Archive for April, 2008

Career Education Lesson Plans

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Career education courses, have an abundance of career education lesson plans and programs that an individual can choose from. The lesson plans may differ from person to person, because each individual has different qualities and capabilities, and career options vary. Their interests in particular fields influence the lesson plan that will suit them. It is important for people to seek out hands on real life learning experiences to supplement career education lesson plans. There is no alternative for the experience that is gained through practical knowledge. It is also important to add a bit of fun with lesson plans. Field trips involving business and places are excellent supplements to any career education lesson plan.

A wide variety of lesson plans are available to suit the needs of individuals who need a tight knitted curriculum package, or for individuals who need a slightly unstructured package that can be modified and developed. The latter approach facilitates educating people in subjects that they are interested in. Career education lesson plans provide education in basic subjects along with essential life skills.

The benefits of career education lesson plans are they help in determining the interests, and thus guide individuals towards careers that suit their skills. They also help in determining the amount of time to be spent on any particular subject to enhance comprehension and creative ability.

Career education lesson plans prepare students to work efficiently after completing high school. They instill skills that management expects of their employees in fields as varied as computers, food science, agriculture, childcare, engineering and horticulture. The various lesson plans, on career education, help students work independently, think creatively and solve problems while making the best use of technology.

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Entrepreneurial Ongoing Education Advice

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I would like to give some advice to all the up and coming entrepreneurs; if you really want to be a superstar not only do you have to work harder and smarter than the competition, but you must always keep learning. I built a company from a bucket of water and a sponge into a National Car Wash Franchise System in 23 states. To do this you need to know more than what they taught you in school and you can never turn off your brain. Every person is different and has different interests. But I would like you to read thru my recommended reading list. This is a list I hand out to MBA and Entrepreneurial Students when I give speeches. It is a list of recommended book, biography, audio tapes and movies.

I see the need for the modern Entrepreneur for on going learning, which must not stop after HS. In order to continue a life long education it is important to understand and observe the world, understand our places in it. We must also realize the ideals that got us here and the people who worked so hard to bring about the change needed to propel mankind’s future.
Below is a list of recommended Biographies, Books, Audio Tapes and Movies, which can assist you in your lifetime of learning and your pursuit of happiness as you Entrepreneur warriors deliver mankind everything we see, every where we go. We owe it all to you; you are the most noble of all people, you are the builders of civilization. I thank you for your continued efforts and urge you to continue your education do you can be even stronger.

People:

Maya Angilou

Bertrand Russell

John Nash

Chuck Yeager

Charles Deming

Milton Friedman

Fredrick Winslow Taylor

Cecil Rhodes

Jane Goodall

Juaque Custaeu

Betsy Ross

Aristotle

Winston Churchill

Alexander the Great

Bill Gates

Steve Balmer

Fred Smith (Fed Ex)

Michael Dell

General Patton

Ronald Reagan

Princess Diana

Jack Welsh

Ray Kroc

Tom Monahan

Richard Branson

Einstein

HP Founders

Greenspan

Volker

Sam Walton

Walt Disney

Thomas Edison

L. Ron Hubard

Gandhi

Thomas Paine

Howard Shultz (starbucks)

Yanklevich

Henry Ford

Lance Armstrong

Pele

Louis Roukeyser

Von Clauswitz

Vince Lombardi

Tiger Woods

Joe Nameth

Wayne Gretsky

Mark Spits

Carl Lewis

Neil Armstrong

Hank Aron

Schwartzkoff

Babe Ruth

Steven Wolfram

Steven Hawkins

Thomas Jefferson

The President

Nelson Mandella

Warren Buffet

Larry Ellison

Dave Thomas

Ted Turner

Craig McCaw

Andy Grove

Steven Spielberg

Gene Roddenberry

Carl Seagan

Books:
What they don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School

The Death of Competition

Win Win Scenarios

Infoprenuers

Swim With the Sharks…

What Color is Your Parachute

The Sky is not the Limit The Ground is

Winning Numbers

People of the Century By Dan Rather

Profiles of Genius

Winning

It is Always Something

Holographic Universe

Believe to Achieve

The GE Way

The World on Time

Millionaire Next Door

Think and Grow Rich

Bible

500 Year Delta

Finite Capacity Scheduling

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

It Ain’t as Easy as it looks

Blown to Bits

A Future Perfect

The Whiz kids

Disruptive Technology

Opportunity in Chaos

Dilbert series

Trump series

Essays of Warren Buffet

If it Ain’t Broke, Break it

We Seven

Rocking the Ages

In all His Glory

Big Blue

Shapes of Time

Start Small Finish Big

E-Myth

Psychocybernetics

A Salesmen is a Problem Solver

Innovation

Guerilla Marketing series

Slim Forever

Grinding it Out

Net Centric Warfare

On War

Pour Your Heart Into It

Books to understand reality:

Virus Hunters of CDC

Bin Laden, INC.

Germs

Hot Spot

Cobra Event

Clone

Brief History of Time

The Road Ahead

Most of the reading list of the “Futurists”

Machiavelli

Theory and Practice of Hell

Mien Koff

Proudy’s book on JFK

US VS. Microsoft

Confessions of a Stockbroker

Confessions of a VC

Secrets of the Temple

McLibel

The Rotten Heart of Europe

Amsterdam and the History of Commerce

The Art of War

VonClauswitz on War

JFK Reckless Youth

Tapes:

The Psychology of Winning

Benjamin Franklin Series from Franklin Quest

Mega Memory

Executive Summaries

Audio People:

Brain Tracy

Tom Hopkins

Tom Peters

Tony Robbins

*comments: Motivational Tapes tend to be too showy, but have some value.

People should listen to tapes instead of wasting time, if you are not observing things, you should be learning something.

Favorite Movies:

Top Gun

Vision Quest

Karate Kid

St. Elmos Fire

Rocky

Matrix

Star Wars

Authors with multiple books he reads (fiction):

Ayn Rand

Arthur C Clark

Michael Creighton

Ben Bova

Tom Clancy

Tolstoy

Shakespeare Plays and Cliff ’s Notes

Charles Dickens
Isaac Asimov

Favorite Periodicals:

Foreign Affairs

Aviation Week and Space Technology

Wired

Red Herring

Scientific American

Popular Science

Popular Mechanics

Flying

Economist

Lance Winslow

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Online FOREX Education – Product Review

Friday, April 4th, 2008

This course is first off a practical introduction to the foreign exchange market, offering a sound theoretical base to start from and build upon throughout your trading career. Secondly, in addition to the theory, you receive a description in detail and in a simple style, a practical trading system. The trading system provides a framework from which the beginner can be assured that he/she doesn’t go off running into the wrong direction. The more experienced trader will take from this a completely new set of tools to assess what he/she has been doing wrong and where they can improve their trading.

The unusual title is a metaphor for the retail forex trader to be aware of the dangers of trading with the big boys: the dealers and the institutions in the forex market. You are taught the importance of information in forex trading and how to trade with the market movers, not against them.

Dirk’s approach is somewhat contrarian with his basic principles of low leverage, multiple entry, cutting profits and making sure a loss is a loss before you cut it. However, his approach is intelligent and has much merit. In particular, we found very interesting his claims that the people who made real money in forex did it simply using the most basic technical analysis in conjunction with fundamental and other types of analysis. He calls this relational analysis which is, in his opinion, one of the main keys to success in the forex market.

Bird Watching in Lion Country: Retail Forex Explained – in our opinion, is an online forex education product which puts you on the track to reap the rewards of your own efforts and forex knowledge that you acquire: – You will develop your own forex trading system. This is the point, isn’t it? Successful traders develop their own trading systems; they don’t blindly follow those of others.

Other extras included:

Dirk offers an extended mentoring programme built on the basics described in Bird Watching. You get forex strategies and ideas to trade upon emailed directly to you and if unsure about anything, you can email Dirk and he will mentor you through any questions and problems that you may come across. He responds to any queries within 24-48 hours.

Conclusion:

Bird Watching in Lion Country, explains currency trading like no other course or book in the market. The approach is frank and Dirk does not make any wild promises, like many of the Internet Marketers and scammers out there selling “get rich trading forex” products. He explains the forex market realistically and doesn’t over-promise. Instead, the focus is on You and on learning about currency trading through his mentoring program which will hopefully assist you in developing your own forex trading system.

Jovan Vucetic runs Margin-Strategies.info which provides Unbiased Reviews of online forex trading systems. To read more Reviews of online Forex Education material such as the one above or Online Forex Trading Systems visit http://www.Margin-Strategies.info

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Effective Business Management Unites Education and Training with Corporate Coaching

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Business management spends billions of dollars in corporate training and education. According to a report released in early 2006, the U.S. corporate education and training market exceeded $46 billion. Additionally, business management and leadership training captured the largest percentage of program dollars with developing new and existing management along with succession planning. (Source: Bersin & Associates)

With training budgets increasing and the additional focus on leadership and management development because people do not leave organizations they leave managers, achieving higher levels of positive return on investment (ROI) makes sense. Research supports that to increase training ROI begins by including coaching as an effective tactic.

In a 2001 study completed by Dr. Merrill Anderson, of MetrixGlobal, for a Fortune 500 company coaching can produce a 529 per cent ROI. Additional studies since that time confirm the positive affect of coaching. Business management executives are now employing a new learning strategy that combines education and training with coaching. This is initiative is corporate coaching. So what is corporate coaching?

Simply speaking, corporate coaching extends existing learning or what some call training by infusing one on one executive coaching within the education, training and development sessions to achieve performance improvement that generates a positive ROI. Corporate coaching is always aligned with the strategic plan and the organization’s current goals and provides a vehicle to reinforce current learning as well as a way to make necessary course corrections through both individual and team perspectives. Corporate objectives are achieved much quicker allowing for a better competitive advantage.

NOTE:What corporate coaching is not – any program that cannot be aligned to the strategic plan and lacks a structured process that does not focus on pre-determined measurable results.

How does corporate coaching work? The answer to that question is “that depends.” Corporate coaching is flexible and may be included within the training schedules or upon completion of the training. The real issue is to find a corporate coaching process that is results focused and uses proven tools that build the What’s in it for me (WIIFM) leading to the What’s in it for us (WIIFU). Effective corporate coaching works to further internalize the identified learning objectives and quantifies those efforts on a regular basis through consistent goal achievement.

How do I find a corporate coach? That is a very good question since many coaches whether a certified coach or not are now offering corporate coaching services. Possibly, the best way is to find a coach who:

  • Is results focused
  • Has a demonstrated record of success that is quantifiably measurable
  • Has both proven developmental processes and tools that work with the strengths of your organization.

Remember, companies win because of their strengths not their weaknesses. Corporate coaching allows you to further capitalize on those very strengths that made your company what it is.

Leanne Hoagland-Smith, M.S. works with individuals and organizations to double personal or business performance results by closing the gap between where they are now and where they want to be.

One quick question,if you could secure one new client or breakthrough that one roadbloack holding you back from success, what would that mean to you? Then, take a risk and give Leanne Hoagland-Smith a call at 219.759.5601 to experience incredible results.

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