Do you know AIDA? I had the pleasure to introduced to AIDA several years ago (it must be more than 20 years now. Well, time do fly!) and it never disappoint me! It, I said? It! Yes, is not wrong! Not wrong at all. Or the act of my crazy spell-checker! You see, AIDA is not she, is it! AIDA is a powerful technique and an acronym used widely in marketing and advertising, to describe the ways a viewer or reader engaged to an advertisement or to an event!
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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 ADDIE model is a framework of reference and of processes that can facilitate the work of e-Learning Process Designers, Training Developers or/and of instructional designers! It helps you to channel efficiently the various processes comprising an effective learning process and focused on the issues, require your most attention!
What is a highly effective blogging framework? Writing is not always easy! Especially when you have to blog frequently! You are in constant need for new ideas and approaches, to make your message more cleared and at the point. For this reason, you need a blogging framework to support you and help you develop effective blog posts.
There was a time when I had to produce a lot of content in a very short period of time. Part of my business development duties was the draft of the comprehensive responses to various Calls Of Tenders and proposals providing specialize solutions and approaches, towards various clients! And this it was a lot of writing!
Do you know what agile management is?
I like simple things! I like to work in an intuitive way and do not spend time in tasks that are not directly related with my main goals! Therefore, I try to simplify my life and my workflow, reducing at the same time my workload and gaining more time! In order to do that, periodically, I try to clean up, as much as possible cluttered and redundant files, links, e-mails, etc., aiming at focus only on the tasks at hand! The same principles I apply to the way I work!
In today’s complex conditions of living and working, one factor can diversify you from the other people and provide extremely value-added services towards the people you associate with, is the organization!
Life organization and management can be tricky when you use it sporadically and without a system to assist you to achieve your goals. But, today, with all the personal and professional activities, should be accomplished, during a day, it is of major importance! Fortunately, though, there are valuable systems that can help you decide and reach the destination you have chosen in life!
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People are always excited about success. Successful people draw our attention, we want to follow them, we want to know the way they acted to get this success. There are lots of rules, daily habits or ways of thinking they could practice before reaching the top. But I’m sure that there’s one thing, one key principle they all used, sometimes even not realizing it.
