Effective Learning/Training

Teaching vs. Learning

Teaching is to educate or train or motivate someone on something, while learning means to get education or training or motivation. Literally, teaching is to give lessons to students in a school, college, university, etc. Primarily, teacher provides required knowledge/skills to children and adults, but, eventually, teacher actualizes potential possibilities of learners into actual realities through knowledge dissemination / skill transmission, so that a knowledgeable / skillful person is inevitable for effective teaching. In addition, teachers shape thought-patterns and behavior-patterns of learners through multiple educational practices. Concisely, teaching is to provide knowledge, to build character, and to enhance wisdom level. Teaching is either formal or informal. The formal teaching is disciplined and coordinated, while the informal teaching is personal and atypical. Formal teaching is provided through educational institutions while informal teaching is common phenomenon of interactive life. At institutional level, teaching and learning are two distinct processes – teaching is more akin to leadership and management, on the other hand, learning is more akin to research and development.

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Business Skills

Significance of Business Skills & Skill Enhancement Programs

(Entrepreneurial Approach)

SKILL is defined as the ability to do something well. The skill profile is a tool for the realization of organization's philosophy, values, and vision. It is utmost important for the implementation of any business strategy. It leads towards best utilization of resources, human as well as non-human. It develops ability of organization, structural as well as operational. In addition, an efficient and effective system of skills provides best guidelines for evaluation & adjustment of business processes. Skill profile is improved or maintained through a well-defined framework of reward structure of institutional system.

A deficiency in skills, conventional as well as innovative, tends to produce less than optimal returns on efforts, excessive efforts are made by economic agents but moderate returns are achieved. It is noteworthy; a skill deficiency phenomenon has two aspects - qualitative and quantitative. The quantitative deficiency can be managed trough hiring more skilled staff, a horizontal expansion of skill profile, while the qualitative deficiency is reduced through some skill enhancement program of existing staff members, a vertical expansion of skill profile

The inevitability and desirability of Skill Enhancement Program has two levels – individual as well as collective. At individual level the skill enhancement urge is outcome of livelihood urge for survival & interdependency phenomena of individuals. At collective level the skill enhancement demand is outcome of survival, growth, & development needs of an institution or society. According to the World Bank, a faster and sustainable economic growth requires three fundamental factors: Human Capital, Physical Capital, and Natural Capital. Interestingly, human capital has a major share (64 per cent).

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Excellent Student

An excellent student achieves best academic results and manifests admirable character. She/he is personification of collective efforts of multiple individuals such as teachers, parents, educational managers and varied institutions such as educational institutions, social institutions, government bodies, and education board. The article is a rational-moral critique on Excellent Student / Excellent Learning Behavior.

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Significance of Teamwork

Shaping An Excellent Team

At institutional level, an achievement is result of teamwork. An effective team is combination of synergetic strategies / tactics of institution. A synergic setting is innovatively woven environment of diverse individuals; it is competitive as well as cooperative. A competitive situation makes someone active or dynamic, while cooperative condition makes someone interactive and associative. It is dominantly responsibility of managers/entrepreneurs to design competitive-cooperative environ for team members. An enabling working environment is sustainable strength of well-performing institution. An institutional input thus plays an important role in making/shaping an excellent team.

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Effective Entrepreneurship - Essential Skills

Skill Profile of An Effective Entrepreneur 

Practically, an entrepreneur needs some professional skills, a few social skills, and handful personal skills. Firstly, an effective entrepreneur have clear understanding about needed professional skills, moreover, she/he has staunch desire for professional acumen. Secondly, life is interactive phenomenon. People interact during countless occasions of life. An interaction is either productive or non-productive. It is social intelligence or social skills of an entrepreneur that prepares for productive interactions. A productive interaction is win-win and stable.  Thirdly, a sizeable portion of day is spent on personal activities such as sleeping, chatting, and exercising. The leisure time relaxes and prepares for next round of professional or interactive life. It is noteworthy that proper application of personal skills avoids boredom, fatigue, lethargy, and regrets from personal life. The prominent personal skills are: subjective thinking, lateral thinking, collective brainstorming, driving vehicles, setting social links, repairing things, gardening, increasing physical strength & stamina, writing creatively, expressing feelings through art work, capturing memorable moments through photography, etc.. A stable combination of personal, social, and economic skills is inevitable repertoire of an effective entrepreneur. 

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Optimal Time management Part II

Now I am posting second and detailed part of my Optimal time management blog. I hope it will help.

Time-Task Duality (Divine Perspective)

Time has two dimensions inner or personal and outer or universal.
At personal level time is creative impulse of self-expression and linked with some memorable immaterial activities, while at universal level time is outcome of lunar/solar/celestial phenomena and linked with memorable material activities.
The creative urge of Omnipotent linked with memorable immaterial activities is Absolute Time, a solely divine attribute. The Absolute Time created its numerous counterparts, i.e., multiple relative times.
The matter-oriented time is relative or serial time, while the urge-oriented time is Absolute Time.
Man is vice-regent of Allah, the very basis of human life-pattern is existential- pattern of God. Allah accomplishes any task accommodating the time, both absolute and relative.
A divine-oriented approach towards time-task duality makes the mankind time-efficient and leads, ultimately, towards effective life-pattern.


Priority Setting

A priority setting should be based on two elements - importance and urgency – A task is composition of various mixtures of these elements. We can set priority list as follows:
Important & urgent (top priority)
Important & less urgent (second priority)
Less important & urgent (third priority)
Less important & less urgent (last priority)
The important activities are supportive for goal materialization, while urgent activities demand quick fixing. The urgent activities do not fulfill, normally, our goals, they fulfill, generally, the goals of others.
Wisdom is needed to define importance and urgency.


General Guidelines

The general guidelines for effective priority-setting are:
Pick the future possibilities against the past glories.
Focus on the opportunity rather than on problems.
Choose your own direction rather than climb on the bandwagon.
Aim high and better.


Prime Time

Parkinson’s Law states that work expands to fill the available time. That is, more time is spent on a specific job without considering the time duration of a job.
Time efficiency is spoiled by ignoring time-task duality.
In prime time evaluation, we assess and integrate the job and prime time – prime time is the time at which the person can produce best performance in his work..
It is important to note that coordination between work schedule and prime time enhances the productivity of an individual about 15 to 20 percent.
The assessment of prime time for staff and setting their activities to prime time will make them more efficient and productive. As a result, the whole system will produce


Prime Motive - Performance

An organization is created to materialize certain goals & objectives.
Any result-oriented effort towards multiple goals & objectives is effective, generally, for organizational development, so that, the prime motive behind countless efforts must be performance.
Moreover, for highest performance, it is important to utilize strengths not weaknesses.
The performance–oriented efforts are distorted due to countless reasons.
The Major time wasters in a system are Lack of Proper Delegation System, Overstaffed or Understaffed Environ, Non-incentive Reward Structure, Malfunctions in Information, Excessive Meetings or Large Size of Meeting Staff or Boundless Agenda of Meetings, & Miscommunication.


Developing Time Management Skills

Develop a logbook, formal or informal, to ascertain WHERE the time is going on?
Deciding the activity plan for important/urgent activities to assess WHAT tasks are worthy to tackle?
Evaluating Prime time to judge HOW much time is needed for different set of activities?
Finalizing the work-plan to know WHEN to execute an activity?
A work-plan is prepared on several bases, it is daily or weekly or monthly or yearly. It is noteworthy that the more time we spend on work planning; the less total time is required for the whole task.
Time-efficiency will improve with these practices, consequentially, the optimal time management expertise will be developed in someone’s life.

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Ilyas