How to embed a Google Doc In Moodle or WordPress
The following video explains how nicely. But in words, Open the Google Doc. Go to File. Go to Publish to Web. Select Embed. Check the box for "Automatically Republish when changes are made." Copy the code and go to the website, e.g. Wordpress or Moodle. On Wordpress,...
An Example of Effective Negotiation #5
Dr. Margaret Ann Neale is a distinguished professor of management and the director of the Influence and Negotiation Strategies Executive Program at Stanford University. She received an email from her dean that she would need to move from teaching five courses to...
A Foolish Mistake Many Young Ministers Make
One of the greatest mistakes that people make in serving God is short-changing their preparation so that they can rush and go to do ministry work. They often think that the time of waiting and learning and growing is not as well spent as the time actually doing...
Great leaders have collaborators, not followers
It is very common today to hear a leadership expert talk about leaders and followers. And for years, I have gone along with it. But recently, it dawned on me. People are never really following you, the leader. They are merely collaborating with the leader so that...
RULER: How to teach Emotional Intelligence to children and adults
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence created the following evidence-based approach for integrating social and emotional learning into schools. The mnemonic to remember them is RULER. RULER helps us teach “soft skills" or the skills of emotional intelligence —...
Decision-Making and Strategy
Strategist, Roger Martin, and former P&G CEO A.G. Lafley say in their book, Playing to Win, that strategy is about choosing to do some things and not other things. This is essentially what wise decision-making is. Wise decision making is choosing to so somethings...
C.O.U.R.A.G.E: How to Build, Rebuild, and Sustain Trust in Your Work and Personal Relationships
We all know that trust is the currency for all effective relationships. It's always been that way from the day the humans first set foot on the planet. Trust is why our hunter-gatherer ancestors created communities. Trust is why city walls were built, to allow those...
The C’s of Communication
The Cs of communication provide a checklist for ensuring that your written and oral communication is clear and effective. You can apply it to your emails, reports, meetings, conference calls ,and presentations so that your audience gets your message. The C's of...
Powerful Ways to Build and Rebuild Trust
We all know that trust is the currency for all effective relationships. But how do we build and rebuild trust? Many researchers and philosophers have written about trust and persuasion. Aristotle spoke of three modes of persuasion in rhetoric: ethos, pathos, and...