IGNITE: Your Mind is a Garden

 

“Your mind is a garden.

Your thoughts are the seeds.

The harvest can either be flowers or weeds.” ♦ William Wordsworth ♦ Photo: Justin Vernon

The Training and Education Continuum

Together, training, education, and experience affect individual and collective knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

Kings and Queens of the Mountain

Haughtiness hurts people. The other day I saw some children at play on a large vacant lot where someone had dumped a mound of dirt. They were playing the greatest of kid games: King of the Mountain. The rules are as simple as they are brutal: fight your way to the top, and shove off anyone who threatens to take your spot. It was a slugfest of crawling, pushing, and falling. King of the Mountain is not just a kid’s game. Versions are played in every dormitory, classroom, boardroom, and bedroom. And since mountaintop real estate is limited, people get shoved around. Mark it down: if you want to be king, someone is going to suffer. Your uppitiness won’t prompt a Bethlehem massacre, but it might prompt a broken marriage, an estranged friendship, or a divided office.- Lucado, Max. Because of Bethlehem.

IGNITE: Strategy

 

STRATEGY

Worrying isn't a strategy.

Neither is hope.

Doing your best and continuously learning is.

♦ Dan Pedersen ♦

[Photo: Gannett Glacier Fire Crew]

Building a Learning Organization - Experience

Experience is the most memorable aspect of learning in body, mind, and spirit. It should be designed to incorporate elements of both education and training.

In our experiences—both crafted learning experiences and actual operational experiences—the interplay of questions and answers and problems and solutions produces tangible results. Results must be sensed, evaluated, and used to continually improve personal and organizational character.

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Challenge #12 - 2022 WFLDP Campaign

 Challenge #12: Good teachers craft great learning experiences.

• Visit the Tactical Decision Game Library and facilitate a sand table exercise with your team.
• Interplay questions and answer and problems and solutions to produce tangible results.
• Ensure participants get to be teachers and students.
• Conduct an AAR with your team.

IGNITE: Open Hearts Build Supportive Relationships

A leader with an open heart builds supportive relationships. - Dan Rockwell

[Photo: Tallac IHC]

Building a Learning Organization - Education

 Education is a mind and spirit broadening aspect of learning. It should be designed as a humbling aspect of development in which both teacher and student explore the vastness of knowledge and possibility—that which is known and that which is yet to be discovered.

IGNITE: Silence

“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.” - Cicero

[Photo: Kyle Miller/Wyoming IHC]

Building a Learning Organization - Training

Training is an aspect of learning that sharpens body and mind. It should be designed as an edifying, confidence-building aspect of both individual (personal) and collective (organizational) development.

In training, the answer is more important than the question. Often times the answer takes the form of action in response to a condition. Meeting and exceeding established tasks, conditions, and standards continually “raise-the-bar” in training.

In addition, accuracy (deviation from perfection) and precision (repeatability of effects) are both sharpened through training. Individual and collective safety is a product of demanding training that always raises the bar in both accuracy and precision.

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