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How to Stop Mean Girls in the Workplace
One study by John Medina showed that "adults with chronically high stress levels performed 50% worse on certain cognitive tests than adults with low stress." According to a 2007 Workplace Bullying Institute survey , though the majority of workplace bullies are men (60/40), female bullies target other women 71% of the time. Workplace bullying directly impacts the bottom line by affecting productivity, wellness (with subsequent rise in employer benefit costs), attrition, attraction and retention. Other studies estimate the financial costs of this lost productivity (at
HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Learning to Work, Working to Learn
At the moment, my book wish list includes: Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Cliff Atkinson) Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD) (John Medina) From Training to Performance Improvement (Jeanne Farrington) via Harold Jarche Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition) (Non Designer's Design Book) (Robin Williams) Principles of Instructional Design (Robert Gagne) Be sure to check out Essential Reading
Learning Visions - Monday, March 16, 2009
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John Medina's "Brain Rules"
John Medina - source: John Medina's web site "Toss your PowerPoint presentations. Burn your current PowerPoint presentations and make new ones." I enjoyed John Medina's excellently implemented, thoroughly referenced, browsable and entertaining Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School partly because it complemented some of my prejudices. I did my teacher-training in 1976-1977, and the proportion of the 1-year It's (sic) text-based (nearly 40 words per per slide), with six hierarchical levels of chapters
Fortnightly Mailing - Sunday, February 15, 2009
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  • John Medina's "Brain Rules"
    John Medina - source: John Medina's web site "Toss your PowerPoint presentations. Burn your current PowerPoint presentations and make new ones." I enjoyed John Medina's excellently implemented, thoroughly referenced, browsable and entertaining Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School partly because it complemented some of my prejudices. I did my teacher-training in 1976-1977, and the proportion of the 1-year It's (sic) text-based (nearly 40 words per per slide), with six hierarchical levels of chapters
    Fortnightly Mailing - Sunday, February 15, 2009
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  • How to Stop Mean Girls in the Workplace
    One study by John Medina showed that "adults with chronically high stress levels performed 50% worse on certain cognitive tests than adults with low stress." According to a 2007 Workplace Bullying Institute survey , though the majority of workplace bullies are men (60/40), female bullies target other women 71% of the time. Workplace bullying directly impacts the bottom line by affecting productivity, wellness (with subsequent rise in employer benefit costs), attrition, attraction and retention. Other studies estimate the financial costs of this lost productivity (at
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, October 29, 2009
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  • Anatomy of a classroom: think out of the box
    Dr John Medina Out of the box At a Futurelab conference, while I waited to give a keynote talk, the organiser gave us all a piece of card, which you could fold up into a box. Top-down lecture methods are still the norm in universities and as degrees are required for teacher training and lectures still practiced in teacher training, so there’s enormous modelling pressure to ‘teach by lecture’ ( Brightman 2007). " If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom.
    Donald Clark Plan B - Thursday, February 12, 2009
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  • Learning to Work, Working to Learn
    At the moment, my book wish list includes: Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Cliff Atkinson) Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD) (John Medina) From Training to Performance Improvement (Jeanne Farrington) via Harold Jarche Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition) (Non Designer's Design Book) (Robin Williams) Principles of Instructional Design (Robert Gagne) Be sure to check out Essential Reading
    Learning Visions - Monday, March 16, 2009
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