It is difficult to start a college, but there is a new method: let a church house an online outlet for a Christian college. Let an education pastor mentor students through. This is the idea of Vishal Mangalwadi, professor in India. Last post, I told you I was game to help you start a school.…
It may not surprise you that I listen to management consultants — because that is very often what I do. Yes, I am a minister and an educator, but very often I am helping administrators in education with their administration. Often they were teachers who were promoted to administration. (Yes, and I also help administrators…
Worked diligently to get your 8 hour pre-service training up. But maybe celebrated too early. Now, we have a glitch in the payment system. Please be patient while I sort this out. Thanks for being willing to be a beta tester. You will be rewarded with some sale prices. Please check back in a couple…
“Tania of Tania’s Tots let me know that the preservice training in a binder that she bought from me was very convenient and very useful. “Tania of Tania’s Tots let me know that the preservice training in a binder that she bought from me was “very convenient and very useful. Yes, definitely, it helped us…
I could use some help. I’m trying – without success – to create an acronym that captures the essence of mentoring. How would you use MENTOR or MENTORING as an acronym? What I have so far needs some work. M. Mission – what are we working to accomplish. Mentoring has focused outcomes. Mentors and proteges […]…
It is graduation time. After the celebration and the well-wishing for our graduating students, let’s take a few minutes to assess where education is. I know, we are all very interested in taking off, going for summer, sitting by a pool; but just a minute, let’s see how we as educators and administrators are doing.…
Remember Henry Ford? He was the business breakthrough of his day. His innovations we depend upon today. What would you life be like without the automobile? Without the assembly line? Here is Henry Ford on the topic of training, but a business owner’s perspective: The only thing worse than training employees and having them leave…
Jack Welch was the CEO of GE. Under his leadership, GE became the most valuable company in the world, measured in market capitalization. Warren Buffet, perhaps the most famous investor of all times, said that other than this book by Jack Welch, no other management book will ever be needed! That got my attention! The…
LISTENING is a huge skill. Clients need to listen to their consultants. If they could listen well enough, then consultants might not be needed. Obviously consultants need to listen wholisitically to clients. Bosses and employees need to listen to each other. All of us need to listen to our bodies/our hearts/ and God. Rushing around,…