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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 you face at the office? Fine, do this, and it's...
SMART Goals Prioritize Short-Term Success
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...
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 project managers face. How do we build...
Is the Organizational Focus a SMART Goal Challenge?
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...
Challenges to SMART Goals
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...
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 resources for how to write and apply them...
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 them to professional...
Actions that Help Us Develop are Achievable
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...
Measuring Professional Development Goals
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,...
Professional Development Goals must be Specific
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,...
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 clearer knowledge, skills, or beliefs than you...
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 . . . perhaps . . . different than what we expected. Counter to...
Today is Day 3 of 5, our Summer Learn-a-thon Hump Day!
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...
Welcome to Day 2 of the 5-Day Summer Learn-a-thon!
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 generic cialis kaufen that...
Today is Day 1 of our 5-Day Summer Learn-a-thon!
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...
Learn-a-thon Guidelines
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 summer, and we...
Who is up for a 5-day learning opportunity?
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...
Coaches as Just-in-Time Learning
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. Does...
Just-in-time learning can be empowering and directly help others, too!
I did this Facebook Live this evening and wanted to share it. Continuing to process this experience.
Helping Adults Experiment to Change Behaviors
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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