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Personal Branding Is A Leadership Requirement, Not a Self-Promotion Campaign - Forbes - 0 views

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  • A personal brand is the total experience of someone having a relationship with who you are and what you represent as an individual; as a leader. 
  • If your teammates and/or colleagues don’t know what your personal brand is, the fault is yours and not theirs. Having a personal brand is a leadership requirement.  It enables you to be a better leader, a more authentic leader that can create greater overall impact.  In fact, those who have defined and live their personal brand will more naturally demonstrate executive presence and as such may find themselves advancing more quickly at work
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The New Résumé: It's 140 Characters - WSJ.com - 0 views

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  • "This is a new era where everyone needs to have a voice, and you want to leave a digital trail of yourself," says Ms. Siff.
  • After recruiters and job seekers find each other over Twitter, more traditional means of hiring usually take over: Candidates may tweet a link to a résumé or a more complete social-media profile, followed by phone or in-person interviews.
  • A tweet, she explains, "is the new elevator pitch."
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  • "I watch people interact, learn what their positions are, who their best friends on Twitter are, whether they have a sense of humor. From that you can get a pretty good picture," she says.
  • Fed up with traditional recruiting sites and floods of irrelevant résumés, some recruiters are turning to the social network to post jobs, hunt for candidates and research applicants.
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IN OUR SCHOOLS: Common Core a 'monumental shift' | Cincinnati.com | cincinnati.com - 0 views

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  • We’re all going to be literacy teachers,” said Patricia Fong, a chief academic administrator for Lakota schools. “We’ll all be teaching students how to read, write, and how to listen and speak within (our) content areas.”
  • The clear, alarming picture that emerges … is that while the reading demands of college, workforce training programs and citizenship have held steady or risen over the past 50 years or so, K–12 texts have, if anything, become less demanding,” the Common Core document states.
  • “These aren’t more rigorous tests; they’re more honest tests,”
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The Five Dimensions of Learning-Agile Leaders - Forbes - 0 views

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  • At the same time, we need to have the confidence to make decisions on the spot, even in the absence of compelling, complete data.  The qualities needed at the top—openness, authentic listening, adaptability—also indicate that leaders need to be comfortable with and able to embrace the “grayness” that comes from other people’s ideas or situations that arise.
  • Learning Agility is a reliable indicator of leadership potential because learning agile people “excel at absorbing information from their experience and then extrapolating from those to navigate unfamiliar situations.
  • In short, Learning Agility is the ability to learn, adapt, and apply ourselves in constantly morphing conditions.
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  • Problem Solvers; Thought Leaders; Trailblazers; Champions; Pillars; Diplomats; and Energizers. The researchers wrote: “People who are learning agile: Seek out experiences to learn from; enjoy complex problems and challenges associated with new experiences because they have an interest in making sense of them; perform better because they incorporate new skills into their repertoire. A person who is learning agile has more lessons, more tools, and more solutions to draw on when faced with new business challenges.” (Hallenbeck, Swisher, and Orr, July 2011)
  • Mental Agility
  • People Agility
  • Change Agility
  • Results Agility:
  • Self-Awareness
  • The world of leadership belongs to the most learning agile
  • To succeed in our volatile, complex, ambiguous world, we have no choice but to master our ability to adapt and learn.
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Recipe for high-school success: be curious, work late, ignore the textbooks - The Globe... - 0 views

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  • High-school textbooks are devices that regurgitate the universally accepted and least debated ideas from the field of science and technology, almost placing us in an isolated prism where we learn to accept knowledge.
  • our second biggest obstacle lies in the method of evaluation we have accepted to assess all students. I feel that much of our attention is channelized towards evaluating the amount of knowledge a student possesses. This focus would be better shifted if we start to question what the individual is able to do with their knowledge and to what extent they can they apply their learning toward writing textbooks of their own.
  • ack on the assembly line, our society didnʼt need innovators and thinkers shaping a shared vision for the field of their expertise. Now that weʼre getting trained for jobs which potentially donʼt exist today, itʼs crucial for educators to turn their attention to building the right aptitude just as much as they focus on instilling the informational aspects.
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  • The important moral is to simply keep trying until you find a passion worth working long hours even over rough nights.
  • best goal a young high-school student can set is to gain a balance between a wide range of skill sets; any and all of the skills can help them succeed when they eventually find their niche.
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My Little (Global) School - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The best schools, the study found, have strong fundamentals and cultures that believe anything is possible with any student: They “work hard to choose strong teachers with good content knowledge and dedication to continuous improvement.” They are “data-driven and transparent, not only around learning outcomes, but also around soft skills like completing work on time, resilience, perseverance — and punctuality.” And they promote “the active engagement of our parents and families.”
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      How do we do in these areas?
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