Lifelong learning is a valuable tool for personal and professional development at any age, but particularly for Third Agers. This article reports on how one Third Ager learns from young adults in his college level classes. It presents some of the main issues that concern young adults today.

The perfect plan for any project, whether it be starting a business or writing a book, is mind mapping. (A unique technique of organizing your mind on a specific topic on paper.)

Nowadays, many of us receive e-mail invitations to join social networking websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, or MySpace. Even if you know the sender and name of a social network to which you’ve been invited, before you click on an invitation response link, take a second and consider that not all invitation e-mails are what they seem. Some fraudulent “friends” and “social networks” could have drastic consequences to your security and privacy.

Welcome to the world of calculating ROI of e-learning! According to a survey, the worldwide market size for e-learning tools was estimated at a staggering $235M in 2002, and is rapidly growing towards a benchmark of $816M by 2006 depicting an annual growth rate of 37%.

Leadership is the ability to motivate and influence a group toward the achievement of goals. As a manager, what is your role in motivating and retaining employees? How are you measured? What do you do? Why? What are the results? How will your employees remember you?

Stress Management utilises a number of different and varied techniques to help control and minimise stress. This in turn helps prevent stress causing damage to your well being be it physical, or mental. The process begins by identifying the main causes of stress in your life and your reaction to it. Using several techniques the stress is either minimised or the reaction to it is reduced.

Research shows that 75-90% of doctor visits are due to stress related ailments and disorders, and that prolonged stress can lead to both mental and physical problems. Stress can also affect a disease’s process from the onset through its progression and on through the recovery stage – even when there is another cause of the disease. Stress is no laughing matter.

There exists a current debate over whether behaving in a socially caring manner, or social altruism, is a learned behavior or whether human beings are hard wired, or genetically predisposed, to behave in such a way. There are surely rational arguments for each side. However, some studies indicate that altruism is indeed hard wired into the human brain as well as the brains of several other species. In essence, humans can’t help the urge to help.

Are you considering using online learning in your workplace or classroom, but don’t understand some of the terms you come across? Or are you considering a career in designing/developing online learning? This article will help you wade through the basic terms associated with this medium.

Difference in the perception is time is an important aspect of social and business interaction that an expatriate manager has to deal with. Training on the perception of time as a cultural sensitization exercise would a go a long in helping the expatriate manager ‘fit-in’ to the new cultural surroundings.

Twitter is an essential service for acquaintances, relatives, and colleagues to converse and stay associated by the exchange of rapid, regular communication. People inscribe little updates, often known as “tweets” that consist of 140 characters or less. The messages then get posted to your report or a blog sent to links and are traceable through a search on Twitter.

The average meeting is just that, average, and the results, or lack thereof, speak for themselves. More and more companies are asking who within their inner circle has the requisite facilitation training to make a meeting pop, and more and more often the answers are coming from the outside.

Stress is not the pile of papers sitting on your desk. Stress is not the child screaming in the living room, or the clean laundry the dog just dragged out the door. Stress is your response to those things.

Under what conditions does a team mission statement deliver what is required? If you have been given a team leader assignment then you may be wondering about this question! In this article I will present 3 guidelines for executing effective team mission statements.

Techniques to relieve stress in your life.

Ten Top Tips to Save you Time and Stress – plus a bonus tip. Time management has nothing to do with time and everything to do with you.

Group coaching is effective when used with peer and/or affinity groups – people with similar objectives who will co-create the group with the Executive Coach. Team coaching is with a project team or organization where people may have been “assigned” to a team; they bring their organizational or personal objectives to the team which may influence the team cohesiveness, its effectiveness to meet project deadlines, and to create a team with “open” communication. Leaders need to understand the differences and use an Executive coach who understands the difference and can improve coaching participants’ effectiveness and performance.

There seems to be a lot of confusion and loose thinking about stress in popular journals and books. How else can you explain terms like “good stress” and concepts like “A certain amount of stress is good for you,” or advice like “Stress is unavoidable.” Once you understand the meaning of stress you’ll realize that stress is always harmful, that there is no “safe” level of stress, and that you can deflect stress if you know how.

Stress is a fact of life! Regardless of your industry or profession, rest assured that stressful situations, individuals and environments will all be formidable forces which, unless handled with skill and awareness, will compromise your ability to achieve your goals and enjoy the lifestyle that you are seeking. Yet, much like the proverbial head in the sand syndrome, we ignore this fact and neglect investing in learning how to deal more effectively with the myriad of stresses which we must deal with daily.

Effective leadership is a critical factor in the success of every organization. Learn the skills necessary for facilitative leadership to transform your organization and the bottom line.

If you knew the leading causes of stress in your life, would you take action to eradicate them? Can you eradicate stress – or is it an inoperable condition that will be with you all of your life, possibly causing your eventual death?

Many years ago my wife was studying for an exam and she was drawing these colorful diagrams while reading her notes. At first they didn’t make much sense to me so I dismissed them thinking she was crazy. Curiousity got the better of me and later I had to find out more about these crazy looking diagrams so I asked her what she was doing. She told me she was “Mind Mapping” and she quickly explained how it worked. It intrigued me and I wanted to know more.

What are the words that are going to be needed in social Media? Your vocabulary will speak volumes about you. Make sure that you are saying what needs to be heard!

Like myself, many people have had negative experiences while going to school. Because the way of teaching wasn’t consistent with your individual way of learning, you may of had difficulties with different subjects. You may have experienced under-achievement and even failure. You may have experienced negative comparisons with others who were getting excellent grades while you were struggling just to get by in your classes.

While all stress must be managed, it is a mistake to think of all stress as bad. Some stress can be very good.

Moodle is Open Source LMS. It is a FREE learning management system that enables learning professionals (teachers) to create engaging online learning courses.

A teacher should, above all, be a person who wants to make a big difference in students’ lives. The challenge is to make that difference without permitting stress to drive you out of teaching. The challenge is to practice good stress reduction techniques.

If you are busy in study or work, you may have little time to do other things which would mean more money and many better advantages. Online learning becomes a feasible choice. There are many benefits of online learning.

Stress is a normal part of life. Stress is also one of the biggest factors affecting people’s health today. Here is some information about stress, its causes as well as a few things that can be used to counteract the affects of stress.

There are three main categories of stress they are physical, emotional and behavioural. Physical stress could be tense of muscles, pounding heart, fast or shallow breathing, sweating, headaches, sick feeling in the stomach. Emotional stress may be symptoms of feeling under pressure, feeling tensed, feeling frustrated and irritable, having difficulty concentrating, loss of self confidence, difficulty making decisions, feeling mentally exhausted.

Online social networking and social media marketing are the hottest new tools in the business promotion armamentarium. These tools are not only extremely effective for “growing the brand,” but for advancing the reputations and careers of executives alike.

Twitter was founded in 2006 by American software architect and business person Jack Dorsey. Since its creation, it has quickly gained a cult following and has grown exponentially in terms of notability and popularity on a global scale. Twitter is best described as a free social networking and micro-blogging site; amalgamating the convenience of short text messaging and the ease at which information flow is facilitated instantly online.

Assertiveness skills are very important in many situations; by being assertive you are letting people know what you want, need or prefer, in a way which is acceptable to both you and them. Put simply; assertiveness is about getting what you want without upsetting anyone!

What is a Twitter SeeSaw? A Twitter SeeSaw is when you have a lop-side count of either Following or Followers. This effect tends to happen due to these four stages.

This short article will provide some practical suggestions for converting existing materials into interactive learning content and for developing new content. Focus on interactive learning – where the learner interacts with the various information sources as well as tools offered by the internet and is engaged in meaningful teaching and learning activities.

Do you sometimes feel like the white rabbit in Alice In Wonderland? “I’m late! I’m late! I’m late!” You might be aware of time management tips in the world but during times of increased stress your natural style emerges. So, you can decide to work against your natural time management tendencies OR you can work with your natural flow to improve your productivity.

“Feedback Whats in it For Me?” was about the motivation to give feedback. But where should you start? The six thinking hats from De Bono offers a very good start.

Internet marketing, and within it social media and social media marketing, presents a complex puzzle, a balancing act of sorts between relationship building and conversion. The balance between the former and the latter can spell the difference between success and failure in the relationship building process and in Internet marketing, in general. Many marketers, in their zeal to convert relationships into dollars, fall into the trap of linking up too often and/or too early in the relationship building process. The balance between Internet marketing and social media will be discussed at length in this article with an eye towards helping the reader understand the balance necessary between the two.

“Soft skills are the key to providing workers with the core skills in communication, team work, leadership; personal effectiveness skills required to leverage ones individual strengths.”