What one thing do you feel you're an expert in?
Posted on Oct 21st, 2007
by 
Ian
Ian
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 20, 2007:
It's an interesting time for this to have come up in Questions and Reflections.
My expertise - in terms of being highly qualified, and vastly experienced - is in learning, teaching and training. I love being with a group of people and seeing them make progress, and I also love contemplating the future of learning - how we can change the nature of schools, colleges and universities to meet the needs of the whole person.
For the last couple of years I took what now seems as if it was a wrong turning for me, by getting into neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) therapy. Now, NLP and hypnosis has made a major difference to my life, and anyone wanting to make life changes would do well, in my opinion, to have a serious look at the possibilities it offers. I'm just not sure that moving on from teaching and training into a different area was the right thing for me.
I have added my NLP Advanced Platform Skills into my learning and teaching mix, and I'm happy about that. And in returning to teaching, learning and training, I need to consider how to make my expertise count as a freelance, since there are few opportunites to resume my career now I'm living in the beautiful Welsh countryside (and I'm not swapping that for anything!)
So, Im in the throws of setting up a new consultancy that fully expresses my educational expertise. The idea is to work with trainers and teachers to enable them to add zip and zing to their role - charisma. I'll also work with anyone to wants to get their own area of expertise across to a wider audience - structuring and shaping workshop material and presentation, for example. And I'll apply my writing and editing skills to your written training and teaching - e-books and e-courses for example. All the best material needs to be fashioned and shaped to meet the needs of the learners.
I'm still working out the details. If you have any comments, let's discuss this!
My expertise - in terms of being highly qualified, and vastly experienced - is in learning, teaching and training. I love being with a group of people and seeing them make progress, and I also love contemplating the future of learning - how we can change the nature of schools, colleges and universities to meet the needs of the whole person.
For the last couple of years I took what now seems as if it was a wrong turning for me, by getting into neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) therapy. Now, NLP and hypnosis has made a major difference to my life, and anyone wanting to make life changes would do well, in my opinion, to have a serious look at the possibilities it offers. I'm just not sure that moving on from teaching and training into a different area was the right thing for me.
I have added my NLP Advanced Platform Skills into my learning and teaching mix, and I'm happy about that. And in returning to teaching, learning and training, I need to consider how to make my expertise count as a freelance, since there are few opportunites to resume my career now I'm living in the beautiful Welsh countryside (and I'm not swapping that for anything!)
So, Im in the throws of setting up a new consultancy that fully expresses my educational expertise. The idea is to work with trainers and teachers to enable them to add zip and zing to their role - charisma. I'll also work with anyone to wants to get their own area of expertise across to a wider audience - structuring and shaping workshop material and presentation, for example. And I'll apply my writing and editing skills to your written training and teaching - e-books and e-courses for example. All the best material needs to be fashioned and shaped to meet the needs of the learners.
I'm still working out the details. If you have any comments, let's discuss this!
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