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SMARTSKILLS® A NEW PARADIGM
FOR LEARNING LANGUAGE EH!
Bob Wiele OneSmartWorld
TESL i3 Conference
2015
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF AMERICA STUDY
Poor Quality Thinking!
94%
Business & Education Clients
AmazingAuthenticAwesomeBeautifulBodaciousBoundlessBrilliantCaring CompassionateCourageousCuriousDelightedDynamic
EmpoweredEncouragedEnergizedEnlightenedEnthusiasticEssentialExhilaratedFabulousFantasticFearlessFreeGenerousGlorious
Happy
Hopeful
Incredible
Ingenious
Insightful
InspiredInvincibleJazzedKindLiberatedLivelyMagnificentMarvelousOptimistic
Power WordsPhenomenalPowerfulRemarkableResilientStupendousSuperTenaciousTerrificUnbelievableUnstoppableValuableVictoriousWonderfulZestful
From Issues to SolutionsSir Ken Robinson: Why Schools Kill Creativity
The Big Why The Big What The Big How
EXAMPLES - Universal Common Languages
• Music• ISO 9000• Standard Time• Smile• Traffic Light
A Universal Common Language
STOP and DECIDE
SLOW and UNDERSTAND
GO and CREATE
Critical Thinking
Analytical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Compassion
Beliefs Based Gut Instinct
Creative Intuition
THINKING – Left Brain FEELINGS – Right Brain
Cool Head and Warm Heart
People…
…think in different ways.
GO TO GREEN FOR CREATIVITY
1. Ideas, options or alternatives2. New ways of looking at problems/tasks3. A list of possibilities - what ifs4. Imaginative insights & solutions5. When you are stuck and need constructive
options
Reframe Problems Into Opportunities
Flash of Insight
Key Green Words
• To shift focus to apply Green creativity, use these verbs:
could, brainstorm, generate, reframe, challenge, expand, create, add, make, solve, draw, construct, explore, envision, contribute, inspire.
GO TO YELLOW FOR UNDERSTANDING
1. Seek first to understand
2. Get organized
3. Analyze information
4. Get clear on feelings and facts
5. Connect, empathize & communicate with others
Clarify Understanding
Key Cool Yellow Words
• To shift focus to use Cool Yellow analytical thinking, use these verbs:
clarify, know, learn, scan, describe, specify, recall, study, plan, explain, understand, research, outline, organize, structure, analyze.
Tune-in to Feelings
Key Warm Yellow Words
• To shift focus to use Warm Yellow compassion, use these verbs:
tune in, sense, hear, sympathize, encourage, support, help, facilitate, enable, connect, communicate, empathize, listen, express, learn.
GO TO RED FOR DECISIONS
1. Get to the crux of an issue
2. Assess critically what the problemis
3. Make a decision
3. Validate a decision
4. Decide by head, emotion or gut
Get to the Crux
Emotion Based Decision Making
Key Red Words
• To move to Cool Red decision making, use these verbs:
should, must, compare, assess, decide, act, evaluate, validate, determine, focus on, conclude, demonstrate, prove, prioritize, judge.
Assess Skills with Bloom's Taxonomy
1. Know and 2. Understand
3. Apply
4. Analyze
5.Evaluate
6. Create
1. Basic
2. Applied
3. Advanced
PERSONAL SPIRIT
The
X
Factor
In
Life
OUTLOOK
SENSE OF CONTROL
INITIATIVE
Your Outlook
Key White Words
• To shift focus on building Personal Spirit, use these verbs:
appreciate, inspire, engage, find a way, adapt, move forward, persist, bounce back, carry on, commit, recover, flex, rebound, initiate.
Smart Track #4: Ideas to Decisions
If we all agree to think the same way at the same time…
…we can make better decisions…
…and drive results together.
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