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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 26 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • concluding that noncognitive skills like character, dependability and perseverance are as important as cognitive achievement. They can be taught, he said, yet American schools don’t necessarily do so.
  • They assumed it would be technical expertise. Instead, it was people who made time for one-on-one meetings, helped employees work through problems and took an interest in their lives.
  • The extent to which jobs required social skills grew 24 percent between 1980 and 2012, he found, while jobs requiring repetitive tasks, like garbage collecting, and analytical tasks that don’t necessarily involve teamwork, like engineering, declined.
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  • many business and medical schools, students are assigned to small groups to complete their work. So-called flipped classrooms assign video lectures before class and reserve class for discussion or group work. The idea is that traditional lectures involve too little interaction and can be done just as well online.
  • whether they “play well with others.”
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 26 Mar 17
     
    need for social skills in work that will be here in future according to Claire Cain Miller, October 16, 2015, NYTimes
Bevan Rogel

Retiree Start-Ups With Age and Youth as Partners - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Bevan Rogel on 10 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Bevan Rogel on 10 Sep 13
     
    Encore Entrepreneurs/ working with younger generations
  • Bevan Rogel on 10 Sep 13
     
    This is a fantastic article for a number of reasons- first of all Elizabeth Isele is the person I am co presenting with at the Postive Aging Conferece.. i am developing a great relationship with her- she is brining the beta test of her new program to St Pete/ Eckerd College- with our Encore Academy students!. SEcond- Michele this is where we can start pulling into the intergenerational opportunities- young and old entrepreneurs working together !!
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Path to Happy Employment, Contact by Contact on LinkedIn - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 06 May 15 - No Cached
  • It is, essentially, the networking breakfast moved into a virtual world, and available virtually to the entire world.
  • First, the basics: LinkedIn allows users to create a compelling text-and-multimedia narrative of their life and work.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 06 May 15
     
    Really good article on how to use LinkedIn well, December 4, 2013, in NYT, Personal Tech column
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

When Did We Get So Old? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 09 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 09 Sep 14
     
    article by Michele Willens, August 30, 2014 on aging baby boomers coming to terms with "being the oldest person in the room." Issues: friends are dying, joints are aching, memories are failing, financial issues with forced retirement, unemployment, children needing money and possibly a bed, dependent parents, most unpleasantness is looking around and suddenly being the oldest. Better if sense of self is not related to age
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Set Back by Recession, and Shut Out of Rebound - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ers-age-bias-is-pervasive.html

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 29 Aug 13
     
    Compelling story about baby boomers who are trying to help themselves within Neighbors-helping-Neighbors U.S.A., a volunteer networking organization with 28 chapters in New Jersey serving 1,200 unemployed, mainly white-collar, baby boomers. These baby boomers are not able to find new employment that comes close to their previous work. "What he does recommend is lowering expectations. "You're not likely to be the department head," he said, "so sell yourself as a team player who will work with younger people and help train them." "
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 29 Aug 13
     
    Compelling story about baby boomers who are trying to help themselves within Neighbors-helping-Neighbors U.S.A., a volunteer networking organization with 28 chapters in New Jersey serving 1,200 unemployed, mainly white-collar, baby boomers. These baby boomers are not able to find new employment that comes close to their previous work.
  • Bevan Rogel on 31 Aug 13
     
    Doris this is a great story and it definitely validates that what we are doing can be a resource for those in need of a job. I do want to include a solild program on job searching and networking/ resume/interviewing etc. I also believe this is a bigger issue for our society- so glad to read about what congress is working on. Thank you for sharing this.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Liberation of Growing Old - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 05 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 05 Jan 15
     
    great article on liberation of growing old by Anne Karpf, Jan. 3, 2015, NYT.
Lisa Levinson

You're How Old? We'll Be in Touch - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Lisa Levinson on 05 Sep 16
     
    A good article from the 9/4/16 Sunday New York Times by Ashton Applewhite on how ageism impacts positive results int he workplace, and how we are going to need a women's movement" type of social action to combat age segregation and discrimination.
Lisa Levinson

Nonprofit Work After Retirement? Maybe You Can Make It Pay - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Lisa Levinson on 31 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • Lisa Levinson on 31 Jul 16
     
    New York Times article on the transition to nonprofit world after retirement. Mentions Encore!Hartford training, and the kinds of jobs people have gotten using their corporate experience and putting it to good use.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How Not to Be a Networking Leech: Tips for Seeking Professional Advice - The New York T... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 27 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 27 Sep 15
     
    Article by Margaret Morford on September 27, 2015 on networking protocl--making it convenient, not disagreeing with advice as proffered, reciprocating their generosity or trying to, protecting their intellectual property, organizing the time together, etc.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The New Romantics in the Computer Age - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • What are the activities that we humans, driven by our deepest nature or by the realities of daily life, will simply insist be performed by other humans?Those tasks are mostly relational. Being in a position of authority or accountability. Being a caregiver. Being part of a team. Transactional jobs are declining but relational jobs are expanding.
  • Empathy becomes a more important workplace skill, the ability to sense what another human being is feeling or thinking.
  • The ability to function in a group also becomes more important
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  • combine technical knowledge with social awareness
  • I’m not sure we’re about to be overrun with waves of Byronic romantics, but we have been living through an unromantic period and there’s bound to be a correction. People eventually want their souls stirred, especially if the stuff regarded as soft and squishy turns out in a relational economy to be hard and practical.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Sep 15
     
    David Brooks on the "soft and squishy" attributes that are becoming important in combination with technical skills. September 2015
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