Inspiring Insights
Upon reflection, awesome is a word I use way too much. A recent visit to Arizona enabled me to truly experience awesome as a palpable phenomenon as the Grand Canyon swept before us. A few days earlier a trip to the Lowell Observatory exposed me to the awesomeness of human [...]
User testing is a vital part of designing and delivering E-learning but I'm often asked, 'What's user testing?' Instead of answering that question, I often start with what it's not. What is NOT user testing? User testing is NOT about gathering the wishes and personal preferences of content or technical [...]
Are you a leadership superhero or a leader doing the best you can under ever increasing pressure? To get everything done that needs to be done in busy environments, educational leaders often feel like they have to be superheroes to get the job done. Not to mention the effort needed [...]
What is mentoring seems a pretty straightfoward question. In fact, these responses to that question might sound familiar, maybe even traditional: a one to one relationship, which develops over a period time and is built on shared values a relationship where a more experienced person supports a less experienced person [...]
Are you a spark finder or the fire spark? My father used to say, “you can’t always believe what you read.” When it came to reading literature on inspiring leadership as a developing leader, I often believed what I read. One thing that stuck in my head when reading a [...]
There is a body of thought promoting the notion of 'carefrontation'. It has been described as the art of delivering constructive, compassionate feedback to people as a way to explore alternatives to ineffective behaviour. In my research on leading to inspire others, one inspiring leader used the term 'tough empathy' [...]
