Takis Athanassiou What happens when a choice you made, imposed to someone else way of thinking and doing? You do make a lot of choices in the course of your life. What you eat, how you would dress up, with whom you would associate with! You take many choices in your everyday life. Either to a personal or to a professional level. But, most of the times, the decisions you make, affect other people as well!
It is not always easy to think about tomorrow. The next day, most of the times is a puzzle to be solved, if not a problem for most of the people!
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Leadership as a discipline and as a daily practice is a lot different to leadership per se (or at least what everybody means when we talking about leadership!). The discipline of leadership is a self-development practice, a one can lead you to radically different ways of doing and behaving, from those you were accustomed previously. For that fact, Leadership is a deep transformation act, that you can, only, employ freely and deliberately!
Instructional Design is a methodology, discipline, practice and an art of developing effective learning experiences for the learners. The effectiveness of such methodology is proved by the effectiveness of the learning process itself.
Instructional Design (or Instructional Systems Design (ISD)):
is the practice of creating “instructional experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skill more efficient, effective, and appealing.” The process consists broadly of determining the current state and needs of the learner, defining the end goal of instruction, and creating some “intervention” to assist in the transition. Ideally the process is informed by pedagogically (process of teaching) and andragogically (adult learning) tested theories of learning and may take place in student-only, teacher-led or community-based settings. The outcome of this instruction may be directly observable and scientifically measured or completely hidden and assumed. There are many instructional design models but many are based on the ADDIE model with the five phases: analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. As a field, instructional design is historically and traditionally rooted in cognitive and behavioral psychology, though recently Constructivism (learning theory) has influenced thinking in the field.(Wikipedia: Instructional design)
A practice as that, it is based on many knowledge domains and derives its effectiveness by the systematic application of valid models (as the ADDIE is) at the mapping of the current training requirement and the development of learning material and learning paths which can lead learners to the achievement of the required learning objectives!
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Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (1984) is not your typical business book. Written as a gripping novel, it follows Alex Rogo, a struggling plant manager who has 90 days to save his factory from closure. Through a chance reunion with his former physics professor, Jonah, Alex discovers the Theory of Constraints (TOC)—a revolutionary framework that reshapes how businesses optimize performance.
Clarity in our intentions and communication is one of the most important assets in your toolbox. Sometimes, you have failed to convey the right message or intention towards others! It is a lack of communication, or simply your failure to realize what you really strive after?
The Monthly Review for August 2014 is a collection of the most interesting posts and articles, presented in this blog and articles of interest from around the web!
Do you like to make better decisions? Do you like to decide as a fighter pilot? Then, perhaps you should try to put a little bit of OODA in your life! OODA is a small military acronym I picked up during my army days (in Greece, an at least 1-year military service is compulsory for the men.) I had plenty of hours to spear and a lot of American Army manuals to read! OODA is one of those things you could find extremely useful, later on, at your civilian life!
The focus is an attribute, much in need today, in an information overload environment! Focus permits you to solely concentrate on the things to be done, ignoring all the other aspects of the environment.
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