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Hyper-Learning Mini-Diagnostic
I invite you to take this Hyper-Learning Mini- Diagnostic. These questions will help you determine your opportunities to improve your learning skills.
Visualizing Workplace Conversations
I believe the #1 determiner of success in the Digital Age from both an individual and an organizational perspective will be one’s ability to consistently have “High-Quality Making-Meaning Conversations”…
A Hyper-Learning Book Club Invitation
I invite you to consider beginning your Hyper-Learning Journey by creating a Hyper-Learning Book Club made up of a small team (2-4 people)…
Daily Intentions
…The choices are timeless. I ask myself: do I need to start here each day? Do I need to be deliberate?
The Power of “Thank You”
In less than a minute you can bring joy to another person at no cost to you…
The “Why” of Hyper-Learning
Why is Hyper-Learning so important? Because it is how we will have meaningful work in the Digital Age.
The “How” of Hyper-Learning
How will we add value in the Digital Age? How will we ‘outsmart’ the technology? There are three types of human activities that will differentiate us from smart technology.
The 5 Steps of the Hyper-Learning Journey
These are the skills that you will need in order to excel and have meaningful work in the Digital Age. This book teaches you how to do that!
Positive Emotions Are the Super Accelerator of Hyper-Learning
Many of us – especially us males – were raised to believe that emotions do not belong in the workplace and that emotions get in the way of high performance. Well, that is wrong! The science is clear…
The 5 Principles of NewSmart
Many of us learned in school that being smart was determined primarily by making the highest test scores by making the fewest mistakes. Many of us have our ego wrapped up in that definition of smart.
“Inner Peace” Is the Key Enabler of Hyper-Learning
Inner Peace is the foundational building block for becoming a Hyper-Learner. Inner Peace is an internal quietness or stillness that enables you to be fully present in the moment with an open and non-judgmental mind and a lack of self-absorption
“Hyper-Learning” Is How You Stay Relevant in The Digital Age
Hyper-Learning is a way for you to stay relevant and have meaningful work in the Digital Age. Hyper-Learning is high quality continuous learning, unlearning, and relearning at the speed of change.
Hyper-Learning: Becoming an Explorer
Do you remember when you learned to ride a bicycle? Think back to that time.How did you feel? Scared? Excited? Both?
Slowing Down — The Power of Choice
The workplace of today is generally design to produce efficiency in the pursuit of better, faster and cheaper. Everybody that I know feels pressure to do more and more in the workplace.
The Hyper-Learning Journey Requires Daily Practices
People start out with the best of intentions. Most begin their journeys using some practices and working on one or two behaviors, but then life gets busy at work and/or home and so they skip a day, and then over time they are skipping more days, and eventually they are skipping all days.
Hyper-Learning Is Behavioral
One of the unique aspects of this book is its focus on behaviors. Good intentions are not enough. It all comes down to how you behave. It is through behaviors that we act.
“Otherness” Is How Hyper-Learning Happens
The Science of Adult Learning is clear: no one can attain excellence by themselves. Almost all learning comes from having candid respectful conversations with others who have different views and life experiences than you.
The Key That Unlocks Hyper-Learning: Having High-Quality, Making-Meaning Conversations
A High-Quality, Making-Meaning Conversation is a mutual conversation where each person is striving to be understood by the other and where each person is striving to understand the other.