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Bruce - My email is lou@russellmartin.com. If you'd like, email me your contact info and I will give you a shout should I wander into your locale. Lou Russell

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Is Leadership a Privilege?

Bruce, I hope we meet at some point... you and I share very similar leadership philosophies. I like your holiday example as well. A quote I like is "Leadership is a serious meddling in people's life". Robert Greenleaf has also written a great deal about the Servant Leader (more recently, Ken Blanchard has written a book with this title also). He believes that as leaders, we are servants of the people we lead and we hold their development 'in trust'. We are not superior to them or 'over' them. That doesn't mean we are buddies - also a problem. As… >>>

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Creating a Multi-sensory Learning Environment

Donald: That's an interesting experiment. I'd love to see what happens. Have you tried playing very soft instrumental classical music 60-80 beats per minute (baroque is best) as people come in? It might also help to have assigned seats to break up more unruly pairings. Any change in the environment will be noticed and knock things off a bad pattern. Lou Russell

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Growing Yourself as a Learning Facilitator

Donald, What a great benefit for great faculty. Taking the time to learn and grow is a critical part of doing a great job helping others learn. Lou Russell

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Growing Yourself as a Learning Facilitator

Raymond, That's true with the really great faculty. However, some people learn a little and then get very protective about what they know. They stop learning and this does not translate into a great experience for the students. Whenever I feel the urge to close my eyes to new research or something that contradicts something I've believed, I try to push myself through, and it is always worth it. Lou Russell

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Creating a Multi-sensory Learning Environment

Raymond - What kind of music to you like to use? Do you use different music for different environments? How easily have you found royalty free music? Check out Gary Lamb, Chris Brewer and Lindt for some great music with no copyright issues. Lou Russell

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Maximizing Retention Through Memory

Raymond, First, sorry this has taken me a bit of time to respond to... I'm very behind in my emails. I love this idea. I do similar things by introducing terms in my course objectives and then asking them to pick their top 3 course objectives. It's a great use of cognitive dissonance. Lou Russell

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Creating a Multi-sensory Learning Environment

Lawanda: Beautiful job explaining how to make an inviting and engaging environment for learning. In the Career College setting, you may not get to much time to prep / take down within a classroom, so your use of dry erase markers is very practical. Think about finding some great quotes to rotate through the different days they are in class relating to your materials, or just for one. One my of favorite is "One Small Voice can teach the world a song." -Elmo Great job! Lou

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Growing Yourself as a Learning Facilitator

LaWanda: Welcome to the course! I agree that confidence is important and confidence comes from great preparation. A great learning facilitator also has to be humble, always learning how to improve their classroom delivery, and never feeling like they know it all! Lou Russell www.lplusearn.com lou@russellmartin.com

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Is Leadership a Privilege?

It has been said that leadership is a privilege, not a position. Do you agree or disagree? Why?