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I still remember that during the attended course, we are also encouraged to ponder upon various motivational posters. They are easy to get even at the daily mart at any petrol stations.

 The following posters are among the popular that can be founded.

Tags: friendship, motivation, poster, posters, success, teamwork

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When mentioning about Mind Mapping, the name Tony Buzan is always giving a synonym. According to him, Mind Mapping is a powerful tool especially in training. Mind mapping works through different angle in supporting learning experience.

 Mind mapping is proved to support the following scopes:

• Radiant Thinking
• Memory
• Creativity
• Learning
• Teaching
• Planning and Organising
• Presenting
• Group Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Science

Historically, as published on Wikipedia:

Mind maps (or similar concepts) have been used for centuries in learning, brainstorming, memory, visual thinking, and problem solving by educators, engineers, psychologists, and others. Some of the earliest examples of mind maps were developed by Porphyry of Tyros, a noted thinker of the 3rd century, as he graphically visualized the concept categories of Aristotle. Philosopher Ramon Llull (1235 - 1315) also used mind maps.

The semantic network was developed in the late 1950s as a theory to understand human learning and developed into mind maps by Allan M. Collins and M. Ross Quillian during the early 1960s. Due to his commitment and published research, and his work with learning, creativity, and graphical thinking, Collins can be considered the father of the modern mind map.^{[citation needed]}

British popular psychology...

Tags: creativity, learning, memory, mind map, teaching, thinking

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Learning will become inproficient when:

Learning process occurs when a new technology or knowledge being transferred and there is a change of behaviour.

However,

There are several factors that people always to take for granted which had led to learning process to be NOT successful as it should.

i)                    Misunderstood words

                  Signs that show a student have come across a misunderstood word:

·        Blank (face)

·        Tired

·        Upset

·        Not interested

·        Take a long time reading

·        Yawning

·        Daydreaming

·        Doodling

Solution: Prepare a dictionary or related references during learning session.        

Whenever a student shows any of the above mentioned signs, ask him if  there is any misunderstood word he is having. Any misunderstood word can be translated by using the provided dictionary.

ii)                   Lack of mass

                  Signs that show a student have come across a...

Tags: confused, lack of mass, learning process, learning proficiency, misunderstood

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(aziyati yusoff) - 21 Jan 2008

In training world, one could not avoid of coming across different approaches of delivery and presentation's styles. Terminologies such as  trainer, coach, counselor and mentor are different in roles but can play its own significant part to training metholodology.

 Mariane L'Ecuyer through web page with url of http://www.crmadvocate.com/required/elix3.pdf , she said "Training imparts concrete knowledge about concrete matters such as products, corporate objectives, tools (hardware and software), and processes. While coaching is more geared towards monitoring and improving how the knowledge learned in training is used."

Most of training institutions consider all the feasible method of training including counselling and mentoring to deliver their business.

Vanessa Emile through her website of http://www.vanessaemile.co.uk/pages/coach.html has outlined the comparison of coaching vs counselling in 16 aspects. The aspects that she focussed are primary life focus, subject focus, model, nature of issue, treatment of past, questions asked, client goals, accountability of goals, relationship, function, training or educational background, style, rate of change, responsibility for outcomes, disclosure, and payment.

Basically she defined coaching as Focuses on a person’s present, in order to help them create actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one’s personal and work...

Tags: coaching, counselling, mentoring, training

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prepared by: Aziyati Yusoff

It is true that most of the blog contents on this web page are adaptations from various resources. The main aim of the journal itself is to share related materials to Training Methodology (as the subject matter).

Like this article of "The Art of Listening", we can find a lot of scholars putting their effective views and show their significance to the importance of this subject.

I would like to take one of the examples written by Brenda Ueland from the www homepage of Dr. Traubman. She said that: "It is through this creative process (the art of listening) that we at once love and are loved". She added with the following main points:

1. When people listen, creative water flows - It is when people really listen to us, with quiet, fascinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way.
2. Women listen better - I think women have this listening faculty more than men. It is not the fault of men. They lose it because of their long habit of striving in business, of self-assertion. And the more forceful men are, the less they can listen...

Tags: listening skill, the art of listening

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