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Be mindful in your intention setting. What do you want? You may have already found your tribe.Know thyself. Be self-aware and connected with what is going on within you.No judgement. We are not perfect. Build up those around you instead of breaking them down.Surround yourself with like-minded people.Get over yourself. Only you and your fears prevent you from achieving your goals.Be brave. Put it out there -- start a group. You never know where this might lead and what connections you might make.Be picky.Stay true. Do it your way, work with integrity and kindness.

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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.

Biases cause people to focus too much on success, take action too quickly, try too hard to fit in, and depend too much on experts.

Challenge #2: A fixed mindset. The psychologist Carol Dweck identified two basic mindsets with which people approach their lives: “fixed” and “growth.” People who have a fixed mindset believe that intelligence and talents are largely a matter of genetics; you either have them or you don’t. They aim to appear smart at all costs and see failure as something to be avoided, fearing it will make them seem incompetent.

people who have a growth mindset seek challenges and learning opportunities.

Learning the Network Principles

It required mission-driven leaders who put a premium on establishing and nurturing relationships based on trust, humility, and mutual benefit. It also required a radical change in rewards and affirmations from funders and boards. A new system, consistent with subordinating the organization’s brand to the common interest, became paramount.

common interest that placed the mission at the center

This paper is so important because it combines 225 individual research studies through a technique called meta-analysis.

active approaches privilege “what the student does”. Courses built around active learning require students to spend class time engaged in meaningful tasks that lead to learning. These tasks might be online or face-to-face; solo or in a group; theoretical or applied. Most of our popular learning and teaching buzzwords at the moment are active approaches: peer instruction, problem-based learning, and flipping the classroom are all focused on students spending precious class time doing, not listening.

Of course, lectures will only get you so far, and individual teaching by ‘apprenticeship’ supported by self-directed study remain necessary for learning specialized and high level skills.

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when anyone can be their own publisher, we see more and more examples of poor writing skills both in print and on the web.  Poor writing skills create poor first impressions and many readers will have an immediate negative reaction if they spot a spelling or grammatical mistake

Writing in the Workplace

You have to be together long enough to get over the academic pose ("Heh, I’m the expert here") and learn to listen. Love is important, and often overlooked. Love makes it possible for the writer whose work is being tested to accept criticism gracefully, since she knows it is meant in love. Men don’t grasp it, usually. They are so busy competing that they don’t realize that what actually works is cooperation. Whoops — sorry: gender candor alert.

We found clear and consistent evidence that women and ethnic minorities who promote diversity are penalized in terms of how others perceive their competence and effectiveness

While one adult learner may be well versed on how to search for resources online, another may have very little experience using the Internet.

Survey your audience beforehand to determine any technical knowledge limitations they may have, as well as to assess their education levels.

As we get older, we tend to gravitate more toward learning experiences that offer some sort of social development benefit.

“If you're not continuously adapting and changing and embracing… if you don't have a culture of agility within your company to adapt to these changes, you're not going to be successful,” he said.