Chaotic learners are those that do not know what they don’t know yet, and also do not have a meta-model for their learning best practices. That is, they might know how they learn best, but in any case, they don’t know how to explain that to others.
<ul>
<li>Needs the team to deploy a diverse set of teaching strategies upfront to see “what sticks”.</li>
<li>Needs frequent and explicit push to reflect on what they’ve learned and how.</li>
<li>Might experience anxiety at proposals to share their learnings with their team.</li>
</ul>

Learning Styles: Chaotic Learners

These are people that think they know what they don’t know yet and have had success with a particular learning strategy in the past. They are eager to start working or studying in a way that was successful in the past but often dismiss/fail to recognize alternative strategies.
<ul>
<li>Needs the team to figure out how to shape starter projects in a particular way that works for the individual at the beginning.</li>
<li>If the learning strategy is not compatible with the beginner’s expectations, that may cause anxiety and distress.</li>
<li>Benefits from “fireside chats” where other team members explain how they learn.</li>
</ul>

Learning Styles: Unbalanced Learners

They are comfortable using a toolbox of various learning strategies and already have experience reflecting on their learnings.
<ul>
<li>Needs the team to listen to the learner and perhaps develop new projects or new project styles.</li>
<li>Often strategic learners are smarter about their learning process than the collective intuition of their team and that needs to be recognized/managed.</li>
<li>Feels empowered by invitations to share their learnings with their team.</li>
<li>Benefits from and enjoys interactions with a “sparring partner” to exercise strategies, reflect on learnings etc.</li>
</ul>

Learning Styles: Strategic Learners

This might occur with people who are unsure about who they are in relationship to their team and their organization.
Anxieties about personal validation, dignity, and respect.
<ul>
<li>Needs the team to spell out explicitly that diversity is celebrated.</li>
<li>Benefits from “fireside chats” where other team members share their experience of learning, and how their unique traits helped them</li>
<li>Benefits from being seen and respected outside of work assignments</li>
</ul>

Anxieties: Self-Affirmation Anxiety

This might occur with people who are unsure about their self-worth and relate their self-worth excessively to their performance at work.
Anxieties about performance validation, “how much is good enough”, impostor syndrome.
<ul>
<li>Needs and enjoys frequent performance feedback with both praise for achievements and constructive suggestions for areas of improvement.</li>
<li>Benefits from clarity about the reward structure.</li>
<li>Benefits from clear project outlines and strategy.</li>
<li>At risk of over-work and poor work-life balance</li>
</ul>

Anxieties: Performance Anxiety

This might occur with people who are hyper-aware of power dynamics and are afraid (or legitimately at risk) of being penalized by the group; either from past trauma, upbringing circumstances or ongoing experience in other social spheres.
<ul>
<li>Needs the team to spell out work responsibilities explicitly and upfront.</li>
<li>Needs the team to spell out governance rules explicitly: who is responsible for what, in particular:</li>
<li>who is responsible for offering help or support in case something unexpected happens.</li>
<li>what process to use to disclaim responsibility about an area of work.</li>
</ul>

Anxieties: Social Safety Anxiety

How to deal with different learning styles and anxieties

Say, you’re tasked with onboarding a new teammate, a new co-worker. You don’t know them well yet, but you want them to become effective at what the team does, quickly. You also want to quickly shore up their confidence, if that’s also needed. How to get there …

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Understanding the Beginner’s Mind  - How to deal with different learning styles and anxieties

Today's employees want a manager who is invested in their personal and professional development. They want frequent feedback -- and opportunities to do more of what they do best. They want to consistently grow as they pursue a compelling purpose.In this new world, the best path to an exceptional employee experience -- not to mention, high performance -- is for employees to have a coach, not a boss.

The Boss Is Obsolete

Quick-fix coaching programs haven't made coaching intuitive or accessible.These transactional trainings don't prepare managers because they lack real-world applications and practical coaching behaviours.Also, many managers have misconceptions about coaching, such as:<ul><li>Coaching is like therapy.</li><li>Coaching is time-consuming.</li><li>Coaching is the same as independent executive coaching.</li></ul>

The State Of Coaching

Coaching starts with asking more and telling less -- becoming more inquisitive about employees as human beings. What do employees need? What are their strengths? What are their goals?Then, the best coaches listen to understand. They listen to truly comprehend employees' circumstances, goals, challenges and needs.

Coaching Behaviours: Being Curious

Coaches are curious for a reason: They use discoveries about employees' motivations, concerns and aspirations to demonstrate care and dismantle barriers to performance and engagement.The point is to have an authentic, ongoing dialogue with the individual to identify their top concerns and show support accordingly.

Coaching Behaviours: Supporting With Genuine Conversations

<ul><li>Coaches set clear expectations and performance goals, and they hold employees accountable for those targets. </li><li>Coaches are future-focused when it comes to performance -- whereas bosses typically look for errors and punish performance mistakes.</li><li>Great coaches also focus on each worker's one-of-a-kind strengths, which helps them individualize their leadership style. </li><li>By emphasizing employees' strengths, coaches cultivate employees' natural abilities and position teams for excellence.</li></ul>

Coaching Behaviours: Focusing on Performance, Strengths and Engagement

Like all employees, managers take their cues from leaders -- so leaders must create buy-in by providing the resources, development and accountability managers need. For leaders, preparing managers to coach requires more than asking them to start coaching.

The Role Of The Leader

To abandon traditional bossing and start coaching, managers need coaching themselves from leaders who genuinely care. When leaders support managers, they can make coaching systemic in their organization -- part of "how we do things around here" (the culture) -- and equip managers to succeed.

The Role Of The Leader: Become A Coach For The Manager

Excessive complicated administrative tasks make it difficult for managers to prioritize conversations with employees. And burned out, overworked managers will find it difficult to muster enthusiasm for coaching. In fact, reducing administrative tasks could better engage your best managers. This is why leaders must redefine and clarify managers' role expectations and performance metrics. Leaders don't have to design a whole new management structure; they can just modify expectations and resources to align with coaching goals.

The Role Of The Leader: Change Job Expectations

People join companies, but they leave managers. Because today's employees demand something different from their job, coaching is a must for managers. Plus, coaching creates an environment of high development, which is the most productive type of culture for your business and your employees. Coaching accelerates everything from collaboration and agility to performance and productivity.

The Role Of The Leader: Developing Managers

Coaching becomes approachable when managers have access to proven development. Best of all, coaches have a ripple effect that extends beyond bottom-line measures like turnover. When managers serve as coaches, they can improve employees' lives and wellbeing.

The Bottom Line

Coaching employees and leading teams is the job of the manager. But ensuring those managers work in a culture where coaching is encouraged? That’s the job of a leader.

Don't Overcomplicate the Best Management Practice: Coaching

Imposter Syndrome is that inner voice telling you that your work is not good enough or, even worse, that you’re useless as a person.
<ul>
<li>Self-criticism can really put (and keep) us down.</li>
<li>Suffering from ‘imposter syndrome’ is common among most of us.</li>
<li>Even with those people where you least expect it, they often suffer from some form of self-criticism. </li>
<li>Creativity comes from relaxing self-evaluation and self-judgment – and the self-criticism and self-doubt that result from them.</li>
<li>Feeling like an imposter can impact one’s ability to be creative or try things.</li>
</ul>

Imposter Syndrome And Creative People

Instead of applying self-criticism, we need to actively practice the opposite: self-compassion. Self-compassion is realising that self-criticism is the enemy and then acting to reverse its negative effects. Self-compassion also helps to unlock creativity. The two components of self-compassion:<ol><li>Making a conscious effort to stop self-judgment.</li><li>Actively comforting ourselves, the same as we would do with a friend in need.</li></ol>

Replace Self-Criticism With Self-Compassion

Awareness of your inner critical voice is crucial. This then enables you to see your critical thoughts for what they are: thoughts.
Being more aware of what your brain and mind do when sensing a potential threat in the form of being judged and receiving criticism will encourage the development of a calmer part of the mind.

Recognizing The Inner Critical Voice

There are a number of so-called cognitive distortions that are relevant to the Inner Critic: <ul><li>Mental filters, or selective abstraction.</li><li>Tunnel vision.</li><li>Magnification and Minimisation or binocular trick.</li><li>Overgeneralizations</li><li>Jumping to conclusions</li><li>Mind reading or hunches.</li><li>Pessimism and catastrophizing a given situation by imagining the worst.</li><li>Emotional reasoning.</li><li>Thinking in All or Nothing terms(Black or White)</li><li>Ignoring positive aspects of a situation</li><li>Thinking everything is our own fault</li><li>Mislabeling of characterizations</li></ul>

Cognitive Distortions

The good thing about negative confirmation bias is that it can be flipped to create a positive full-filling prophecy too. 
Rather than walking around in a perpetual state of feeling that no one believes in you, you can be on the hunt for support. Take confirmation and use it as a force for good to seek out positivity rather than negativity.

Seeking Positive Confirmation

Something happens and we imagine the absolute worst. Our mind plays tricks and we start ‘awfulizing’.
To stop this:
<ul>
<li>First, on a piece of paper or in a journal, write down and answer the question: What I am afraid will happen? </li>
<li>Next, write down a response to this question: What could happen?</li>
</ul>
If we actively apply realistic optimism, looking at the facts of the situation at hand without embellishing or minimising them, we can avoid a ‘spiralling’ effect.

Awfulizing

There are a number of valuable tips to help you learn to take criticism well and use it to get better at whatever you are doing:
<ul>
<li>Breathe.</li>
<li>Detach from the situation or event mentally.</li>
<li>Listen actively.</li>
<li>Get specific demands and relevant, constructive criticism.</li>
<li>Discover new perspectives.</li>
<li>Be curious.</li>
<li>Grow.</li>
<li>Learn in real time.</li>
</ul>

Living With Criticism

Letting go of our preoccupation with the trajectory of other people’s lives, we can transform our envy from a stagnant, blocking force into a powerful motivator for growth. The tools and ideas above help us reframe our self-criticism; seeing critical thoughts for what they are and combating them with compassionate thoughts.

From Stagnation To Action

Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticise others.

Moving from self-criticism to self-compassion

Silence the Voice of Self Doubt “Banish Your Inner Critic provides knowledge, insight, tools and practice for getting unstuck and expressing full creative potential." ?Rebecca Stockley, Co-Founder of BATS Improv in San Francisco CA Are you ready to boost your personal productivity—minus the fear and loathing? Are you ready to Banish Your Inner Critic and unleash the creative ideas and personal productivity within you? Help is on the way! Blocked creative ideas. Everybody has one, an inner critic that tells you that others have more talent, you’re just faking it, and that you’ll never have those great creative ideas that seem just out of reach. This inner critic is a subconscious deterrent that stands between the seeds of great creative ideas and the fruits of achievement. It afflicts us with a mental block as deadlines approach, makes us so afraid of being judged that we hold ourselves back and don’t share our expertise, forces us to question our ability to learn ideas and technologies quickly; and makes us doubt, discount, and kill our ideas before they see the light of day. Find a world of creative ideas. Denise Jacobs is a speaker, author and creativity evangelist who speaks at web conferences and consults with tech companies worldwide. As the Founder and Chief Creativity Evangelist of "The Creative Dose", she teaches techniques to make the creative process more fluid, how to make work environments more conducive to personal productivity, and practices for sparking innovation. Now, in Banish Your Inner Critic, Denise Jacobs shows you how to defeat barriers that are holding you back and achieve success through a positive mental attitude. Banish Your Inner Critic and: Identify and quiet the voice of self-doubt Master three powerful practices to transform how you relate to yourself and your creativity Generate more creative ideas than ever before If you’re a fan of books such as The Artist’s Way or The War of Art, you should read Banish Your Inner Critic.

Banish Your Inner Critic

Finding the perfect job takes time, patience and the right resources. The time it takes for you to find a job may vary depending on your industry, location and level of experience. 
It might seem counterintuitive, but the more experienced you are, the longer it may take you to find a job, because employers may see you as overqualified. But there are some ways you can make the search more constructive.

Finding A Perfect Job: Where To Search

One of the most powerful things you can do when searching for jobs is actively networking. It can be awkward and, for people who aren’t naturally outgoing, requires a bit of courage, initiative and self-discipline.<ul><li>Start with friends and people you know.</li><li>Find people who have similar jobs to the one you are seeking.</li><li>Force yourself out of your comfort zone.</li><li>Know that people genuinely enjoy your interest in them.</li></ul>

Learn how to network

Looking at online job boards is an efficient way to find opportunities. <ul><li>Glassdoor: Glassdoor is known as a resource for researching a potential employer. </li><li>LinkedIn: A “professional social network” where aside from job listings, you can potentially reach decision makers at the companies you wish to apply to.</li><li>SimplyHired: This site can flag job openings to you based on your location. </li><li>Upwork: If you are looking for freelance gigs, there are a wealth of job opportunities on Upwork. </li></ul>You can find many other sites like Ladder and Indeed, based on your industry.

Searching Online Job Sites

You can streamline your search using boards that cater to certain pay levels, or based on employee and interviewee feedback.As you find and apply for jobs, check that you have everything—from your resume to your online image—in order to land the job you want.

Key takeaways from job boards

Professional organizations can be a useful way to network with people in your industry and give you access to jobs that might not be widely found on the job boards we mentioned above. In addition, they can be a resource to learn which skills you should learn and how to do so.JobStars has a list of professional organizations you can use as a starting point for finding one relevant for your search.

Join a professional network

Agencies and recruiters can maximize your search potential by actively looking for work for you. Once they have familiarized themselves with your skills and experience, they can be an additional resource pounding the pavement to help you land your dream job. Keep in mind agencies and recruiters will receive a fee from the employer for placing you, and companies only work with a preferred list of agencies and recruiters.

Get an advocate and work with placement agencies

You can find lists of recruiters and agencies by industry on JobStars. Other websites where you can find recruiters include SearchFirm, Online Recruiters Directory and Recruiterly. For creative jobs, a great place to look is Aquent.

Finding Recruiters

Searching online postings isn’t the only way to find vacancies. Use these networking tips to build professional relationships and find your next career move.

Where to Search for Jobs: Finding Your Next Opportunity

Having routinary days for months on end will eventually make time feel like it's slipping through our fingers.
As Marc Wittman, psychologist and time researcher said, "routine kills our memory for respective intervals". New experiences make indents in our memories thus giving us the perception of lengthened time.
When nothing meaningful happens to us our brains don't have anything for it to record.

Time Going Too Fast

<ol><li>Switch up your daily routine! Any small changes can make time "feel" longer. It doesn't have to be expensive or time intensive.</li><li>Go out and do something safely. Maybe visit your friends, talk to your neighbor, or even travel.</li><li>If you have goals, make small steps to achieve them. Break them down into actionable pieces.</li><li>Actively notice new things.</li><li>Being present makes time feel slower, so try meditating!</li><li>Keep track of the passing days with a diary or a journal, you can even take photos and stick them in there.</li><li>Cut yourself some slack and be kind to yourself.</li></ol>

Making Time "Slow Down"

After a lost year in the pandemic, you might be feeling like time is slipping through your fingers. Here's how to stop it.

How to Make Time Slow Down

Many motivational speakers have mentioned the three to four hour biological limit of creative work that can be accomplished in a day.
Great polymaths and thinkers highlight this short amount of working hours when the creative juices flow.
Manual labour, which is mostly assembly line work, or mindless administrative chores like creating reports can be done for far longer.

Four-Hour Creativity Limit

Instead of managing our work schedule for the entire day, it is best to earmark a time block for three to four hours of undisturbed focus work every day, preferably when the energy levels are optimal.We need to understand the hard limit of four hours and not try to produce meaningful work by pushing ourselves all the time.

Set Aside Four Hours

Time Management

Simplify Your Time Management With the 'Rule of 4' | Inc.com

“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”

Momentum is created or destroyed every day with the first few decisions you make.
If you learn to master your day, you’ll learn how to master your weeks, months, years, and life.

Become very good at living each day

<ol>
<li>Nutrition: Quality of food you put into your body matters.
</li>
<li>Oxygen: The amount of oxygen your brain gets determines how well it functions.
</li>
<li>Information: If the brain isn’t firing, it’s not wiring, and this ages it.
</li>
<li>Love: The brain thrives on physical touch and emotional connection.
</li>
</ol>

The things your brain needs in order to thrive

Your brain is more creative in the morning and more analytical at night.
Use your analytical evening strength to provide a simple plan and starting-point so your creative morning brain can run wild when you first wake up.

We are creative in the morning and analytical at night

You live your life in 24 hour periods. How you use those 24 hour periods determines who you become and how successful you'll be. If you learn to master your day, you'll learn how to master your weeks, months, years, and life. All you need to do is become very, very good at living each day.

Tell Me What You Did Today, And I'll Tell You Who You Are

Procrastination is more about our emotions than our tendencies for laziness or just being “bad at deadlines”. At its core, we procrastinate to keep ourselves happy in the moment.We procrastinate because our brains are wired to care more about our present comfort than our future happiness.

Why we procrastinate

We have two ways of dealing with our procrastination:<ol><li>Make whatever we’re procrastinating on feel less uncomfortable, and</li><li>Convince our present selves into caring about our future selves.</li></ol>

How to overcome your procrastination habit

Often starting a task is the biggest hurdle. Research shows that progress—no matter how small—can be a huge motivator to help us keep going.Set the timer for just 5 or 10 minutes. While the timer’s running, you don’t have to work, but you can’t do anything else. You have to sit with your work, even if you don’t get started.

Make getting started ridiculously easy

Since negative emotions are the cause of our procrastination, what if we could manage our negative emotions while working?Behavioral economist Dan Ariely calls this method reward substitution. It is essentially getting yourself to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

The right thing for the wrong reason

When my work directly affects others, I find it much harder to accept the consequences of procrastinating.You could ask a friend or colleague to help you get started on something you’ve been putting off.

Ask for help

Encouraging people to imagine the future can help them make better decisions now.<ul><li>Looking at a digitally aged photograph can help us more effectively imagine ourselves in the future, thus helping us make better decisions.</li><li>Realistically imagine how you’ll feel tomorrow if you’re trying the old “I’ll feel like doing this tomorrow” excuse. </li></ul><h3></h3>

Imagine the future

<ul><li>Reframe your task into a challenge.  “What if you got this work done before lunchtime? </li><li>Challenge yourself to stay focused on a single task for as long as possible: … try a count-up timer. See how long you can remain on task. See if you can beat your last record…</li><li>Work away from your desk. " it’s a lot harder to believe I’m doing “real work”.</li><li>C<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dont-delay/201310/i-have-do-it-or-i-want-do-it">hanging your attitude</a> toward the task. Think of your task as something you want to get done, to help adjust your motivation to be more internal.</li></ul>

Reframe your task and its deadline

“Structured procrastination” is a clever way to stay productive even while you procrastinate. Procrastinating doesn't mean you are doing absolutely nothing.Next time you feel the urge to procrastinate, go for it. Avoid that Big Scary Task that makes you feel really uncomfortable. Instead, work on more important things than what you’re avoiding.

Let yourself avoid uncomfortable tasks

Set a timer for 30 minutes. During that time stay focused on your work. When the timer goes off, set it again for 10 minutes, and rewards yourself with a fun activity like YouTube videos, chatting with friends, or reading a book. After 10 minutes, reset the 30-minute timer and get back to work.

Use a timer

Forgiving yourself for procrastinating can help you overcome negative feelings about the work you’ve put off in the past, so you can more easily approach future tasks.

Forgive yourself

I've read all the articles and listened to all the podcasts about procrastination. I've tried all the tricks-including literally trying to trick myself. Sometimes hacks work. Sometimes an article about how bad a habit procrastination is will kick me into gear and help me get things done early for a change.

Beyond Time Management: Why We Really Procrastinate and How to Finally Stop - Ambition & Balance

A dream is the root of all success, for having a dream does not limit you on what you can do. Successful people allow themselves to lean back and imagine the kind of life that is possible for them.

Make Dream a Reality

Clarity. Have a clear vision of your desires and future to help you stay focused on your goals. Competence. Commit yourself to doing something that enables you to become better at doing the most important things in your field. Concentration. Persevere, without diversion or distraction, in a straight line toward accomplishing your goals.

Keys to Living Without Limits

What restraints you from achieving your goals? Are they learned feelings of helplessness? Or are they just simply excuses? Remember, whatever you have learned, you can unlearn. If your real goal is to dream big dreams and to live without limits, you can set this as your standard and compare everything that you do against it.

Identifying Productivity Constraints

“When your goals are clear, you will come up with exactly the right answer at exactly the right time”

<ul><li>Assess your goals. Work on the most valuable all the time.</li><li>Work on the tasks with the greatest impact.</li><li>Think like a wealthy person. Do what one does.</li></ul>

Applying the 80/20 Rule in Goal Setting

The 80 20 rule is one of the most helpful concepts for life and time management. Also known as the Pareto Principle, this rule suggests that 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results . This being the case, you should change the way you set goals forever.

The 80 20 Rule Explained (a.k.a. Pareto Principle) | Brian Tracy

It's a bad habit to have when it's the end of the workday yet you still feel guilty that maybe you haven't done enough, so you continue working even though it isn't the time to do so anymore.
Keeping up with this practice will only lead our bodies to be exhausted, overworked, and burnt out.

Working with guilt and fear

<ol>
<li>Recognize when you're feeling guilty and afraid that you didn't do enough. Take note of the feeling and slowly let the feeling go, with no judgments.</li>
<li>Let yourself pause and breathe. Be kind to yourself.</li>
<li>Remind yourself that you're allowed to do other things aside from work. Being able to rest is important so that you'll be able to give your best the next time you go to work.</li>
<li>Take the rest. Enjoy the space you have for yourself.</li>
</ol>

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Understanding the Beginner’s Mind - How to deal with different learning styles and anxieties

Don't Overcomplicate the Best Management Practice: Coaching

Banish Your Inner Critic

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Understanding the Beginner’s Mind - How to deal with different learning styles and anxieties

Don't Overcomplicate the Best Management Practice: Coaching

Banish Your Inner Critic

Where to Search for Jobs: Finding Your Next Opportunity

How to Make Time Slow Down

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