What keeps you up at night as a manager?
Are you worried about hitting your numbers? How to boost the results of lower performers? What about how to keep top performers motivated? We often believe that the most effective way to respond to these concerns is to directly tell our employees what to do. Directing a team is certainly one way to achieve your goals. No one wants another checklist task that they have to complete. The challenge is how to shift someone’s response from “I have to” to “I want to.” The vertical axis measures emotional connection. On the horizontal axis, we have content. Looking at the four quadrants, most of us default to Inform and Direct as a way to get things done. We worked with a client at a financial services company who had a direct report, let’s call him Bill, who was not well liked. After many dead ends, Bill’s manager shifted her approach. In another example, a client had grown substantially through a series of acquisitions over the span of three years. ANVC (Almost Nonviolent Communication) Cartoons.
14 Bloom's Taxonomy Posters For Teachers. 14 Brilliant Bloom’s Taxonomy Posters For Teachers by TeachThought Staff Bloom’s Taxonomy is a useful tool for assessment design, but using it only for that function is like using a race car to go to the grocery–a huge waste of potential.
In an upcoming post we’re going to look at better use of Bloom’s taxonomy in the classroom, but during research for that post it became interesting how many variations there are of the original work. While a handful of the charts below only show aesthetic changes compared to others, most are concept maps of sorts–with graphic design that signifies extended function (power verbs), detail (clear explanations), or features of some sort (Bloom’s Taxonomy tasks by level). The follow simple, student-centered Bloom’s graphics were created by helloliteracy! The following “Bloom’s pinwheel” comes from Kelly Tenkley and ilearntechnology.com: MAP: Divorce Rates Around The World. Intelligent Energy Projects. NATURBILDPORTAL: Iceland winter 2014. This trip was in my mind for a very long time, but I never managed to go.
Some old friends know, that I was for a whole summer on Iceland doing geomorphological research. It was a long time ago and I always wanted to go back. But why winter? This year we have a peak in aurora borealis activity, but I wanted to go to a destination with more options but aurora during the night. The Quest to Create the Perfect Map - Uri Friedman. 27 Incredibly Creative Print Ads You'll Love. With how often each of us are online or using our mobile phones, you would think that print advertising is an antiquated artwork that no one pays real attention to.
You’d be wrong, though. We found 27 of the most stunning or clever print ad campaigns out there. They are seriously impressive, even though they are completely static (unlike most of the ads we see online). THIS is advertising. 1. Serviceplan Hamburg / München, Germany 2. Cerebro Y&R, Panama 3. DDB, Spain 4. DraftFCB, Germany 5. Y&R Paris 6. Buzz in a Box, Brussels, Belgium Jung von Matt, Hamburg, Germany 8. LG&F, Brussels, Belgium 9. Jung von Matt/Alster, Hamburg, Germany 10. Grey, Toronto, Canada Saatchi & Saatchi Russia, Moscow, Russia 12. Publicis, Singapore 13. Richter7, Salt Lake City, USA 14. DDB, Sydney, Australia 15. New Moment New Ideas Company Y&R, Belgrade, Serbia 16. Terremoto Propaganda, Curitiba, Brazil. Etsy - Your place to buy and sell all things handmade, vintage, and supplies.
Freebies - Keep Calm Posters-For Thanksgiving and Christmas. The "Keep Calm" art is so popular!
I thought you might like some for your home. Just click on the picture and save onto your computer. (Sorry, no source available for the one below) This obviously is not Keep Calm art but I just liked it-what a great reminder for us all. We really are blessed! Have you bought your favorite frame(s) so that you can change out the artwork for each holiday yet? Here's one for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Here's another one for Thanksgiving. Both of these are also great for November. Keep calm and jingle on...What a good one!
And here's more for Christmas. If you haven't gotten your Fall and Halloween Subway art Click Here We've gathered quite a few for you to download.