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What Improv Can Teach Your Team About Creativity And Collaboration | Fast Company | Bus... - 0 views

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  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 19 Dec 13
     
    By Ken Blanchard and Scott Blanchard Shared by Bree Groff, MSLOC Student, on Twitter - @BreeABerman
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Five Ways to Improve Employee Engagement Now - 0 views

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  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 11 Jan 14
     
    Gallup Business Journal by Robyn Reilly January 7, 2014 Only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged at work. Managers everywhere can help solve this problem -- and reap the benefits of higher employee engagement. Shared by Sonya Perez-Lauterbach, MSLOC student via Twitter
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You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help. - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

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  • Last year he and a team of colleagues reported the results of a National Science Foundation-backed experiment that combined meditation with multitasking. The subjects were human-resource managers. Some got meditation training, and others did not. They were then asked to complete tasks, such as scheduling a meeting, amid a barrage of interruptions from e-mail, instant messages, phone calls, and knocks on the door.
  • The results: Those who had received meditation training were less fragmented in their work, switching tasks less frequently and spending more time on each one. They also showed less stress and better memory. The
  • Ulrich Mayr, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, studies multitasking. When Stanford convened a conference on that subject in 2009, he emphasized that "multitasking is actually rapid task switching, since the human brain does just one thing at a time."
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  • To understand the ideas, students need to link them to things they already know, creating a network of associations that Mr. Mayr describes as "a rich knowledge structure." That happens only if they pay attention and think about the lesson.
  • All content in long-term memory is represented in two ways: "as a sense of familiarity on the one hand, and whether or not you truly understand it."
  • People often mistake familiarity for understanding. They open the textbook after getting home from a lecture, and they recognize the material. They think: I get this. Then they take a test—and bomb it.
  • Mr. Nass, of Stanford, has found that people who chronically multitask are less able to focus and worse at managing working memory. They're also worse at switching between tasks.
  • Supertaskers"—a tiny sliver of humanity who multitask with ease—as well as a report from that 2009 multitasking seminar at Stanford.
  • Information and Contemplation: a Reading List A selection of readings from a course taught by David M. Levy at the University of Washington
  • Kimberly Scott on 20 Jan 14
     
    Using meditation in the classroom to improve focus. Summarizes research on multi-tasking with technology. Includes reading recommendations.
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The Future of Work Needs You | Chicago Ideas Week - 0 views

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  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 20 Dec 13
     
    Renetta McCann, Leo Burnett Chief Talent Officer and MSLOC alumnae reminds us that at one point in time, those who worked were looked down upon. Now, we wear our jobs on our sleeves like badges of honor. When did our views on work change, and how can we reframe what's expected from an office environment to improve our professional experiences?
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A change management checklist - Leading organizational change - 0 views

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  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 02 Apr 14
     
    March 28, 2014 By Torben Rick Shared by Sandy Schwan, MSLOC alumna "Organisations must become increasingly able to change quickly and easily. The business must be flexible yet capable of implementing and sustaining organisational change. Deciding what to change is one thing. Making changes stick is another. To improve your odds, use this change management checklist:"
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Find the Coaching in Criticism - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

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shared by MSLOC Northwestern University on 07 May 14 - No Cached
  • MSLOC Northwestern University on 07 May 14
     
    Author(s): Sheila Heen adn Douglas Stone February 2014 Shared by: Andee Weinfurter
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