Interview about The Success Zone on ABC Gippsland
- Posted on 12th July 2010
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- by Andrew Mowat
Interview about The Success Zone and its application on ABC Gippsland: extract of an interview with presenter Celine Foenander. var addthis_language = ‘en’;
Continue reading...Migrating to WordPress…
- Posted on 6th May 2010
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- by Andrew Mowat
Group 8 Education is transferring its content and structure to a WordPress framework – you’ll notice some changes as we progress through this migration over the coming days. Thanks for your patience! var addthis_language = ‘en’;
Continue reading...Some thoughts about insights and visions
- Posted on 3rd August 2009
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- by John Corrigan
I am writing this on a plane between England and Australia. I have been in England doing a mix of work and marketing, essentially talking with a lot of people about our work and testing new ways of both articulating what we do and delivering it. As this was happening [...]
Continue reading...Attention Priority: your brain is like a lava lamp
- Posted on 8th July 2009
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- by Andrew Mowat
Given the limits to our attention and the high competition for that attention by many things in our day to day life, the brain has a process whereby it cycles through high demand priorities. We call this attention priority, a mind process where the most pressing attentional needs rise to [...]
Continue reading...Teachers as leaders
- Posted on 30th June 2009
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- by John Corrigan
Our research shows clearly that leadership skills are learnable, this has very important ramifications. The most recent definitions of leadership describe leaders as people who create the conditions for others to succeed. The example par excellence of this ought to be teachers – as parents we want their whole focus [...]
Continue reading...Decision-making and organisation
- Posted on 21st June 2009
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- by John Corrigan
Jonah Lehrer’s book the Decisive Moment gives strong insight into how we make decisions. Insight that helps to explain why we are at a turning point in human and societal development. The instinctive decisions related to survival come out of our reptilian brain and are reasonably obvious. If we are [...]
Continue reading...Like/dislike and successful organisations
- Posted on 5th June 2009
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- by John Corrigan
A successful leader creates the conditions for others to succeed. People are most able to succeed – and acquire the skills they need to succeed – when they are in a mind state of optimism, collaboration, creativity and growth. Of course, organisations can be successful with only a proportion of [...]
Continue reading...What if all teachers were outstanding …
- Posted on 27th May 2009
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- by John Corrigan
Most adults who have been successful in life can point to, on average, two teachers who made a significant impact on their life’s course. Most adults will have had between 30 and 50 teachers during their school careers so this implies that only 4 – 6% of teachers had this [...]
Continue reading...Tweeting in the Blue Zone …
Imagine we are meeting for the first time. We shake hands, leaning in slightly towards each other and smiling as we do so. We scan our faces for social connection, see all the right signals, and feel good about the connection. Then, as you withdraw your hand, you see my [...]
Continue reading...The Three Types of Change
- Posted on 12th May 2009
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- by Andrew Mowat
I was musing yesterday on the changes I have made, and how long they last. This stemmed from passing yet another ‘hidden’ camera, and thinking that the fear or anxiety of not knowing where these cameras are have exerted a coercive and external change on me. Not knowing where these [...]
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