Your Wearable Backup Brain
Often, when we try and remember to do something, we forget. Instead of trying to retain all of it, we’ve resorted to digital notes. Something…
A First-Time Manager’s Guide to Leading Virtual Teams
In the past, new managers often had the luxury of cutting their teeth on traditional collocated teams: groups of people, sitting down the hall from…
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6 Ways To Raise Your Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
Your emotional awareness can determine your success and overall happiness in all aspects of your life. Keep reading to increase your emotional intelligence. Sourced through…
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3 Secret PR Weapons To Help Build Your Brand
Whether you are a business of five people or a Fortune 50 company, you need to know how tell your story the right way, at…
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The Best Managers Are Boring Managers
What would the perfect robot manager be like? Looks aside, it would arguably be objective, transparent, unselfish, and apolitical. Because of this, it would assign…
In the Age of Loneliness, Connections at Work Matter
HBR STAFF Loneliness is a feeling we’d all like to avoid. Research shows it’s terrible for our health; it diminishes cognitive performance and the immune…
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8 Approaches Ultra-Productive People Use To Finish Their Tasks
Are you always racing against time? Do you always find yourself stuck with a lot of tasks and no way to manage them? Do you…
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STEM Teen Tech Awards… message from Maggie Philbin
The latest Teen Tech awards have been announced. They give young people the opportunity to develop STEM ideas in a national competition. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teentech-awards-20156-maggie-philbin?trk=hb_ntf_MEGAPHONE_ARTICLE_POST https://learningrenaissance.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/stem-teen-tech-awards-message-from-maggie-philbin/
WOODLANDS CAMPUS READY TO FLY HIGH
Solihull College & University Centre and the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP), have embarked on an ambitious project for their Aerospace and…
Becoming irresistible: A new model for employee engagement
http://dupress.com/articles/employee-engagement-strategies/After decades of corporate discourse about the war for talent, it appears that the battle is over, and talent has won. Employees today have increased…
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Bogus training courses come under fire
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bogus-training-courses-come-under-fire Dodgy training providers who promise fake apprenticeships face prosecution under new government reforms. placeholder students offered fake apprenticeships – later to find out they…
The Secret to Solving Problems
It’s easy to make others responsible for problems in your organization. Someone else fell short. It couldn’t be you! When leaders blame, everyone blames. Blame is the…
A Refresher on Current Ratio
One of the biggest fears of a small business owner is running out of cash. But large businesses in financial trouble face the same risk.…
4 Secrets to Winning
Don’t go through the motions for one more day. Survival might be success during crisis, but it’s failure over the long-term. Define success in order to win.…
The Use of Games as a Learning Strategy in the Classroom
This article from David Wortley neatly outlines the process and advantages of using games as part of the class learning strategy… https://learningrenaissance.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/the-use-of-games-as-a-learning-strategy-in-the-classroom/
The New Necessity for Leadership Success
There is no secret to success, but some qualities and behaviors make success more likely. 25 qualities and behaviors that make success more likely: Intelligence.…
Students, Computers and Learning: we could do so much better, and here’s how
Rose Luckin The 200 page report published this week by the OECD is packed with tables and figures that tell a story about the state of…
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How do mature students perform in higher education?
There has been a lot of research into mature students in higher education. My strong impression is that the main focus of it is on…
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The Journal launches Let’s Work Together campaign to tackle North East skills gap
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/journal-launches-lets-work-together-10083233?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews The Journal launches Let's Work Together campaign to tackle North East skills gap The Journal is today launching a new campaign to encourage North…
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10 Habits Successful People Give Up to Increase Their Productivity
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/10-habits-successful-people-give-increase-their-productivity.html?n=12&ref=fbp What are you willing to do in order to reach success? It is common among people these days to be average and not stand…
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