by Jeffrey Keefer | Aug 5, 2019 | Coaching, Opportunities, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice |
How do you navigate the cost of learning? What sort of world would we have if we could improve ourselves in any way possible, at any time, without any limits? Want to get an MBA? Great, let’s start today. Want to figure out how to fix those leadership challenges...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Aug 1, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice |
Many of us have the experience of creating SMART goals, especially during that once-a-year time when organizations tend to focus upon them. You know, we set our goals for the next year, and while they are often organizationally-focused and based on the context we know...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 31, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice |
SMART Goals Assume Contextual Stability Continuing our exploration of challenges to the notion and practice of SMART Goals, after the one I recently wrote related to the goals being more for my organization than for me, we come to the ever-present conflict that all...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 30, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice |
Yesterday I invited us to consider if anything seems somehow distancing or not quite right about how we perceive SMART Goals. One way of considering this involves being aware of when our eyes sometimes glaze over or we have an immediate reaction when we hear them used...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 29, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice |
I spent 5 days last week exploring SMART Goals, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound, and how they can be applied to individual professional development needs. While SMART is not the only goal-setting framework available, it is...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 27, 2019 | Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice |
Time-Bound Goals Give us Structure Today is the fifth and final part of my 5-part SMART Goals series, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Basic information exists on what they are and how they are used, yet there are fewer...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 26, 2019 | Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice |
Relevant Goals Matter Today is part 4 of my 5-part SMART Goals series, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Basic information exists on what they are and how they are used, yet there are fewer resources for how to write and apply...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 25, 2019 | Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice |
Today is part 3 of my 5-part series on SMART Goals, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. While basic information abounds on what they are and how they are used, there are few resources for how to write and apply them as...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 23, 2019 | Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice |
Today is part 2 of my 5-part series on SMART Goals, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. While basic information abounds on what they are and how they are used, there are fewer resources for how they can be written and applied,...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 22, 2019 | Coaching, Goals, Organizational & Workplace Learning, Reflective Practice |
This week begins a 5-part series on SMART Goals, those that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. While basic information abounds on what they are and how they are used, there are fewer resources for how they can be written and applied,...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 19, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Discussions, Goals, Reflective Practice |
You Learned Something This Week. Celebrate It! Profound or apparent, you learned something this week. Celebrate it. That’s right, you learned. Something new that you did not have on Monday. Or Tuesday, or even yesterday. You now have more, enhanced, complex, or even...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 18, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Discussions, Goals, Reflective Practice |
If at first you don’t succeed, learn something from it! If at first you don’t succeed, learn something from it! Here on Day 4 of our Summer Learn-a-thon, it may be the perfect time to check in and see if our personal learning goals have turned into something . . ....
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 17, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Discussions, Goals, Reflective Practice |
Today is Day 3 of 5 of our Summer Learn-a-thon Hump Day! You know that Wednesday, the middle of the typical work week in many countries, is considered the hump (or middle) of the week. Go check it out on Wikipedia if you want to know more about it and even the origin...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 16, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Discussions, Goals, Reflective Practice |
Welcome to Day 2 of the 5-Day Summer Learn-a-thon! Did you learn something new yesterday? Perhaps you now know something about your work, your life, your interests, or your future dreams you didn’t know before? Perhaps you had an experience that has led you to...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 15, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Discussions, Goals, Reflective Practice |
Today is Day 1 of our 5-Day Summer Learn-a-thon! We have five days together to learn what is most meaningful, impactful, important for each one of us, individually. The twist is that we are here together with the opportunity to support, encourage, and help maintain...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 14, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Reflective Practice |
Tomorrow begins our very informal, let’s just try-it-out 5-day learning challenge, which we are now referring to as a Learn-a-thon. What better time than the present to develop some guidelines and expectations for it?Let’s keep in mind . . . this is the...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 12, 2019 | Challenges, Coaching, Reflective Practice |
Just because we are in summer does not mean we take a vacation from our personal development! We may slow down a bit and take more time for ourselves to rest and recover from busy lives, though that does not mean our learning stops. Formal learning may pause, yet...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 11, 2019 | Coaching, Education, Reflective Practice, Wikipedia / Wikimedia |
Just-in-time learning is an approach to education when training is available exactly when and how it is needed by the learner. This reminds me of the value of coaching itself, where we can be an as-need bridge between those with whom we work and their goals. Â Does...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 10, 2019 | Coaching, Education, Reflective Practice, Wikipedia / Wikimedia |
I did this Facebook Live this evening and wanted to share it. Continuing to process this experience. RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Archives Archives Select Month July 2019 (6) April 2019 (1) February 2019 (11) January 2019 (16) December...
by Jeffrey Keefer | Jul 9, 2019 | Coaching, Education, Goals, Reflective Practice, Wikipedia / Wikimedia |
I have been focusing on just-in-time learning recently, with a post about a direct experience I had with this yesterday when I literally wrote the article on it. However, I have been thinking about one of the findings in one of the articles I cited in that, The Role...
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