Promoting Responsibility & Learning – Volume 2 Number 11
#2 How to treat a beggar
#3 Look for the gold
#5 Reducing perfectionism
#2 How to treat a beggar
#3 Look for the gold
#5 Reducing perfectionism
#2 The 15-Minute Rule
#3 Epictetus’ 2000 year old lesson
#5 Using the RRSystem
#2 What you look for is what you get
#3 The Orangutan Theory
#4 The Hawthorne Effect
#3 Being busy is not being successful
#4 Asking for clarification
#6 Controlling the conversation
#2 Hobson’s Choice
#3 A story: coercion vs. noncoercion
#5 A parent’s problem: student failing classes
#2 Teaching to be victors rather than victims
#3 Bringing sunshine or darkness
#4 The key to improving relationships
#2 Your happiness
#3 Paint positive images
#4 Attentive listening
#1 The faulty assumption of behaviorism
#2 John Glenn – giving, rather than receiving
#3 A Lou Holtz story
#1 What I learned in kindergarten
#3 Being unafraid of failure
#4 Using your partner’s differences to advantage
#2 Very specific procedures
#3 Caring
#4 Taming a wild mustang in 30 minutes
#1 How the RRSystem was developed
#3 Thinking of what to say vs. thinking of what to ask
#4 The biggest enemy
#1 Enriching the brain
#3 Accentuating the positive
#5 Anarchy looses its attractiveness when made personal
#2 Children and Adults with “Attention Deficit Disorder”
#3 The boy who grounded himself
#4 Preventing emotional hijacking
#2 Using precise language
#3 Continual improvement
#4 Training in a deficit model
#2 Language and behavior
#3 Comfort and behavior
#4 The likability factor
#1 Kids and power
#3 The effectiveness of telling
#5 Learning from differences
On October 10, 2007, I had the pleasure of speaking in South Africa. The country is undergoing the most radical change of any modern country as it moves away from complete separateness (apartheid) of its various groups of people. The traditional African approach of dealing with problems through consultation and bargaining and of resolving disputes through negotiation is readily apparent in this dynamic country. There are 11 official languages. It is the only country with three (3) capital cities: Cape Town (legislature), Pretoria (executive), and Bloemfontein (judicial). Any challenge that any country has to deal with shrinks when compared to the challenges of the Republic of South Africa.
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