It seems that over the course of the past few weeks a number of Ted talks have been catching our eye. In particular there have been two, one from Simon Sinek and another from Ken Robinson, a funny coincidence as I had just bought Ken’s book The Element: How finding your passion changes everything.
In Simon’s video he is talking about how we as people get others to align to our beliefs and passions through the way in which we communicate. This is something that we talk about often at Oxygen Learning as describing to people the kind of classroom training that we can do is not given justice with words. So we tend to talk about the passion that we have for what we do and how it has effected people both professionally and personally. We work to paint a picture of what the classroom looks like, we talk about people having big “ah ha” moments and we share stories about how we have been affected by the training we provide. It’s a great talk…check it out at the link below:
http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
The second Ted Talk by Ken Robinson talks about innovation and how through the education system of today we are in effect removing the creativity from children by putting them into lessons that we believe are what the jobs of tomorrow are going to require them to know. It really sparked in myself that we need to be aware that this happens at school and also acknowledge that learning can come in all different shapes and forms, at all ages. As a parent I know that this had me a bit freaked out and wondering what more I could do to ensure that our little one has many opportunities to be creative. This also aligns to what we do at Oxygen Learning, it’s different, creative, outside the box, yet enables and allows people to really learn and remember that learning within both their professional and personal life. It’s what keeps me so passionate about what we do and how we do it! Check out this link as well…it’s worth the time to watch and think about!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
Juliana
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