Education is often described as the lighting of a fire rather than the filling of a bucket. Most teachers and parents recognise the truth of this instinctively. We have all seen the moment when a student leans forward, energy suddenly present, questions emerging without prompting, effort flowing rather than being dragged into place. Something aligns.Continue reading “Mapping Motivation for Students”
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The Organisational Map and 4 Change Stoppers: # 4 Blame
Blame is one of the triumvirate of psycho-pathologies that worst afflict human beings. If we consider briefly for a moment the story of Adam and Eve in the garden at the beginning, when they were perfect, we find in the Fall of mankind all three psycho-pathologies there in virulent form. First, they attempt to denyContinue reading “The Organisational Map and 4 Change Stoppers: # 4 Blame”
Emotional Intelligence and Educating People
Emotional intelligence is certainly a breakthrough concept of the last twenty years or so; it helps explain why so many high IQ or highly intelligent people make spectacularly bad decisions and crash. Further, it also gives us a new agenda and language that can be used to help all managers and teachers and coaches developContinue reading “Emotional Intelligence and Educating People”
How To Say Sorry – Really!
As we all know only too well, it is very easy to offend people, especially at work. It is not so easy to put that offence right, especially if the offence is justified and we have made a mistake. There are basically four options we have. We can not say sorry at all! This makesContinue reading “How To Say Sorry – Really!”
Assessing Yourself
The world can be a bleak place. Of course, there are always those, in Ian McDonald’s wonderful phrase, who “live lives of sweet and seamless gold”; for whom privilege and a sense of entitlement irrespective of merit smooth the way. But for the rest of us there are problems. One core source of problems comesContinue reading “Assessing Yourself”
The Mapping Motivation Series 