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Leadership Turn

August 8th, 2006

Use the Learning Styles to Develop Quality Training Modules

Now that you are aware of the different learning styles, what can you do with that information?
If you’re a teacher or trainer, your natural tendency will be to play to your own learning style.  For example:  If you are a kinesthetic learner, the chance are you will plan lots of hands on exercises, throw in […]

By Mary Jo Manzanares -- 2 comments

August 3rd, 2006

The Kinesthetic Learner

We’ve already discussed the Visual and Verbal learner, and if those styles just didn’t seem quite right, you are probably a Kinesthetic learner. 
In its most simple explanation, a kinesthetic learner learns by doing.
What does this mean?  A kinesthetic learner is a hands-on kind of person.  They need an interactive experience to maximize the learning process, and […]

By Mary Jo Manzanares -- 3 comments

July 30th, 2006

The Auditory Learner

If the concept of Visual learning didn’t seem to ring true for you, you may be an Auditory learner.
In its most simple explanation, an Auditory learner learns by hearing.
What does this mean?  Auditory learners respond well to verbal explanations, discussions, talking things through and listening to what others have to say.  They think in words, […]

By Mary Jo Manzanares -- 2 comments

July 28th, 2006

The Visual Learner

There are three primary learning styles:  visual, auditory (verbal) and kinesthetic (tactile).  These learning styles impact how you process information, how you communicate information to others, and how you respond and interact within groups.  We all have a primary and secondary learning style. 
The development of this information came about from a variety of psychological and […]

By Mary Jo Manzanares -- 10 comments

July 27th, 2006

Leadership Thought for Thursday

Diversity raises the intelligence of groups.
 
 
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By Mary Jo Manzanares -- 0 comments

March 28th, 2006

The optimal size of a team

 ”If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, the size of the team is too large.”
–Jeff Bezos, chairman, CEO, and founder, Amazon.com
This quote comes from Fast Blog.  As you can see its generated a few comments about lean and too mean vs the inefficiencies of committees rather than teams.
Kevin Eikenberry had this to say
There […]

By Michelle -- 1 comment

March 18th, 2006

Confident vs Cocky

Confidence is important. 
When you are climbing the greasy pole, or trying to win the respect of your team confidence is important.  No one enjoys hand holding or the continual need to reinforce a sense of self belief in people.   Yet even worse than this lack of confidence are those that transgress the line between between confident […]

By Michelle -- 0 comments