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FranklinCovey Blog | December, 2011
How To Increase Your Professional Online Presence (POP)
Just recently we were asked for interviewing tips by two separate individuals. On further review neither had much of a Professional Online Presence (POP). In today’s competitive and technologically savvy world having a POP is essential. There is so much a potential employer can learn about candidates, and so much opportunities for candidates to share about their qualifications and skills. So, think of this short post as a beginners guide to creating an effective POP.
A good place to start would be with LinkedIn. Get as many people as you can, preferably people who you have worked with, to recommend you, and write a positive review. Then join some relevant groups, and enquire about jobs, and look for job postings. Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
What GoldiLocks Can Teach Us About Learning
In the fable of Goldilocks and the Three Bears we learn about a young girl who wants everything “just right.” Throughout the story she is faced with several choices, which she tests and tries, and eventually settles on the choices that are right for her. Does this sound familiar?
This Goldilocks Principle is how people are choosing to learn. With the Learning Explosion taking place all around us we too are faced with an endless array of learning choices. If we want to learn about ferrofluid, we can Google it, view a informative video on YouTube, read a book on it, or attend a live or virtual classroom. Like Goldilocks we can find information that is just right for our specific needs. If we don’t need the entire history of ferrofluid we don’t have to have it force fed to us in a hour long classroom. Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
Be Patient With Technology
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
3 Principles Learning Professionals Should Steal From Advertisers
One of the simplest concepts in any marketing or advertising strategy are the 3 M’s: Market, Message, Media.
When you are trying to communicate to another person, or group of people — whether it’s in a corporate training situation or in advertising — consider these three key elements to get your point across.
1. Market: You need to know to whom you are speaking. Who are they? What are their interests? What is their background? What are their problems you can solve? Learn as much about them as possible before you even begin to develop your training workshop. You don’t want to get 80% of the way through development and realize you’ve missed the key needs of your learners. Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
To learn: Just add water.
We live in a compressed world. Everything around us seems so tightly wound or packed so tightly that it’s hard to see how it can make a difference. Is there anything in that tightly packed wrapper? Perhaps you’ve seen your kids delight when they place a “magic capsule” in water and it expands into a sponge animal or dinosaur.
In a very real sense, this is one way learning is being delivered. Consider Twitter for instance. 140 characters. What can you do with that? (By the way this paragraph was 140 characters!) Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
Please, let’s recycle (knowledge).
Google has essentially become a recycling bin for our memories. If you need to learn something, you search for things that someone else has discovered, processed and shared.
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
Change just ONE thing to free yourself from your phone
Like Pavlov’s dog, many of us have been conditioned to reach for our pocket or purse whenever we hear a chime. Some people like myself also suffer from a condition that is commonly called, “phantom vibration syndrome”(Read this a great article on the syndrome by fast Company)–Which means you reach for your phone, because you think it is ringing or vibrating, only to find it isn’t there.
Yes, I hate to admit it, but I am one of those people who cannot go an hour without pulling out my phone to do something…whether it’s checking email, checking in to a location app, updating my social media status, or surfing the web. I even tried going a day without having my phone with me. I felt like a smoker who is trying to go cold turkey. It was really hard. Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
Age Defying Webinars
While speaking to a group of online learning professionals we recalled a story of an older female facilitator who told us that webinars have extended her career. Because people can’t see how old she is, they don’t have any predetermined stereotypes against her. Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
If you learned it the hard way…
How many times have you heard someone say, “That was a really tough experience! I guess I learned it the hard way.”
We can guarantee you’ve said it at least once in your life. Maybe it was said after a complicated project was completed. After a difficult conversation with your boss. After a thorny relationship had ended.
You might say that the most important thing is that you learned something. However, we believe you should go one step further: You need to share that new knowledge with others.
Sharing your experiences allows other people to learn. It’s also how you fortify your knowledge. Life is like a great learning laboratory filled with beakers and vials of ongoing experiments to test your knowledge and to improve your acumen. Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com