David Long, CEO of the Terminal City Club (private business club based in Downtown Vancouver, BC) and I have just completed an alliance that offers ViRTUS Members an exclusive rate to join the club and gives us a fantastic venue to host our Exchanges in....
Every year the PROFIT 100 turns successful entrepreneurs into the heroes of Canadian business. The PROFIT 100, now in its 21st year, is the definitive ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies. Its alumni include some of the biggest names in Canadian business, such as Research in Motion,...
Adult Experiential Learning Cycle Experiencing - designed to generate individual data from one or more of the senses (hear, smell, taste, see, touch), thinking (interpreting, judging, conclusions, assumptions – based on past experience i.e. stored information), action (verbal and nonverbal), wanting or intending, feeling (positive/negative affective or...
What Entrenches Learning? Modeling – model what world-class practitioners do Immersion – immerse myself completely in the learning Spaced Repetition – schedule regular follow-up [this is one of the more critical pieces as our research at ViRTUS has shown that spaced repetition is the critical stage in shifting...
The Five Stages of Learning: Unconscious incompetence – I don’t know what I don’t know Conscious incompetence – I know what I don’t know Conscious competence – I know what I know Unconscious competence – I don’t know what I know Reflective or enlightened competence – I am aware that...
Interactive Business Learning Experiences™ Interactive Business Learning Experiences™ can best be described as a process of making generalizations and conclusions about one’s own direct experiences, then applying the learning’s to the “real world.” It emphasizes directly experiencing what I am studying, building a personal commitment to...
I asked one my customers, Lonnie Tkach, to write me a letter describing his journey from a bricks and mortar business (the IRL in the title of this post means In Real Life) to an online business in the same industry. I've watched him go...
I've been researching online goal planning software over the past two years and so far the best product that I've come across that encompasses everything that I know, have read and personally experienced about successful goal planning that ties values into goals and tasks, has...
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If you're anything like me then you have a stack of magazines, books, articles, emails, and video in your "to read" pile. So I was quite thankful to receive this link from Tana Heminsley for the McKinsey Quarterly listing of the top ten articles for 2008...