All students who take a Subject Specific class are eligible to earn 0.5 of a Continuing Education Credits (CEU).
You must score 80% or higher to obtain a passing mark for the class. This completion entitles you to receive a certificate of achievement. This certificate will also highlight the number of CEU’s you have earned.
Why Do We Do What We Do?
Why Do We Do What We Do? One of the most widely watched TED talks was by Simon Sinek called “start with why.” It has been four months short of fifty years that I have been involved working in this Industry. When people questioned what I wanted to do with my life when I entered […]
Make It Visible.
Make It Visible. We have written often about Goals and Objectives and Management Measures and Key Performance Indicators. And rightly so. It also ties into my management philosophy of Understanding, Acceptance and Commitment. We MUST have clarity, everyone has to Understand what it is we are trying to do, everyone has to ACCEPT that what […]
Attracting and Retaining Employees
Attracting and Retaining Employees On January 25th 2016 we published the first blog called Memorable Moments. It dealt with my early years and life. It stopped with the line “That was the beginning of the end.” And it was also the end of the beginning of my life. Hewitt Equipment provided me with a […]
The Why and the How
The Why and the How. The transition to team management, while still encouraging personal curiosity and initiative, continues to struggle as the usual leadership doesn’t know how to encourage risk taking without contradicting the work of the team. The true story of the ages is that people will take risks when they have less to […]
Badges, the Computer, and College Everywhere
Badges, the Computer, and College Everywhere Last week, we left off with Patrick Suppes and his realization that students learning online were receiving modestly better results than those in the traditional classroom. This week, we continue with his journey and conclude our discussion. In 1972 Suppes taught a class on the Introduction to Logic. He […]
Badges and Socrates Continued: A Look at the Big Picture
Badges and Socrates Continued: A Look at the Big Picture Last week, we took a look at the price tag attached to formal university education, and the reality of the “brand” driving the costs. Now we turn to Mark Kamlet, the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He talks about the changes in the school […]