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Here’s a Way to Fix Relationships in Distress

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The dog cares less about issues and more about behavior returning to normal. My crass behaviors, her failures I didn’t easily forgive, nasty words, real anger, slamming doors – the whole bit. This releases your own hormones leading to a relaxation of emotional tension. This is the concept I mentioned, the neutral third.

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CRZY APOCALYPSE — 4.1 WORKPLACE ELEMENTS TO HELP YOU SURVIVE.

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Most importantly – and we’ll tackle this later—it’s imperative for individuals and organizations to deal with CRZY-MKRs in a decisive way before they habituate behaviors that chip away at employees emotional security. CMI: We need keen observation and vigilance to uncover this behavior. Then label the individual a CRZY-MKR.

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RETHINKING THE RAZOR “ILT HAS THE SHELF LIFE OF MILK” or an INTRODUCTION TO Instructor Led Interactive Learning (ILIL or Live Action Learning)

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Put aside the use of religion as a foundation in the video, the point is the only way information becomes useful and or conducive to action (add to that skills and behaviors and we have the troika of what any course or instructor needs to impart) is to repeat the elements until they become internalized and habituated.

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CORPORATE INSTRUCTION IS STILL DISCONNECTED FROM MILLENNIAL LEARNING STYLES – A LIST BASED ON OBSERVATIONS IN THE WORKPLACE

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It bears remembering we are in business of transmitting only three things: knowledge, skills, and behaviors. So, with a grudging acceptance of what had to be learned, skills absorbed only if they had immediate utility, and behaviors, well…let’s just say the millennials I was working with and around were not among the receptive.

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Overcoming Generation Differences When Building Learning: Part 2

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If knowledge, skills and behaviors are to be transmitted, absorbed and used than instructional design should seek balance. Ultimately, the learning designer has to make everyone happy if information transfer is to take place. Elements that ‘favor’ one group more than another will always be necessary.

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PARDON MY SIN

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In general, these were post-war attitudes and behaviors. This is a new kind of behavior attuned to the heavily digitized world. In East Flatbush, my grandmother had a Readers Digest subscription and their book series as well, and Grandpa devoured anything a good American should read. Why such reverence for the written word?

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GAMIFICATION – PLAYING AT (NOT) LEARNING

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Its parallel in the public school universe is extrinsic reward schemes granted to students for showing up for class on time, good behavior and completing homework. I have a wonderful cliff near my house they can be lobbed off. In other words…as I see it, bribery. (I I know this is contentious).