Came across the following table while reading John Whitmore’s book Coaching for Performance looking for ideas in developing a coach development framework for a current client. It’s an oldie but a goodie, published here since we’re often needing to remind clients of it when determining instructional approaches.
Told
Told & Shown
Told, Shown &Experienced
Recall after 3 weeks
70%
72%
85%
Recall […]
Information Mapping™ is a formal methodology for writing usable documents. It provides techniques to analyse, organise and present information to maximise its effectiveness.
The methodology was initially developed in the 1960s in the US. It is often described as research-based since all its techniques and principles are derived from research in human factors, cognitive […]
For a simple technique for customising your Wordpress appearance visit kubrickr. This smart application allows you to search for an image in Flickr and have it converted to the format needed to replace the default blue box in the default Wordpress header.
We just tested it to replace our standard blue box. […]
A word to the wise….
When on client sites we use laptop cable locks to secure our precious Powerbooks. And having got sick of always losing keys we’ve for the most part all moved to combination lock versions instead of keyed versions. If you use such a lock read on.
When going home what do […]
By default, links in HTML:
are underlined
are in the same font as the rest of the document
change colour depending on whether the link has been visited already or yet to be visited
To change any of these defaults you simply need to define an alternate style for the links.
Be careful when updating the default styles for your […]