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Mindfulness for Leaders

The Performance Improvement Blog

The recent popularity of mindfulness in the West is generally considered to have been initiated by Jon Kabat-Zinn. [7] Pasick warns: If you are not ready to make significant changes in your life, my advice is not to read this book. A slightly different definition comes from Psychology Today : .

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Focusing on culture, values, and fit in the current recruiting landscape

Inquisiq

That advice is crucial today in the field of human resources. If not, this can be a warning sign of a lack of cultural fit. We’ve had precious little of it the past couple of years—but we sometimes forget that things weren’t exactly standing still before the pandemic. What’s your approach to problem-solving?”

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Learning Technologies London 2020 Highlights

anewspring

I won’t repeat the trends David presented, just his additional advice. His first warning is very crucial: ‘How can I dictate to you what the trends are without knowing your context and environment?’. So the advice is to always check if any trend makes sense and how in your specific context.

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9 Ways to Improve Your Course Completion Rate

LearnDash

If improving your completion rate were easy, then the general concern over the dropout rate would be a thing of the past. Don’t spring it on your learners without warning. Learners who don’t complete their course aren’t telling their friends about it, and they’re probably not coming back for more.

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5 Online Course Promotion Tactics to Avoid

LearnDash

My advice is to pick one or two and dedicate your time to those. As a general rule-of-thumb: anything that seems to promise great gains for little effort probably belongs in the “scammy” category. This same warning applies to the hosting companies that have SEO upsells for an extra $29/month. The result?

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Hacked: A Descent into the Malware Inferno

Jay Cross

Jane had posted a warning that my sites had been hacked in the night. When I tried to log on to my blog, I was confronted with this warning notice: Google issues alerts like this to warn visitors of malicious sites. They are generally very helpful. Sites that linked to internettime.com were receiving warnings.

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Optimising your presentations for people with colour blindness

BrightCarbon

Colour has always been powerful; from warning us which berries to avoid, to establishing iconic global brands. We also have loads of general design advice to get you started on the path to PowerPoint greatness, like this post on creating effective presentations with the wow factor. . References and further reading.

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