Many employees shy away from giving their boss any kind of feedback and you may be the same way. After all there's nothing more difficult than having to tell your boss that he or she needs to improve. There are many reasons why most employees avoid giving feedback to their manager. The main reason to avoid giving feedback is a fear of retaliation or negative repercussion. You may even feel intimidated to offer positive feedback, thinking to yourself, 'my boss doesn't want to hear my opinion<< MORE >>

Fifty year old Alice Howland, a world-renowned expert in linguistics and a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Still Alice is the story of the unraveling of Alice's life as her disease progresses.<< MORE >>

Balancing Work and Family Life Prioritize. Always listen to your children and make them feel wanted and be their sounding board. As they grow older make them slowly responsible for their own lives. Allow them to learn from their mistakes as you learn from your mistakes. It really helps to have an understanding husband. Take a few hours off in the week to indulge yourself, maybe meet up with old classmates, or go to a spa, or engage yourself in your favorite sport or hobby to rejuvenate yourself.<< MORE >>

An effective leader has a distinctive set of personal qualities: integrity, courage, initiative and an ability to handle stress. This individual is often admired in their efforts to think critically, set goals and skillfully communicate and collaborate.<< MORE >>

You're a new teacher looking for ways to engage adult learners in interesting discussions in your class or you're simply trying to find another way to encourage your students to think for themselves and share their ideas with others. Here is a technique called pyramid teaching that I think you will find to be very effective.<< MORE >>

Whether you are are seeking for a new job offer or asking for a pay raise, salary negotiation is definitely a task that not many are a fond of doing. However, if you want to get the salary that you know you deserve, you have to do it so you might as well know how to do it successfully. With this guide, you will be able to learn exactly what you have to do to get that pay you have been working hard for.<< MORE >>

Leadership doesn't just "happen." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you. The choices, after all, are yours. You choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear. Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results.<< MORE >>

When students engage actively with material, they generally understand it better and remember it longer. Student participation often results in covering less material during a semester. Yet it also can mean that students learn more information than when the material is simply "covered" because they actively use it and have more chances to clear up confusion. Large numbers of students in class do not preclude interaction. << MORE >>

Perhaps because the concept is so central to what adult education is all about (Mezirow 1985), self-directed learning has been one of the field's high-interest topics for more than a decade. Researchers, theorists, and practitioners have all asked the questions: What is self-directed learning? Who is engaged in it? What are the proper roles for educators and institutions wanting to provide it? << MORE >>

A variety of sources provides us with a body of fairly reliable knowledge about adult learning. This knowledge might be divided into three basic divisions: things we know about adult learners and their motivation, things we know about designing curriculum for adults, and things we know about working with adults in the classroom. << MORE >>