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Member You - The Power of Reflection
In this third part I will be looking at the next two questions from my original list documented in part 1 of, questions you should be asking of the commercial cleaning companies tendering for your cleaning contract. Will the cleaning be supervised and how often? If the contract only requires 1 – 2 cleaners then inspections should be carried out weekly. Once the contract has been up and running for some time and the cleaners have settled into a good routine then it may be possible to visit only monthly. Contact between the supervising individual and you the client is entirely dependant upon
How to Do It
In its simplest form, reflecting is just thinking about what happened. Reflection doesn’t mean looking for blame or looking for regrets. It will be most valuable when it is an observation of events and their results. In general, your reflection will be
Can you believe it’s almost Christmas? The holidays are here and then the start of a new year will be upon us. Now is a perfect time to reflect on your business and see if it is all that it can be. Is it running at full speed and do you have all the clients that you need?If not, it’s time to get those engines moving and start into action before the New Year begins. I know, it’s the holidays and there’s a lot’s going on. But also it’s the perfect opportunity to connect with your clients and get a head start on potential work for next year. You will find that communication is so much easier when you can u
Mirrors are useful tools in our day. In a short amount of reflection time we get information about ourselves that helps us have a more successful and enjoyable day. Most of us would miss having a mirror around, and some perhaps wouldn’t think they could live without one.
It puzzles me that while we use the power of reflection with a mirror as our tool; too few of us, far too infrequently use the greater powers that reflection can bring to our lives for much greater good. In other words we use a mirror to improve our outward appearance, but may not use the reflection tools that will improve us from the inside – in our minds and behaviors.
As professional and individuals who want to make a difference, reach our goals, achieve more, to in fact, unleash our potential, we need to be continuous learners. And to be the most effective continuous learners, we must learn to harness the power of reflection.
Our Experiences With “Learning”
Most of our deep beliefs and ideas about learning come from our school experiences. In school, for the most part, reflection didn’t play much of a role in the learning process. We were always learning the next thing, solving the next kind of problem. Rarely were we asked to look back and review our experiences to help us improve or learn more in the future. We were tested on what we learned – the grade being the outcome – and then we moved on to the next subject.
Because, of this training and experience, that is how many people walk through their lives. The do some work, get a result, and move onto the next task or event, without looking back at what they did to see what they learned.
It is this type of reflection that I am speaking of: a process of systematically thinking, and perhaps writing about what happened, with the goal of transforming the experience into knowledge that can be used in all sorts of future situations.
How to Do It
In its simplest form, reflecting is just thinking about what happened. Reflection doesn’t mean looking for blame or looking for regrets. It will be most valuable when it is an observation of events and their results. In general, your reflection will be m
Depending on your state and what type of business you are in, employee background checks may or may not be mandated by law. In businesses that deal with children or seniors, Federal law requires background checks on all employees and/or volunteers. The reasons should be obvious: the Federal government wants to ensure that those served are safe from hard and employers need to safeguard themselves against negligent lawsuits.If an employee will be doing any type of driving for the business, it is important to know their driving history. For insurance purposes, employers need to have up-to-date information rega
It puzzles me that while we use the power of reflection with a mirror as our tool; too few of us, far too infrequently use the greater powers that reflection can bring to our lives for much greater good. In other words we use a mirror to improve our outward appearance, but may not use the reflection tools that will improve us from the inside – in our minds and behaviors.
As professional and individuals who want to make a difference, reach our goals, achieve more, to in fact, unleash our potential, we need to be continuous learners. And to be the most effective continuous learners, we must learn to harness the power of reflection.
Our Experiences With “Learning”
Most of our deep beliefs and ideas about learning come from our school experiences. In school, for the most part, reflection didn’t play much of a role in the learning process. We were always learning the next thing, solving the next kind of problem. Rarely were we asked to look back and review our experiences to help us improve or learn more in the future. We were tested on what we learned – the grade being the outcome – and then we moved on to the next subject.
Because, of this training and experience, that is how many people walk through their lives. The do some work, get a result, and move onto the next task or event, without looking back at what they did to see what they learned.
It is this type of reflection that I am speaking of: a process of systematically thinking, and perhaps writing about what happened, with the goal of transforming the experience into knowledge that can be used in all sorts of future situations.
How to Do It
In its simplest form, reflecting is just thinking about what happened. Reflection doesn’t mean looking for blame or looking for regrets. It will be most valuable when it is an observation of events and their results. In general, your reflection will be
Managing Six Sigma right from data collection through to final success is a long walk of sifting through loads of raw statistical data collected from various aspects. Six Sigma software tools are basically statistical interpretation tools while a small number of them are also available for data collection itself.On top of the Six Sigma software hierarchy is the comprehensive tool of reference designed with participants including business leaders in mind. This comprehensive reference tool is helpful in providing the users with vital data essential for deign efforts and/or for making successful improvements t
Our Experiences With “Learning”
Most of our deep beliefs and ideas about learning come from our school experiences. In school, for the most part, reflection didn’t play much of a role in the learning process. We were always learning the next thing, solving the next kind of problem. Rarely were we asked to look back and review our experiences to help us improve or learn more in the future. We were tested on what we learned – the grade being the outcome – and then we moved on to the next subject.
Because, of this training and experience, that is how many people walk through their lives. The do some work, get a result, and move onto the next task or event, without looking back at what they did to see what they learned.
It is this type of reflection that I am speaking of: a process of systematically thinking, and perhaps writing about what happened, with the goal of transforming the experience into knowledge that can be used in all sorts of future situations.
How to Do It
In its simplest form, reflecting is just thinking about what happened. Reflection doesn’t mean looking for blame or looking for regrets. It will be most valuable when it is an observation of events and their results. In general, your reflection will be
Your courier service is the front line between your products and your customers. Uncovering some of the practices a number of courier companies use can make a world of difference in finding an unfailing courier; one which will provide a positive extension of your company, making the right impression that will help you to grow your business.You're on your way to the Edmonton Oiler's hockey playoff game, and your cell phone rings. It's your most valuable customer; they're working on a construction project on a major bridge spanning the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta, and there's been a gas leak. They nee
Because, of this training and experience, that is how many people walk through their lives. The do some work, get a result, and move onto the next task or event, without looking back at what they did to see what they learned.
It is this type of reflection that I am speaking of: a process of systematically thinking, and perhaps writing about what happened, with the goal of transforming the experience into knowledge that can be used in all sorts of future situations.
How to Do It
In its simplest form, reflecting is just thinking about what happened. Reflection doesn’t mean looking for blame or looking for regrets. It will be most valuable when it is an observation of events and their results. In general, your reflection will be
It's not just commercials on television and radio that need actors to read information off-camera. There are a myriad of ways to use voice to educate, inform, guide, entertain, and, of course, sell. Places where you can use voice over talent include PowerPoint presentations, training videos, eLearning courses, flash introductions, voice mail greetings, on-hold advertisements and website audio messages.So, look at your media and if you would like to add some zip to your presentations then find a competent voice over talent. Here are vital steps that you should take to get the right voice for your job.
How to Do It
In its simplest form, reflecting is just thinking about what happened. Reflection doesn’t mean looking for blame or looking for regrets. It will be most valuable when it is an observation of events and their results. In general, your reflection will be most valuable to you when you think about and answer these types of questions:
• What happened (both the process and the end results)?
• How did I feel about it?
• Why did it happen that way (what contributed to the results)?
• How does this remind me of other situations?
• What will I now do differently in the future?
These questions form the backbone of effective reflective learning. They help us look at the events and results from a variety of angles, but lead us to the most important question, “Knowing what I now know, what will I do differently?”
When to Do It
Reflecting can be a part of your everyday routine, just like looking in the mirror. You can reflect on the previous day, and see how you can apply the lessons in the coming day. You can take time to reflect on a project or specific event. Once you have the basic pattern of questions in your mind, you can reflect before going to bed, in your car on the way to work, while you exercise, or at some other time when you are doing routine things that don’t require your full mental attention.
You might also decide to carve out new time to reflect while sitting with a journal. Writing our observations is a very powerful way to solidify and capture our learning. If this sounds intriguing to you, or you already journal and want to adjust how you use that time, fantastic! My main message is that, while it takes discipline to start the reflection habit, the time is available in our day to do this without recreating our entire schedule
The Source of the Power
Experience can be our greatest teacher. But it isn’t like the teachers we had in school. We have to be our own teacher. We become that teacher when we step back and reflect.
You’ve heard the story about the employee who had been in the same job for 20 years, but because they hadn’t learned from their successes and failures, had “one year of experience, twenty times.” Reflection is how we harness that exp
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