how I would start […]
Today’s guest post is written by Keith Westman. Follow him on Twitter at @keithwestman. Note: I am aware I am not the first person to use […]