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In this age of lifelong learning, we Marketers have to keep abreast of the latest trends, business strategies, market studies etc… etc…How do we build knowledge while keeping in view the thousands of other things we have to do? |
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| Learning & Development |
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| The Learning Journey - Part 3 |
| by Leslie Teo on 10 Oct 08 3:40 AM |
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| Continuing from the earlier post, the second challenge identified by Richard Sennett is the challenge of developing new skills and uncovering potential abilities as skills decay increasingly rapidly over time. A skill can no longer be viewed as a skill for life, an enduring presence that will ensure one's continuing security in the corporate world. Longer serving employees were once respected for the hard-won experience they had acquired. They built up valuable knowledge, compet... |
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| The Learning Journey - Part 2 |
| by Leslie Teo on 23 Sep 08 4:56 AM |
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| "Only a certain kind of human can prosper in unstable, fragmentary social conditions," states sociologist Richard Sennett in the introduction of the essays that make up his book, The Culture of the New Capitalism.Sennett highlights three principal challenges that individuals must meet, arising from specific changes. First, the way in which we view our careers has changed. A short time ago, it was still possible to think in terms of enjoying a long career with a single... |
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| The Learning Journey - Part 1 |
| by Leslie Teo on 29 Jul 08 12:14 PM |
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| The concept of "job for life", still prevalent in business just a few decades ago, no longer exists.This places pressure on the individual who is faced with further pressures as the pace of business life increases and knowledge becomes quickly outmoded and supplanted by new information.Individuals need to take more personal responsibility for the learning they take away from training programs and organizations need to align their choice of training with it's strategic objectives. ... |
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| Singlish - Ok lah! |
| by Nicholas Swallow on 25 Mar 08 5:34 PM |
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| Singlish - OK lah! I'm an English teacher from the UK who has been living in Singapore for the last 11 years, I sometimes get asked for my view of Singlish and the Singaporean standard of English. I must say that usually some of the most negative comments I hear on this subject come from Singaporeans themselves. For me, however, I'm all for Singlish... in the right situation.I know what you're thinking "You're an English teacher what! How can?" (I apologise if my&n... |
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| New Education |
| by Nicholas Swallow on 12 Mar 08 6:28 PM |
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| New Education I’ve just returned from attending the Raffles International Conference on Education where I spent a very interesting couple of days listening to colleagues in the education industry from around the world. The theme of the conference was the future direction of education as we go forward into the 21st century. I must say that listening to all those speakers has filled me with a very positive feeling on where we are all heading. One topic which was spoken about at len... |
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