Improve your Thinking and Learning (July 2011)
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Management and personal skills development hints, tips and special offers focused on developing
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Improve your Thinking and Learning
Thinking and learning is something that we do every day - it could be 'on the job' or through reading an article or research. In this newsletter we'll look at some simple tools and techniques you can use to fine tune and maximise your thinking and learning skills...
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Is Our Potential to Learn Limited?
A philosophical question, debated by some of the world's greatest thinkers. Jean Paul Sartre, for example, argued that an individual's personal development could be limited by other people as they act in ways that interfere with a learner's ability to absorb and retain information. This scenario, however, only suggests that humans may fail to reach their true potential, and that sometimes this happens through no fault of their own.
Read more...
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The 'Illuminating' Brain Workout...
1. What word can you form from the words 'ICE AND OUT?'
Clue: It is very important for us especially when getting a good job.
2. In what sport do the winners go backward while the losers go forward?
Answer at the bottom of this email...
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Mind Mapping - the Serious Business Tool
If you are one of those people who still takes notes in meetings, or you use notes as an aide memoir for training, for course revision or even as a record of ongoing project activity, then it really is time for a personal breakthrough in productivity. Cut down on your labour, improve your memory and use Mind Mapping.
» Find out more in the full article here...
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"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." Clay P. Bedford
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"You learn something every day if you pay attention." Ray Le Blond
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Get more inspirational quotations at
www.illumine.co.uk/inspirational-quotes
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Professional Study - More Important than Rock and Roll?
Of course many of us are required to study - and to keep on studying. We know that qualifications give us an edge and we want to develop a wider portfolio.
So what's the best way to study? We don't mean the best way to get through exams. We mean the most efficient way to capture and recall knowledge as well as the best way to juggle all the priorities we have.
» Find out in this article...
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The Nature of Perception and How it Affects Thinking and Learning...
Although we have five senses, sensory perceptions are generally grouped into three areas: kinaesthetic, visual, and auditory. Kinaesthetic perception, also referred to as tactile perception, includes the sense of touch. Tactile perception is important in many domains of early childhood learning, but as children grow older, most of their learning will take place through visual and auditory perception.
» Read the article here...
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FREE GUIDE - Do more with less
This guide is intended to provide an insight for managers and staff at all levels to be able to continue to 'do more with less'. The tools and techniques discussed will help you to learn, maximise that learning and develop throughout your career and life.
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Central London courses and workshops coming up...
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13 September 2011: Effective Speed Reading, www.illumine.co.uk/read
14 September 2011: Mind Mapping for Business, www.illumine.co.uk/bmap
27-28 September 2011: Think on Your Feet® - verbal communication skills, www.illumine.co.uk/toyf
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'Illuminating' Brain Workout answers:
1. Education
2. Tug of War
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The next newsletter: Creative Thinking for Business
Creative thinking is important in business as it provides the solutions required to overcome challenges and problems, leading to growth in the business. This newsletter takes a look at how you can make your organsiation more creative by releasing the creativity in yourself and your employees...
... Don't miss it!
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This newsletter is produced by the Illumine Marketing Team and edited by Richard Evans. The information presented in this newsletter remains the copyright of Illumine Training and its respective writers and authors. You can post these articles to your blog and website as long as it is not for commercial use. You must reference this back to Illumine Training and the Illumine website (www.illumine.co.uk). Images used have been leased and permission should be sought from the image owners.
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