First created in 2011, I shared this with the network as a compilation of all the things I have learned working with them and working on my own Worksearch.
Do not let the brain wallow into its comfort zone
Do not let the brain lull into complacency
Do not let your graduation be the end of learning
Do not let old age be the death age of intelligence
Rage and rage against self-induced senility
Harass your brain and keep it sharp
This document provides information about creating and distributing zines. It discusses where to find inspiration for zines, such as online resources and museums. It also describes different processes for making zines, including using pencil, markers, and layout software, then printing and binding. Locations to sell or distribute zines are mentioned, like comic book conventions and local shops. The document advises starting with simple zines and provides tips for improving designs. While making money from zines is difficult, it is presented as a way to explore ideas and share creativity with others.
This document provides guidance on writing an artist's statement or statement of purpose for art school applications. It discusses including information about your artistic style, objectives, inspiration, and future goals. The document recommends structuring the statement in three paragraphs that introduce yourself, provide more details about your work and process, and discuss your aspirations and how the school can help you achieve them. It emphasizes being honest, specific, and tailored to each individual school through research. Overall, the document aims to help applicants concisely yet effectively communicate their passion and vision for art to admissions committees.
Writing Your Artist Statement Without Freaking Out Michael Lawrence
This document provides guidance on writing an artist statement without anxiety. It explains that an artist statement introduces an artist's work, helps audiences understand the work, and invites conversation without making people feel confused or unwelcome. The document recommends being nice to the audience by speaking in an inviting and understandable way. It then presents a basic formula for an artist statement including describing what the artist made, how they made it, why they made it, their overall ideas, and reflections. Finally, it suggests strategies for painless pre-writing and post-writing like using mind maps, asking friends for feedback, and editing tools to draft an artist statement.
The document provides guidance on writing effective artist statements, noting they should serve as an introduction to one's work and concerns through focused self-analysis and reflection rather than justification, biography, or chronology. It recommends preparing by answering questions about motivations and influences before "boiling down" writing through multiple drafts to highlight engaging themes without overuse of florid language or comparisons. The goal is to help orient viewers without explaining the work away.
2 // IDEATION // how can Joe find his passions?Shannon Delaney
The document provides suggestions for how a stakeholder named Joe can discover his passions and interests, which are important for his job search and future. It recommends that Joe engage in self-reflection through activities like journaling, informational interviews with people in different careers, job shadowing, volunteering, internships, traveling, meditation, and making lists of things he enjoys to help uncover his passions.
This document provides an overview of a class on getting published. It discusses writing non-fiction and the hungry market for it. It emphasizes doing research to establish yourself as an expert in your topic. It also discusses writing query letters and book proposals to pitch your work to publishers. Key steps include defining your audience, purpose, and promotion strategy to show publishers how your book will sell. Examples are provided of successful book proposals that secured publishing deals. The document stresses doing thorough due diligence on your topic to prove your work is unique and fills a need before approaching publishers.
The document outlines the writing process for crafting an essay in three sentences:
It begins by providing tips for getting started such as prewriting, developing ideas, and revising rather than procrastinating. Next, it describes various brainstorming techniques like listing, mapping, freewriting, and journalist questions to generate topic ideas. Finally, it discusses the three draft process of a down draft to get ideas down, an up draft to revise and organize, and a dental draft to refine word choice and structure.
Do not let the brain wallow into its comfort zone
Do not let the brain lull into complacency
Do not let your graduation be the end of learning
Do not let old age be the death age of intelligence
Rage and rage against self-induced senility
Harass your brain and keep it sharp
This document provides information about creating and distributing zines. It discusses where to find inspiration for zines, such as online resources and museums. It also describes different processes for making zines, including using pencil, markers, and layout software, then printing and binding. Locations to sell or distribute zines are mentioned, like comic book conventions and local shops. The document advises starting with simple zines and provides tips for improving designs. While making money from zines is difficult, it is presented as a way to explore ideas and share creativity with others.
This document provides guidance on writing an artist's statement or statement of purpose for art school applications. It discusses including information about your artistic style, objectives, inspiration, and future goals. The document recommends structuring the statement in three paragraphs that introduce yourself, provide more details about your work and process, and discuss your aspirations and how the school can help you achieve them. It emphasizes being honest, specific, and tailored to each individual school through research. Overall, the document aims to help applicants concisely yet effectively communicate their passion and vision for art to admissions committees.
Writing Your Artist Statement Without Freaking Out Michael Lawrence
This document provides guidance on writing an artist statement without anxiety. It explains that an artist statement introduces an artist's work, helps audiences understand the work, and invites conversation without making people feel confused or unwelcome. The document recommends being nice to the audience by speaking in an inviting and understandable way. It then presents a basic formula for an artist statement including describing what the artist made, how they made it, why they made it, their overall ideas, and reflections. Finally, it suggests strategies for painless pre-writing and post-writing like using mind maps, asking friends for feedback, and editing tools to draft an artist statement.
The document provides guidance on writing effective artist statements, noting they should serve as an introduction to one's work and concerns through focused self-analysis and reflection rather than justification, biography, or chronology. It recommends preparing by answering questions about motivations and influences before "boiling down" writing through multiple drafts to highlight engaging themes without overuse of florid language or comparisons. The goal is to help orient viewers without explaining the work away.
2 // IDEATION // how can Joe find his passions?Shannon Delaney
The document provides suggestions for how a stakeholder named Joe can discover his passions and interests, which are important for his job search and future. It recommends that Joe engage in self-reflection through activities like journaling, informational interviews with people in different careers, job shadowing, volunteering, internships, traveling, meditation, and making lists of things he enjoys to help uncover his passions.
This document provides an overview of a class on getting published. It discusses writing non-fiction and the hungry market for it. It emphasizes doing research to establish yourself as an expert in your topic. It also discusses writing query letters and book proposals to pitch your work to publishers. Key steps include defining your audience, purpose, and promotion strategy to show publishers how your book will sell. Examples are provided of successful book proposals that secured publishing deals. The document stresses doing thorough due diligence on your topic to prove your work is unique and fills a need before approaching publishers.
The document outlines the writing process for crafting an essay in three sentences:
It begins by providing tips for getting started such as prewriting, developing ideas, and revising rather than procrastinating. Next, it describes various brainstorming techniques like listing, mapping, freewriting, and journalist questions to generate topic ideas. Finally, it discusses the three draft process of a down draft to get ideas down, an up draft to revise and organize, and a dental draft to refine word choice and structure.
The document provides prompts to help brainstorm ideas on various topics. It instructs the reader to come up with at least one idea per page in response to each prompt. Some of the prompts include activities the reader enjoys, things they are interested in or knowledgeable about, places they have traveled, and skills or hobbies they wish to develop. The reader is then asked to review their ideas, select their top three topics of interest, and develop a guiding question for each topic that focuses their research without being too broad or specific.
This document discusses how to become an academic champion and succeed in school. It provides tips for achieving good grades such as aiming for A's and B's, prioritizing schoolwork, and putting effort into classwork and projects. Some potential pitfalls to avoid include letting friends distract you from learning and dropping out of school. The document advises staying in school and exploring extracurricular activities. It shares one student's experience considering alternative schooling but deciding to remain in high school where they have found success and confidence in their studies.
This document outlines the writing process for crafting an essay. It recommends generating ideas through pre-writing techniques like listing, mind mapping, freewriting, and journalist questions before beginning a rough draft. The rough draft should be improved through revision and organization, then carefully edited and proofread. Reading drafts out loud can help identify issues. Writers are advised to thoroughly understand the assignment before starting and check requirements to avoid losing points. Following this process of prewriting, multiple drafts, and revision should result in a successful paper.
This document provides information for students in Mrs. Silveira's 7th grade creative writing class. It outlines classroom expectations such as being prepared with writing materials, participating in daily writing activities and workshops, maintaining a creative writing blog, and avoiding mean behavior which will result in fines. It also describes how student work will be graded and the major final project of either a short story or book of poetry.
This document summarizes Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University. It discusses how Jobs told graduates to follow their passions and trust their instincts. It also analyzed how Jobs captured the audience through humor and humility while sharing personal stories. The document rates Jobs' dynamism and provides tips for public speaking based on his speech.
Fostering Creative Thinking in the ClassroomEduardo Santos
This document discusses fostering creative thinking through classroom activities. It provides examples of talks and research that emphasize the importance of creativity in education. Activities are suggested to help students think creatively, such as having them draw their classroom from different perspectives, create stories from pictures, and explore alternative meanings and contexts for phrases. The conclusion emphasizes that creativity involves thinking without limitations.
This document summarizes a lecture on breaking into the non-fiction book market. It discusses that non-fiction is easier to enter than fiction as it focuses on expertise and timely topics rather than creative storytelling. The lecture provides tips on choosing a subject area, becoming an expert, structuring a book proposal, and writing an effective query letter. Attendees are given online access to workshop materials to help with non-fiction writing.
The document provides various options for job seekers to consider when looking for a new position. It suggests taking a childlike approach by letting one's mind wander and doing fun activities to reconnect with personal interests. It then lists both traditional and unconventional networking strategies, including using online job boards, talking to recent graduates, informational interviews, meetup groups, hiring consultants or other professionals to assist with the search, and producing promotional videos, songs, or commercials. More affordable tactics include using the public library for career resources, taking personality tests, and leveraging alumni connections through informational interviews or the university career center.
How to suck at presenting (and how to avoid it)Steve Talks
Being good at presenting is truly an unfair skill: with so many people out there still doing it in the bad way, it is your way how to stand out from the crowd. Ensure yourself a flawless presentation with a good preparation, design and delivery. No matter if you choose PowerPoint, keynote, prezi or any other slideware: anybody can become a good presenter.
This document provides ideas for repurposing and creating furniture and displays for a school library on a limited budget. It suggests using cardboard, paint, and other low-cost materials to create dividers, tables, seating, shelves, and displays. Many ideas are inspired by visiting other libraries and Maker Faires. Photos show examples of painted bookshelves, table tops, and furniture created from cardboard and crates to transform the library space.
This document contains the notes from a journalism class. It discusses pet peeves, personal branding, and elevator pitches. For homework, students are asked to create 15 and 30 second elevator pitches about themselves on a website and print them out. They are also asked to attend a student organization fair and get information about three organizations that may need public relations help.
The document provides 25 words of writing wisdom from readers of the Writing Frameworks blog. It includes tips such as using specific details instead of flowery language, getting to the point quickly, being yourself and letting your personality shine through, writing in a way that creates pictures in readers' minds, starting writing without overthinking it, and writing what you know while taking risks and playing with your writing. The document also provides photo credits for images related to the tips.
This document provides an overview of strategies and activities used by a middle school librarian to engage tween and teen readers. Some of the key points summarized are:
1) The librarian hosts 27 classes each week in the school library and does various displays and activities to promote reading such as book talks, author visits via Skype, novel studies, and reading contests.
2) Strategies for reader's advisory include shelf talkers, peer-led and teacher-led book talks, catalog-directed recommendations, and maintaining a library blog.
3) Advocacy tips include sharing success stories, writing for newsletters, collaborating with teachers, and highlighting how the library supports learning across subjects.
This document summarizes the concepts from Barbara Sher's book "Refuse to Choose", which presents an approach for people called "scanners" to pursue multiple interests instead of focusing on one. Scanners love learning new things but have difficulty committing to any single topic. The document describes different types of scanners and models for designing careers and life paths that allow scanners to explore various interests through jobs, projects and education that offer flexibility and variety. It provides examples of careers well-suited for scanners and tools they can use to manage multiple pursuits.
This document provides an overview and timeline for a career fundamentals course. It discusses setting up and optimizing a LinkedIn profile, including adding a professional headshot, headline, summary, experiences, and connections. Examples of connection requests are provided. Students are instructed to complete their LinkedIn profile by the following week and connect with 5 classmates. Tips are given to leverage LinkedIn for career opportunities rather than expecting direct job offers.
This chapter discusses getting into a "write mind" and addresses common excuses for avoiding writing. It presents top 10 excuses such as not having ideas, poor grammar/spelling, or lack of time/creativity. The chapter recommends developing a "write attitude" by reading widely, taking classes, learning computer skills, networking online, getting stationery/business cards, and making time to write regularly. The key messages are that all writers experience love/hate of writing and overcoming excuses to view oneself as a writer and spend time developing writing skills.
The document is a summary of content from the ZenCopy blog, which focuses on boosting creativity and personal growth while teaching how to make money from writing. It provides tips on strengthening creativity through activities like creative listing, assuming the opposite of assumptions, and exploring different creative expressions. The summary encourages learning more by checking out the ZenCopy blog or subscribing to its newsletter.
This document provides tips for writing great blog posts. It discusses structuring posts between 500-700 words with at least one photo. Posts should have an introduction that hooks readers, a body that engages them with supported points, and an interesting conclusion. Other tips include using catchy titles, lists, questions to encourage comments, and being timely and relevant. The document also addresses finding your unique voice and taking blogs to the next level through visuals, expertise, and technology skills. Overall, the key is to keep writing and improving through practice, self-editing, and trying new techniques.
This document provides tips for writing great blog posts in 3 parts or less. It discusses structuring posts between 500-700 words with at least one photo. The introduction should explain why readers should care and the conclusion should recap and call to action. It also recommends developing a unique voice and focusing on being engaging over being boring. Finally, it encourages bloggers to continue improving their skills and trying new techniques like visual content.
The document provides prompts to help brainstorm ideas on various topics. It instructs the reader to come up with at least one idea per page in response to each prompt. Some of the prompts include activities the reader enjoys, things they are interested in or knowledgeable about, places they have traveled, and skills or hobbies they wish to develop. The reader is then asked to review their ideas, select their top three topics of interest, and develop a guiding question for each topic that focuses their research without being too broad or specific.
This document discusses how to become an academic champion and succeed in school. It provides tips for achieving good grades such as aiming for A's and B's, prioritizing schoolwork, and putting effort into classwork and projects. Some potential pitfalls to avoid include letting friends distract you from learning and dropping out of school. The document advises staying in school and exploring extracurricular activities. It shares one student's experience considering alternative schooling but deciding to remain in high school where they have found success and confidence in their studies.
This document outlines the writing process for crafting an essay. It recommends generating ideas through pre-writing techniques like listing, mind mapping, freewriting, and journalist questions before beginning a rough draft. The rough draft should be improved through revision and organization, then carefully edited and proofread. Reading drafts out loud can help identify issues. Writers are advised to thoroughly understand the assignment before starting and check requirements to avoid losing points. Following this process of prewriting, multiple drafts, and revision should result in a successful paper.
This document provides information for students in Mrs. Silveira's 7th grade creative writing class. It outlines classroom expectations such as being prepared with writing materials, participating in daily writing activities and workshops, maintaining a creative writing blog, and avoiding mean behavior which will result in fines. It also describes how student work will be graded and the major final project of either a short story or book of poetry.
This document summarizes Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University. It discusses how Jobs told graduates to follow their passions and trust their instincts. It also analyzed how Jobs captured the audience through humor and humility while sharing personal stories. The document rates Jobs' dynamism and provides tips for public speaking based on his speech.
Fostering Creative Thinking in the ClassroomEduardo Santos
This document discusses fostering creative thinking through classroom activities. It provides examples of talks and research that emphasize the importance of creativity in education. Activities are suggested to help students think creatively, such as having them draw their classroom from different perspectives, create stories from pictures, and explore alternative meanings and contexts for phrases. The conclusion emphasizes that creativity involves thinking without limitations.
This document summarizes a lecture on breaking into the non-fiction book market. It discusses that non-fiction is easier to enter than fiction as it focuses on expertise and timely topics rather than creative storytelling. The lecture provides tips on choosing a subject area, becoming an expert, structuring a book proposal, and writing an effective query letter. Attendees are given online access to workshop materials to help with non-fiction writing.
The document provides various options for job seekers to consider when looking for a new position. It suggests taking a childlike approach by letting one's mind wander and doing fun activities to reconnect with personal interests. It then lists both traditional and unconventional networking strategies, including using online job boards, talking to recent graduates, informational interviews, meetup groups, hiring consultants or other professionals to assist with the search, and producing promotional videos, songs, or commercials. More affordable tactics include using the public library for career resources, taking personality tests, and leveraging alumni connections through informational interviews or the university career center.
How to suck at presenting (and how to avoid it)Steve Talks
Being good at presenting is truly an unfair skill: with so many people out there still doing it in the bad way, it is your way how to stand out from the crowd. Ensure yourself a flawless presentation with a good preparation, design and delivery. No matter if you choose PowerPoint, keynote, prezi or any other slideware: anybody can become a good presenter.
This document provides ideas for repurposing and creating furniture and displays for a school library on a limited budget. It suggests using cardboard, paint, and other low-cost materials to create dividers, tables, seating, shelves, and displays. Many ideas are inspired by visiting other libraries and Maker Faires. Photos show examples of painted bookshelves, table tops, and furniture created from cardboard and crates to transform the library space.
This document contains the notes from a journalism class. It discusses pet peeves, personal branding, and elevator pitches. For homework, students are asked to create 15 and 30 second elevator pitches about themselves on a website and print them out. They are also asked to attend a student organization fair and get information about three organizations that may need public relations help.
The document provides 25 words of writing wisdom from readers of the Writing Frameworks blog. It includes tips such as using specific details instead of flowery language, getting to the point quickly, being yourself and letting your personality shine through, writing in a way that creates pictures in readers' minds, starting writing without overthinking it, and writing what you know while taking risks and playing with your writing. The document also provides photo credits for images related to the tips.
This document provides an overview of strategies and activities used by a middle school librarian to engage tween and teen readers. Some of the key points summarized are:
1) The librarian hosts 27 classes each week in the school library and does various displays and activities to promote reading such as book talks, author visits via Skype, novel studies, and reading contests.
2) Strategies for reader's advisory include shelf talkers, peer-led and teacher-led book talks, catalog-directed recommendations, and maintaining a library blog.
3) Advocacy tips include sharing success stories, writing for newsletters, collaborating with teachers, and highlighting how the library supports learning across subjects.
This document summarizes the concepts from Barbara Sher's book "Refuse to Choose", which presents an approach for people called "scanners" to pursue multiple interests instead of focusing on one. Scanners love learning new things but have difficulty committing to any single topic. The document describes different types of scanners and models for designing careers and life paths that allow scanners to explore various interests through jobs, projects and education that offer flexibility and variety. It provides examples of careers well-suited for scanners and tools they can use to manage multiple pursuits.
This document provides an overview and timeline for a career fundamentals course. It discusses setting up and optimizing a LinkedIn profile, including adding a professional headshot, headline, summary, experiences, and connections. Examples of connection requests are provided. Students are instructed to complete their LinkedIn profile by the following week and connect with 5 classmates. Tips are given to leverage LinkedIn for career opportunities rather than expecting direct job offers.
This chapter discusses getting into a "write mind" and addresses common excuses for avoiding writing. It presents top 10 excuses such as not having ideas, poor grammar/spelling, or lack of time/creativity. The chapter recommends developing a "write attitude" by reading widely, taking classes, learning computer skills, networking online, getting stationery/business cards, and making time to write regularly. The key messages are that all writers experience love/hate of writing and overcoming excuses to view oneself as a writer and spend time developing writing skills.
The document is a summary of content from the ZenCopy blog, which focuses on boosting creativity and personal growth while teaching how to make money from writing. It provides tips on strengthening creativity through activities like creative listing, assuming the opposite of assumptions, and exploring different creative expressions. The summary encourages learning more by checking out the ZenCopy blog or subscribing to its newsletter.
This document provides tips for writing great blog posts. It discusses structuring posts between 500-700 words with at least one photo. Posts should have an introduction that hooks readers, a body that engages them with supported points, and an interesting conclusion. Other tips include using catchy titles, lists, questions to encourage comments, and being timely and relevant. The document also addresses finding your unique voice and taking blogs to the next level through visuals, expertise, and technology skills. Overall, the key is to keep writing and improving through practice, self-editing, and trying new techniques.
This document provides tips for writing great blog posts in 3 parts or less. It discusses structuring posts between 500-700 words with at least one photo. The introduction should explain why readers should care and the conclusion should recap and call to action. It also recommends developing a unique voice and focusing on being engaging over being boring. Finally, it encourages bloggers to continue improving their skills and trying new techniques like visual content.
The document discusses various topics related to work including job searching, skills, and career development. It provides definitions for words like "redundant", "unemployed", and "out of work". It lists tips for things like becoming a master storyteller, practicing restraint, and focusing on the experience. Resources are also provided like websites for digital exchange, a social network, and contacts.
This document provides an overview of creative writing and encourages the reader to engage in writing practice. It defines creative writing as writing that expresses ideas and thoughts in an imaginative way, breaking from more technical styles. The document discusses reasons to write such as achieving immortality, bettering oneself and others, self-expression, and gaining self-awareness. It emphasizes that writers write daily, read widely to learn different styles, and most importantly, practice writing regularly. The overall message is that writing should be approached as an art form to transfer one's ideas and thoughts to paper for others to understand.
This document provides an overview of creative writing and encourages the reader to develop writing skills through practice. It discusses reasons for writing such as immortality, betterment of others, and self-expression. The document advocates writing daily, reading widely from different styles, and practicing writing to improve. It frames writing as an art form and challenges the reader to choose writing and reading goals for the next week to develop their skills over a 6 week class.
The document outlines the writing process for crafting an essay in three sentences:
It begins by providing tips for getting started such as prewriting, developing ideas, and revising rather than procrastinating. Next, it describes various brainstorming techniques like listing, mapping, freewriting, and journalist questions to generate topic ideas. Finally, it discusses the three draft process of a down draft to get ideas down, an up draft to revise and organize, and a dental draft to refine word choice and structure.
You've got an idea for a food memoir, or a narrative or even a cookbook, but you're not sure what direction to head or how to contain the many many idea you've got exploding in that industrious head of yours. Or, you're debating the route you've taken with your blog. Even a cookbook needs a narrative, a hook, a clarifying concept. A blog needs an identity. A memoir needs a clear narrative. When facing a big project, it's easy to look at the examples of success. But imitation begs a question. What makes you unique? What's your story? In this four-hour optional workshop, we'll spend some time looking at these questions, along with what makes notable food stories endure, regardless of the media in which they appear. You'll complete a series of exercises to help you start thinking about your how to find a voice for your work. We'll discuss and flesh out your concepts within a small group environment. The most difficult part of being a writer is finding your voice; the toughest part of being an author or a blogger is determining a clear way forward. Let's start the process of finding both together.
This is a presentation for a 4 hour program on increasing creativity, creative thinking, and creativeness in engineers, scientists and technicians with many years of experience and many patents already in their careers.
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This document promotes living one's life to their fullest potential by focusing on and developing their strengths. It discusses identifying innate talents, investing time to cultivate skills in those areas, and how that leads to strengths that allow for consistent high performance. The overall message is that people should shift their mindset to focus on their strengths rather than weaknesses in order to truly achieve excellence.
The document provides tips for having engaging conversations and closing conversations gracefully. It suggests being an active listener, asking open-ended questions, telling stories, discussing current events, and showing interest in the other person to sustain conversations. To close conversations tactfully, the document recommends politely excusing oneself by claiming other commitments or obligations and avoiding overtly negative behaviors.
10 things to say in an unexpected encouter with an influential personAmelia Young, CFA
This document provides 10 ideas for having a conversation with an intimidatingly successful person in a chance encounter. The ideas include asking the person about something they are known for, commenting on something interesting you notice them reading or doing, offering help for a cause they support, expressing gratitude for something they have done, finding common ground over food or a shared interest, using a book or item as a conversation prop, tweeting your network for conversation ideas, and connecting as humans rather than by titles. The guiding principles are to be interesting, add value to the conversation rather than just taking, and connect on a human level.
This document discusses 101 common mistakes that women make that can sabotage their careers. Some examples include pretending like office politics don't exist, failing to ask for promotions or raises, not capitalizing on relationships, apologizing too much, and hiding their accomplishments. The document provides coaching tips on how to avoid each mistake by giving direct feedback, promoting oneself, establishing boundaries, and advocating for one's career goals.
This document provides step-by-step instructions for students to follow to complete a research project on artwork and the myths/legends they depict. It outlines the topics students should cover in separate paragraphs, including describing the artwork, artist, myth/legend, symbols, and themes. Students are advised to use quotes from research sources and comment on how modern culture reflects ancient messages. The conclusion should summarize key points and their significance. Proper citation of sources is also emphasized.
This document provides guidance on using journal writing for self-discovery among teens. It discusses exploring one's ideas, personality, emotions, life roles, and goals through journaling. Various types of journals are described, such as idea journals, personal journals, and goal planning journals. Tips are provided on choosing a notebook or using a computer for journaling, as well as prompts to get started with journal entries about values, personality, emotions, role models, talents, and setting goals. Maintaining a journal is encouraged as a way to better understand oneself and promote mental wellness.
This document discusses self-awareness and empowering oneself. It encourages taking inspiration from people who overcame obstacles like Beethoven's deafness and Helen Keller's disabilities. It advises knowing the difference between innate traits and acquired ones. Key points are being aware of oneself, one's personality and individuality. It suggests being aware of and moving past negative Filipino tendencies toward a more positive outlook. It provides self-help concepts like believing in oneself, prioritizing goals, and thinking positively.
FrenchBK Presents: C+C // The Experiment IssueAlisa Leonard
The document discusses an art project called the C/loud Project by Benjamin Løzninger. It explores how obliterating everyday visual constraints through art can provide mental relief and hope. The project asks viewers to pause and thoughtfully consider art that depicts "a perpetual 'head in the clouds'" state. This liberates the mind from dull repetition and constraints, finding moments of respite through new perspectives and smiles.
Inner compass - the difference between impossibilities and possibilities -- ...USGuide
Kien Pham shares his life story of overcoming perceived "impossibilities" to achieve success through developing an "inner compass" guided by purpose, passion, and principle. He encourages the audience to find their own inner compass by determining their life's purpose, following their passions, and upholding strong principles. Developing an inner compass, Pham asserts, will allow one to overcome challenges and achieve their goals, as it did for him in being accepted to Stanford Business School despite perceived barriers.
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This document outlines a 3-step approach for transforming a recruiting team from reactive to proactive recruiting. Step 1 is to build the business case by using data on past hires, talent shortages, costs, and competition. Step 2 is to invest in the recruiting team's skills through monthly training and carving out time for passive talent outreach. Step 3 is to monitor key metrics, communicate progress to stakeholders, and celebrate team successes to drive ongoing improvement. The goal is to shift a team's mindset and approach to more proactively source and engage passive talent.
This document is a report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) titled "The State of the World's Children 2013: Children with Disabilities". It discusses issues related to children with disabilities around the world. Some key points:
- Over 200 million children worldwide have a disability and face barriers to accessing healthcare, education, protection and opportunities.
- Attitudes towards disability are changing, but discrimination and exclusion persist. Inclusive communities, schools, healthcare and programs are needed to support children with disabilities and their families.
- Early identification and intervention can help children with disabilities reach their full potential. More data is also needed to understand the scope of issues and properly support this group.
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Employer brand playbook provides a 5-step process for crafting a highly social talent brand:
1. Get buy-in from executive leadership and support the case with data on business impact.
2. Listen to current employees and candidates through research to understand perceptions of the company brand.
3. Craft targeted messaging based on research findings, ensuring messages are consistent with employees' experiences.
4. Promote the talent brand and engage audiences on and off social media.
5. Continuously measure and refine the talent brand strategy based on engagement and feedback.
A baker’s dozen follower best practicesAaron Downes
1. Personalize your message and vary your content through different types of posts like featuring employees, company news, and thought leadership.
2. Encourage audience participation by asking questions and calls to action. Keep posts brief and interesting by keeping them under 50 characters.
3. Post regularly and consistently, such as 20 times per month, to reach your unique audience. Think creatively and mix up your content.
Fundraising Ireland & LinkedIn February 2013Aaron Downes
The document discusses how LinkedIn can help non-profits and professionals build their professional identity and network. It outlines strategies for non-profits to use LinkedIn to build their brand, grow their supporter community, find talent, share knowledge through groups, and make valuable connections that can help further their mission. The document promotes LinkedIn's talent solutions for non-profits to connect with supporters and further their causes.
The document provides tips for social selling professionals. It discusses developing an online reputation through social media, researching social networks to gather intelligence on potential customers, building professional relationships, and providing useful insights. It recommends using social selling solutions like LinkedIn Sales Navigator to build prospect lists, research contacts, and leverage connections. The document outlines five steps social selling professionals can take to improve their skills: building a strong profile, gathering intelligence, developing networks, contributing insights, and using social selling solutions.
Recruiting Solutions provides tools for companies to engage with and build relationships with professionals through their LinkedIn follower base. Companies can post regular updates to grow their talent community, establish their LinkedIn career page as a hub, and measure engagement with detailed analytics. Having an engaged follower base allows companies to amplify their message to over 8 million potential connections.
Infographic Linked In Audience Global 2012Aaron Downes
LinkedIn has over 150 million members worldwide who use the platform for both personal and professional networking. In 2011 alone, LinkedIn generated over 1.8 billion dollars in business leads for its users. The majority of LinkedIn members are professionals who use the site to stay up to date on their industry, build their professional identity, and foster business relationships. LinkedIn has established itself as a trusted social media platform for professional networking and career development.
The document discusses various marketing and communication strategies including identifying with clients, understanding what clients want and when they want it, appealing to nostalgia and memories, empowering clients to feel part of the process, and adapting messaging based on values and framing debates. It also mentions the importance of timing products to client gratification and assessing what value is provided to clients.
The document provides guidance on various roles to support worksearch, including listening and questioning to help with personal action planning, scanning various sources to find opportunities as a workresearcher, using online tools to create a website and online presence, designing workshops to promote learning and development, connecting job seekers with opportunities as a meet marketeer, and facilitating meetings and providing structure as the chair.
Cd Think Pad Presentationfor Small MeetingsAaron Downes
This document discusses curiosity, passion and learning. It questions whether things are truly black and white or more complex, mentioning that learning requires active participation rather than passive observation. The key message is that effective learning happens when people think for themselves rather than being directly taught.
The document discusses 3 scenarios and levels of a core business and new enterprise. It also asks about what is on a menu today, the type of car someone drives, and the main challenge of thinking outside the box.
Joyce M Sullivan, Founder & CEO of SocMediaFin, Inc. shares her "Five Questions - The Story of You", "Reflections - What Matters to You?" and "The Three Circle Exercise" to guide those evaluating what their next move may be in their careers.
A Guide to a Winning Interview June 2024Bruce Bennett
This webinar is an in-depth review of the interview process. Preparation is a key element to acing an interview. Learn the best approaches from the initial phone screen to the face-to-face meeting with the hiring manager. You will hear great answers to several standard questions, including the dreaded “Tell Me About Yourself”.
In the intricate tapestry of life, connections serve as the vibrant threads that weave together opportunities, experiences, and growth. Whether in personal or professional spheres, the ability to forge meaningful connections opens doors to a multitude of possibilities, propelling individuals toward success and fulfillment.
Eirini is an HR professional with strong passion for technology and semiconductors industry in particular. She started her career as a software recruiter in 2012, and developed an interest for business development, talent enablement and innovation which later got her setting up the concept of Software Community Management in ASML, and to Developer Relations today. She holds a bachelor degree in Lifelong Learning and an MBA specialised in Strategic Human Resources Management. She is a world citizen, having grown up in Greece, she studied and kickstarted her career in The Netherlands and can currently be found in Santa Clara, CA.
Learnings from Successful Jobs SearchersBruce Bennett
Are you interested to know what actions help in a job search? This webinar is the summary of several individuals who discussed their job search journey for others to follow. You will learn there are common actions that helped them succeed in their quest for gainful employment.
We recently hosted the much-anticipated Community Skill Builders Workshop during our June online meeting. This event was a culmination of six months of listening to your feedback and crafting solutions to better support your PMI journey. Here’s a look back at what happened and the exciting developments that emerged from our collaborative efforts.
A Gathering of Minds
We were thrilled to see a diverse group of attendees, including local certified PMI trainers and both new and experienced members eager to contribute their perspectives. The workshop was structured into three dynamic discussion sessions, each led by our dedicated membership advocates.
Key Takeaways and Future Directions
The insights and feedback gathered from these discussions were invaluable. Here are some of the key takeaways and the steps we are taking to address them:
• Enhanced Resource Accessibility: We are working on a new, user-friendly resource page that will make it easier for members to access training materials and real-world application guides.
• Structured Mentorship Program: Plans are underway to launch a mentorship program that will connect members with experienced professionals for guidance and support.
• Increased Networking Opportunities: Expect to see more frequent and varied networking events, both virtual and in-person, to help you build connections and foster a sense of community.
Moving Forward
We are committed to turning your feedback into actionable solutions that enhance your PMI journey. This workshop was just the beginning. By actively participating and sharing your experiences, you have helped shape the future of our Chapter’s offerings.
Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to the success of the Community Skill Builders Workshop. Your engagement and enthusiasm are what make our Chapter strong and vibrant. Stay tuned for updates on the new initiatives and opportunities to get involved. Together, we are building a community that supports and empowers each other on our PMI journeys.
Stay connected, stay engaged, and let’s continue to grow together!
About PMI Silver Spring Chapter
We are a branch of the Project Management Institute. We offer a platform for project management professionals in Silver Spring, MD, and the DC/Baltimore metro area. Monthly meetings facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, and professional development. For more, visit pmissc.org.
16. What was the happiest moment of your life? The saddest?
Who was the most important person in your life? Can you tell me
about him or her?
Who has been the biggest influence on your life? What lessons
did that person teach you?
Who has been the kindest to you in your life?
It’s been said that after they pass away, the most important people
in our lives “live within us.” Is there anyone from your past that
lives within you?
What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?
What is your earliest memory?
Are there any words of wisdom you’d like to pass along to me?
What are you proudest of in your life?
When in life have you felt most alone?
How has your life been different than what you’d imagined?
How would you like to be remembered?
Do you have any regrets?
What does your future hold?
105. “Job”
A regular activity performed in exchange for
payment, especially as one's trade, occupation,
or profession, a position in which one is
employed
106. "Work"
Being Unexpected
Exerting yourself
Doing something mental
Do something physical
Having a purpose
Finding a necessity
Finding a path you have never walked down before
Doing an activity you have never done before
Setting a goal Making a promise
Having an effect on someone Having an outcome
Being desired
Being expected
152. Top 10 tips
• Become a master storyteller
• Practice restraint
• Embrace constraints
• Think with a beginners mind
• Leave your ego at the door
• Focus on the experience
• Do communication not rainforestation
• Obsess about ideas not tools
• Clarify your intention
• Sharpen your vision & curiosity and learn from the
lessons around you