The journey with online learning continues

Our organization, WD-40 Company, is like many others—trying to take advantage of the developing technologies that claim to be able to offer learning experiences remotely, online, in digitized content that supposedly increases the efficiency and effectiveness of education.  We’ve employed some of the tools available to good effect, but we don’t rely on the digital, remote learning mode as our primary method.  There are limitations that don’t address our core objectives for such programs.  The issue boils down to the fact that humans are a critical ingredient to the process.

 

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Time to kill the ANTS

Please enjoy this wonderful guest article by Roxanne Casebier:

I experienced something incredible over the past decade of my life.  I have grown a family, grown in my career and grown in my personal life as a wife, friend, daughter, neighbor and citizen of the world.  Many painful and beautiful lessons learned have brought me to a poignant cuesta where I now observe a simple truth: I am my greatest influence.  Forget about the supporters, the naysayers and everyone in between.  It’s just me…and my strength to recognize and fend off the forward marching army of ANTS: automatic negative thoughts. 

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Selling the sizzle

At the Corporate Directors Forum conference in January here in San Diego, we heard from John Carreyrou, the author of Bad Blood:  Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.  I picked up the book from the gift table, and took it home to read.

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Who’s in your mirror?

By Serra Sewitch-Posey

I was 20 years old and on a Greyhound bus from Seattle to Denver, for no real reason other than I had taken a semester off from Chico State and wanted to head East for once. The drive took several days, and at one point during the trip we were stopped at some random town somewhere, it was night, and the interior lights went on. I caught a glimpse of my reflection in the window across the aisle, and after so much time of being alone among strangers I was struck by the familiarity of my own face and overcome with an aching love for myself. I suddenly came to the realization that one day I would be gone from his earth and I missed myself fiercely, wishing that I could stay until I decided, on my own terms, when to go.

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