Do you know the difference between brainstorming, brainwriting and braindumping? Or the difference between the 5 Whys and the Nine Whys techniques?
If you’d like to find out—and read up on more meeting terms and on all the activities we do in meetings, have a look at Lucid’s The Glossary of Meeting Terms.
I think you’ll find it very useful.
“Karl Popper, the great philosopher of science, once divided the world into two categories: clocks and clouds.
Clocks are neat, orderly systems that can be solved through reduction; clouds are an epistemic mess, “highly irregular, disorderly, and more or less unpredictable.”
The mistake of modern science is to pretend that everything is a clock, which is why we get seduced again and again by the false promises of brain scanners and gene sequencers.
We want to believe we will understand nature if we find the exact right tool to cut its joints.
But that approach is doomed to failure. We live in a universe not of clocks but of clouds.”
Jonah Lehrer, Wired Magazine
One of the most powerful elements of “Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction” is the importance of asking questions.
Rosenshine gives us lots of great examples of the types of questions teachers and trainers can ask to help develop student learning and strengthen their long-term memory.
Here are some of them:
How are … and… alike?
What is the main idea of …?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of …?
In what way is … related to …?
Compare … and … with regard to ….
What do you think causes …?
How does … tie in with what we have learnt before?
Which one is the best … and why?
What are some possible solutions for the problem of …?
Do you agree or disagree with this statement: …?
What do you still not understand about …?
If you work as a trainer or have children at home, you might like to try out some of these questions.
I found this glossary of buzzwords used in Human Resources in the German -speaking world—like Generation X,Y,Z and Alpha or Offboarding and Onboarding—on allevia.ch‘s website.
You’ve probably heard of most of these words, but do you know what they mean? Why not test yourself?
You feel there’s a term missing? You can let allevia know and they will add it to the list.
Were there any words that were new to you, or words you feel are missing?
We can learn so much more about ourselves when someone gives us constructive feedback.
This is something I again realised recently.
A good colleague and friend of mine gave me some valuable feedback the other day. Something they had observed and felt it was helpful for me to know.
A person giving feedback is taking a risk, as they have no idea how the other person is going to respond. So my first reaction was to thank them for this gift.
To check that I understood the message correctly and to show the other person that I was listening carefully, I summarised what I had heard them say.
And then I explained how I was going to act differently, or at least try to.
Of course, I will be asking my colleague again for their feedback very soon.
That should help me to get better at receiving feedback, and to also let the other person feel more comfortable giving it to me.
What are you thoughts on this?
