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Unlocking Creative Potential – A Neuroscience Approach, Part II

By Jack Shaw on December 19, 2011

Sandy Cormack, a personal and organizational consultant, continues with his installments of Unlocking Creative Potential. He uses a neuroscience-based approach to team building, leadership development, creativity and innovation, change management, and business strategy development. You could say the human brain is really the last frontier. We use only a small part of it, but increasing our […]

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Unlocking Creative Potential – A Neuroscience Approach, Part I

By Jack Shaw on December 19, 2011

In my last article I talked about performance from the viewpoints of Performance Psychologists. This time we’ll take a look at what neuroscience has to tell us by understanding more about left brain-right brain science. I have asked Sandy Cormack, a personal and organizational consultant to guest blog on the subject. He uses a neuroscience-based […]

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Performance: The Psychologist’s View

By Jack Shaw on December 15, 2011

I am a working actor and a working trainer. For both professions, you could say I am a performance critic. In my other life as a psychologist, I see a wide range of similarities. Instead of comparing business and theatre definitions of performance, I thought a good way to present this issue is to highlight […]

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On Evaluating Standardized Tests

By Jack Shaw on December 6, 2011

I just read an article from the Washington Post that disturbed me: When An Adult Took A Standardized Test Forced on Kids. It was written by Marion Brady and she talks about an educated adult friend of hers who took the 10th grade standardized tests. I wouldn’t be writing this post if her friend validated […]

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Battling for Creative Solutions

By Jack Shaw on December 5, 2011

About a year ago I ran across a NEWSWEEK article that still moves me on the subject of creativity and why we are losing our grip on it. “Oh, it’s part of the usual cutting of arts and music programs in schools” and “creativity is regarded as the purview of the arts” and no one […]

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Finding Employee’s Other Qualifying Factors, Part II

By Jack Shaw on November 30, 2011

As you can tell from the title, this is Part II of my previous blog on the subject. In our search for qualified people, we need to look beyond the direct hiring application and see if there are other qualities or experiences that a new person might bring to the company even if they need […]

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Finding Employee’s Other Qualifying Factors, Part I

By Jack Shaw on November 29, 2011

It seems no one wants to hire an exemplary person, but someone just to do the job. By “exemplary” I mean someone who has more than the obvious talent, education or experience for the job. It’s definitely easier to train an new employee to do the company job, than to discover hidden talents of an already established […]

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Training and Teaching Public Speaking with A Difference

By Jack Shaw on November 25, 2011

I am thankful for the opportunity to share what I think is one of the most important topics to society at large, to the world at large: good, clear, effective communication among us all. I am fortunate to teach at a fairly basic level as well as coach corporate executives and business professionals who speak […]

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How to Brainstorm with Visual Aids

By Jack Shaw on November 21, 2011

This may seem an odd way to use visual aids, but you would be surprised at how effective it can be to brainstorm or even discover new ideas lurking in the audience. I discovered Ignite recently and was so impressed I put it up for my university speech students to see as an unusual way […]

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Needs Assessment: Don’t Blow It, Motivate It

By Jack Shaw on November 17, 2011

We never think much about our car battery until we turn the key and the car doesn’t start. It’s the same with training needs assessment. Companies and organizations want to take advantage of anticipated better times ahead. It’s good that there is an immediate call for the company or organizational needs assessments, probably because the economy […]

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