TRANSFERRING KNOWLEDGE .......... TRANSFORMING LIVES
It's easy enough to teach someone how to fire a missile, assemble a car, or sweep a floor, but very difficult to teach them how think on their feet, or take risks in the heat of the moment. THINK..... Make your knowledge a gift. Give it away
Be transformational. Watch out for PLASTIC FLOWERS POLLEN...when given away creates new life. As a metaphor, the act of a bee collecting and sharing pollen may be like the activity of a teacher, or mentor with life-giving experience and information that has given them the ability to succeed. The student and protege, as a worker-bee pick up pollen from the living plants and carry it to other plants helping themselves and others grow and transform. There are a lot of life-giving (pollenating), and transformational teachers, but there are also a lot of PLASTIC FLOWERS.  PLASTIC FLOWERS are fake, unnatural and STINK. They have no living particles that create new life. They have the appearance of beauty but what they have to offer is lifeless and useless. What's the Source of Plastic Flowers Something Deeper
Call it presence, authenticity, actualization, attitude, motives, or intentions, but what matters is deeper than the outward appearance and either gives life or kills it. You can tell when someone sucks the energy right out of you. For example, when someone's up to something and scams you, you can tell (hopefully). No matter how slick they move, or how well they communicate we can tell when we are being manipulated. They offer nothing that can perpetuate true goodness. Conversely, people who have the deeper things right provide the pollen (life) necessary to transform lives. Learning how to get them right is the challenge we help you resolve. How do you know what these deeper things are? How do you articulate these seemingly mystical attitudes, feelings, authenticity, or whatever so you can control them? Indeed, can they be controlled? Can you manage and change them if needed?
GREAT TEACHERS ARE GREAT LEARNERS
The first step to learning begins with The greatest compliment "The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer" (Henry David Thoreau).
If TEACHING and LEARNING is not breathing new life and enthusiasm in you or those around you maybe your dealing with a chronic human relation problem--the problem of self-deception (the problem of not knowing, or being unwilling to recognize, you have a problem). SELF-DECEPTION CARRIES POLLEN THAT INDUCES ALLERGIES, IT CREATES SICK PEOPLE OR PLASTIC FLOWER PEOPLE.
No matter where you are everyone is either a teacher or learner (or both at the same time). Which one are you today--right now? What are you doing right now? Reading this, of course? What will you be doing moments from now? Texting, talking on the phone, watching TV, listening to music in a class, in front of a class, driving, gaming, reading, walking, cycling...? No matter, if you are around people (a co-worker, neighbor, friend, child, or a stranger) you are either teaching or learning. If you're not teaching, your learning, if you're doing neither, your dead. LIFE BETWEEN GENERATIONS - Traditionals (born before 1946)
- Baby-boomers (born between 1946-1964)
- Gen-Xers (born between 1965-1980)
- Gen-Yers (Millennials) (born between 1981-1994)
- WE generation is almost ready to enter the workforce (born after 1994).
 MY ADVICE Protégé's... Find life-giving people! Mentors... Be a life-giving person!
Mentors and Protégé's... POLLINATING--LIFE-GIVING KNOWLEDGE... ...TACIT (felt but unseen) ...TRIBAL (felt and seen within a culture) ...TECHNICAL (seen but not felt)
KNOWLEDGE
Go deeper, discover how to reduce self-deception and capture and articulate tacit, tribal, and technical information simultaneously. Self-deception--the seedbed of conflict. CONFLICT kills teaching and learning. Sources of Conflict:
Generation gaps, cultural gaps, stereotypes, gender issues, politics, personality conflicts, fiefdoms, techno-savvy, silo thinking, destructive hierarchies, miscommunication, lack of teamwork, inflated egos, and diversity. How can each of these separate us from each other and thus, separate us from learning? These problems that separate us are the symptoms of a single greater problem--a deeper problem--that undermines teaching and learning and keeps it from its natural, life-giving, transformational state. It is the problem of not being able to recognize, or being unwilling to recognize, problems. It is SELF-DECEPTION.
SELF-DECEPTIONTo set out to develop a mentoring program and the role the human heart plays in the learning process without being informed of the existence and activity of self-deception and without preparing oneself against its subterfuges is like building a beautiful house on a fault line with the comforting words of neighbors saying, "don't worry, an earthquake has never happened here as far as we know." The fundamental causes of failed mentoring goes deeper than what it may seem. So does its success.
 RESULTS OF SELF-DECEPTION:
Self-deception: The problem of not being able to recognize, or resisting the possibility, that I have a problem! Every branch of human conflict can be traced to the roots of self-deception. When self-deception is reduced or eliminated, learning happens! Teaching while living with self-deception will cause you to send the wrong message. When self-deception is diminished there is clarity in both teaching and learning. Enroll today and learn the secrets to... ...maintaining viability amidst a diverse global workforce,
...strengthening employees with cohesive knowledge,
...ensuring market growth during times of economic instability.
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