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Vocational Education as a Life Choice
By Dr. Indira Bhagaloo After the initial thrill of finishing secondary school wears off, most matriculants are hit with the harsh reality that they will not be able to pursue their immediate dreams...
A GROUNDBREAKING COLLABORATION TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF CADDIES AND EVEN OUT THE FAIRWAY.
Caddies in South Africa do not get paid much in an environment where the extremely affluent come to play. Spurred by the knowledge that education goes hand-in-hand with the power to shape the...
Keeping learning fresh: Part 2
A well-structured and effective online learning journey is a multidimensional process. Learners, online facilitators, learning content, and the delivery platform all have a significant influence on...
Spotlight on communities of practice
Communities of practice are social phenomena that are getting a lot of attention lately because of the power they offer for knowledge exchange. These communities exist everywhere. Hobby groups,...
Keeping online learning “fresh” in ’22 - Part 1.
One of the major challenges currently facing learning providers is how best to assess learning when information is everywhere and students can just Google test answers. This obviously challenges...
The power of virtual facilitation.
It seems adults learn most effectively in places not officially designated for learning. We do not find our greatest lessons in online classrooms or facilitated sessions. Instead, we learn best...
“Dead scripts” need to be enlivened
John Vervaeke is a cognitive scientist whose long YouTube video series, “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”, shows us the relevance of cognitive science to our everyday lives and even to how we...
Workplace readiness. It’s hunting and gathering.
Transitioning from school or university can be tough. When you consider ‘workplace readiness’ and what this might encompass, it soon becomes apparent that work newbies need a strong foundation to...
Searching for Personal Significance: A foundational element of a learning architecture
Cliff BrunetteDr. Rica ViljoenAbstractIn today’s fast-paced, commercially-orientated world of work it is easy to lose some of what we, as humans, are.The demand to produce more, in less time, is an...
Augmented leadership through adaptive intelligence
Cliff BrunetteSeptember 2019Reference as: Brunette, C.; Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). (2019). Research Bulletin on Post-School Education & Training: Number 8. Pretoria:...
The challenge of finding time to study
Despite the pause on physical social interactions imposed by lockdowns and social distancing, life is still accelerating at an unprecedented rate. Speed dating, power naps, and apps to help us...
The need for a revised Organising Framework for Occupations in the Banking Sector
Author: Indira Bhagaloo - 2018 Introduction On 27 March 2018, President Cyril Ramaphosa launched the Youth Employment Services (YES) initiative, which aims to guarantee over a million young South...
Adaptation, survival, and the 'Agile Equation'
This week, one year ago, calamity was closing in. COVID has been a crisis of disruption - it’s a year later, and the world is a changed place. We’ve been disrupted...
From the CEO’s desk: Living your learning.
To live as a human is to live tethered to a dream. Some dreams are grand and glorious - the desire for fame, wealth, a worthwhile legacy - while some are more beautifully modest. Regardless of what...
Slow Leadership: it’s not how you lead, its who you are.
Leading into a digital age, through a pandemic, in businesses threatened by economic contraction and disruption, knowing that the emerging future requires fundamentally different leadership acumen,...
Get a “welcome bonus” from your brain
Brains are truly remarkable devices. They can grow and change shape depending on what we feed them. We are constantly challenging ourselves to taste that sweet chemical cocktail that our brains...
Evaluating the Transfer of Learning: A Case Study of a South African Retail Bank
Indira Bhagaloo (PhD) Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management Johannesburg, South Africa indirab@performancesolutions.co.za Prof Krishna Govender# School of Management, IT and Governance...
Get a “welcome bonus” from your brain.
Brains are truly remarkable devices. They can grow and change shape depending on what we feed them. We are constantly challenging ourselves to taste that sweet chemical cocktail that our brains...
Infodemics and the wellness of knowledge
Fake news has become such a scourge in recent years that the term no longer needs to be contained in quotation marks. The world is currently experiencing a huge rise in mistrust for the media –...
The most remarkable trait. We can un-learn.
The most remarkable trait shared by humans is our adaptability. The variety in which humans can live their lives is unparalleled in nature; while two lions might have slightly different hunting...
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