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Transforming Course Registration

In today’s fast-evolving educational landscape, adaptability and efficiency are crucial. Learning Without Scars is leading the charge in enhancing the course registration experience, demonstrating a strong commitment to improving both student and client interactions. However, as with any major innovation, there are valuable lessons to be learned. By comparing Learning Without Scars’ advancements with the flexibility and ease of use found in third-party educational platforms, we gain a clearer understanding of the future direction of educational technology.

Continuous Improvements and Innovations

Learning Without Scars is actively refining its approach. Recent updates focus on streamlining the registration process, enhancing website navigation, and offering personalized support for students, clients, and staff. These efforts aim to provide a more compelling alternative to lower-cost options by boosting the value and efficiency of the Learning Without Scars platform.

Center of Excellence: Shaping the Future

Looking ahead, Learning Without Scars is working to establish a network of Centers of Excellence across the U.S., Canada, and beyond. This ambitious initiative aims to transform vocational training by reevaluating revenue-sharing and commission models, attracting top-tier talent, and securing valuable resources for long-term success.

New Learning Management Platform

The team members at Learning Without Scars are pleased to announce the official launch of our new education platform.

We are activating sections of our education offering as each one is completed.

Assessments are now available and soon to be followed by classes, certifications, and lectures.

Under the Education menu option, you will find 3 choices:

Certifications

We are pleased to offer you 3 certification levels for 5 departments. You will also be presented with 8 recommended prerequisite classes to ensure you have the base knowledge requirements for taking the certification.

Job Functions

This “Steps to Success” offering which takes advantage of a unique, job specific assessment to determine you your skill level to determine the recommended 8 classes to improve your knowledge.

Curriculums

A complete list of classes by department is available for your selection.


Your Feedback is Always Welcome

Please email ro*@******************rs.org with your questions or concerns.

We provide comprehensive online learning programs for employees starting with an individualized skills assessment. These assessments allow us to then create a personalized employee development program. From their assessed skills, the employee is asked to select from classes designed for their skill level which allow them to address the gaps in their knowledge level. This allows the employees to move through four progressive categories of learning: Developing, Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced.

How do we find our individual potential? 

As many of you know, the primary purpose of our Learning Without Scars business is to help people find their personal potential. That confuses a lot of people. Most of us don’t have any idea of our potential. Early on in civilization it was quite basic and very simple - to have the strength to be able to find and get food. We were hunters and gatherers. If we couldn’t find food, we died. Simple, right?

Today it is much more complicated. Governments are determined not to have people die from lack of food. We have many social programs to ensure that people will have access to the basic requirements of life. Even in these advanced times, we have many who choose to stay off the grid for one reason or another.

In the United States in 2020, about 18% of the population was under 15 years old; 65% from 15 years old to 64 years old; and 17% over 65 years old. I believe that understanding our potential changes with our age. It varies as we get older. One of the definitions of potential causes me some difficulty. It is the “possibility of becoming something more.” Isn’t that always the case? Aren’t we constantly learning things? Another definition is “coming to self-realization that there is more to our lives.” This definition gets rather personal for me. One day, while my father was still alive, we were having a glass of “brown water” and solving the problems of the world, he paused and looked at me and said “I don’t understand you. You are never satisfied.” I responded quickly with the blithe comment “well there is always more, isn’t there?”

And that becomes the challenge of potential. There is always something more.

One of my grandchildren is in High School and we were talking about what he wanted to do with his life. He said, "I don’t know." It is a terrific answer for someone in High School today. There are so many choices available to us. There are the sciences and the fantastic developments being made within them. The arts and the various media - sculpture and painting - as well various methods to express ourselves visually. Music and literature and drama. Fashion and Makeup. I might add that many of the early school years tend to “stifle” creativity not “encourage” it. How do you start in finding this something "more?"

Well, how about starting with those things that do not turn you on? These are the things that you don’t like to do. In 1998 Sir Ken Robinson led a commission created by the government in the UK – “Commission on creativity, education and the economy.” It turns out he was highly critical of the education system under which he was taught. He regretted the fact that neither the primary school, secondary school nor college enabled people to develop their talents and discover what they really wanted to devote themselves to in their lives. Doesn’t that condition still exist where you live? Where you went to school, or your children and grandchildren are going to school? Where are we supposed to find this magic “thing” to which we want to devote our lives?          

This is a difficult undertaking, isn’t it? This pursuit of our potential. How about we look at the other side of the question. What don’t we want to do? What aren’t we very good at in our lives? Sometimes that is easier to identify.

  1. What was something you disliked studying?
  2. What were some jobs you hated?
  3. What are some of the household chores you really don’t like doing?

Isn’t there anything common in the items above? 

  1. Are they some activities you do alone or without somebody else?
  2. Does someone tell you to do these tasks or does it depend only on you?
  3. Do the activities need something physical or intellectual?

Now let’s make another list.

Write down everything you like or liked to do in the areas below: 

  1. School or Education
  2. Jobs
  3. Everyday tasks

Now find the common denominator in these items.

Have you stopped any of these activities you enjoyed? 

  1. Why?
  2. Can you recover it and start it again?

Now let’s rank the things you liked to do.

  1. What is in first place?
  2. Can you make it more prominent in your life?

Some things should now be standing out. Things should be clearer.

Now comes a big question. I think it will have become clearer to you. You know better now some of the things you want to do. So, let’s ask that magic question? What have you always wanted to do but were afraid to start doing it? Do you think it is time to start doing it? That is the beginning of your potential. The possibility of becoming something more. Are you ready to get started?

The Time is Now.

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May 19, 2022

So we won’t concentrate on what we do or how we do it. We will concentrate on WHY. The starting point here to me is that we will focus on the fact that we are in business to reduce the owning and operating costs of capital equipment for the equipment owner and operator.  We are in business – WHY – to provide the lowest operating cost machine which translates into the highest value proposition for the customer.

In the context of Service-Dominant marketing this means that we should have a complete, current and accurate machine ownership list. This also would be helpful if we had electronic control units on each machine to track equipment and component operating conditions - things such as clogged air filters or overheated engines. This will allow us to assist the customer in their equipment management - after all that is what we are supposed to be good at isn‘t it? The time is now.

August 6, 2012

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