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I am allergic to uneffective meetings! They suck the energy out of me 😵. I have also coached many leaders on meeting managment and I found this article useful in summing up how to create a safe frame for fruitful, honest and effective discussions. Have a read yourself and see what you think!

Make Your Meetings a Safe Space for Honest Conversation More freedom leads to more candor.

Attention is crucial for learning, as it helps to sort what is important to save and what is not. «Research has suggested that mindfulness and exercise can both have beneficial effects on attention. You could argue that martial arts are a combination of both – active sports that involve aspects of meditation and mindfulness.»

Martial arts can improve your attention span and alertness long term – new study Martial arts help boost both brain and body.

This article underlines my previous post about learning. This teacher gets it👏🏼; learning doesn’t happen when students sit passive and copy some power point into their books or read a passage. Learning happens when you reflect out loud, DO something physical with the info, writing it down, combine it with something visual, and put it straight into practice. This is not just true for students, but also for employees who are sent to expensive courses to learn a new skill. They come back and say it was great. But ask them again in 3 weeks and they remember zero. Nothing! Very expensive investment. Even wasteful.

To Learn, Students Need to DO Something Too often, we're expecting students to learn material without asking them to do much of anything with it. Why is this a problem? Where did it come from? And how can we fix it?