On every 20th of June, we celebrate the international day of productiveness! But, on the other hand, concentration is, on the one side, ”the glue that holds together” speed reading and memorizing: in the absence of concentration, nothing of what we read could we manage to remember, nothing of what we do could have the… Read More The Connections Between Concentration, Organization, Productiveness and Modeling
I learned about the speed-reading courses in the summer of 2003 from a few English class colleagues who had participated and increased their reading speed. So, out of curiosity, in the fall of 2003, I intended to attend the courses on speed-reading and memorizing techniques delivered by Professor Radu Budei, Engineer and Inventor. Still, I… Read More How I Started My Speed Reading Adventure
Welcome! I continue today a series of articles organized in a table-like manner, starting from my own experiences: As a participant in instruction/training sessions held by others; As a consultant in training-related issues; As a trainer I have divided these” manifestations of sincerity” into 5 main categories, which I am presenting during this series: The… Read More What Trainers Haven’t Told You So Far, Part IV. Time Management. Image. Communication.
Welcome! I continue today a series of articles organized in a table-like manner, starting from my own experiences: As a participant in instruction/training sessions held by others; As a consultant in training-related issues; As a trainer I have divided these” manifestations of sincerity” into 5 main categories, which I am presenting during this series: The… Read More What Trainers Haven’t Told You So Far, Part III. The Applicability of What You Learn.
Welcome! I continue today a series of articles organized in a table-like manner, starting from my own experiences: As a participant in instruction/training sessions held by others; As a consultant in training-related issues; As a trainer I have divided these” manifestations of sincerity” into 5 main categories, which I am presenting during this series: The… Read More What Trainers Haven’t Told You So Far, Part II. The Learning Experience
Welcome! I start today with a series of articles organized in a table-like manner, starting from my own experiences: As a participant in instruction/training sessions held by others; As a consultant in training-related issues; As a trainer I have divided these ”manifestations of sincerity” into 5 main categories, which I will present during this series:… Read More What Trainers Haven’t Told You So Far, part I. The Value of What You Learn.
On the 13th of May 2019 starts, myopia awareness week, which this year has been announced as a worldwide event. Print this optotype (Romanian, English) on an A4 sheet and stick it to a door/wall at your eye level while standing. Short-sightedness (Myopia) Choose any row from a certain distance and slowly step back until you… Read More A Simple Exercise for Short-Sightedness (Myopia) and Long-Sightedness (Hypermetropia)
Let’s say that you are the client of a renowned coaching school with tens and hundreds of clients, and its presentation blew you away. You don’t really know what to expect. You want to grow personally and give these professionals a chance to put you on the right track to success. Congratulations! Here are 10… Read More 10 Things That the Coaching Trainer Hasn’t Told You
Let’s say that you are the client of a renowned coach who enjoys confidence and acknowledgment and has a very cool web page. You don’t really know what to expect. You want to grow personally and give a chance to this professional to fulfill your psychological and emotional needs involved in the process. Congratulations! Here… Read More 10 Things That an Experienced Coach Hasn’t Told You
Let’s say you are the client of a coach who is excited about his/her new career. However, you don’t really know what to expect. You want to grow personally and give this young man/woman a chance to fulfill your psychological and emotional needs involved in this process. Congratulations! Here are 10 things you haven’t considered… Read More 10 Things That Your Beginner Coach Hasn’t Told You
In my personal development experience, I have found that there are benefits that can be gained both from working on your own using neuro-linguistic programming instruments (for solving problems or reaching specific objectives), and from observing from the outside, and learning by demonstration and possibly from mistakes in applying particular techniques. The main goal of… Read More NLP Techniques Observation and Practice
Purpose of the endeavor This project aims to perform a 360-degree evaluation for Marcus Victor Grant and, by extension, for all his clients who wish to use this process. How this project is performed annually, for the previous year, is measuring the subjective perceptions of the persons from different networking categories with which Marcus… Read More The 360-Degrees Evaluation Devised by Marcus Victor Grant – General Principles
I invite you to read an article (the first of a new series) showing how time management influences personality: The Timeline. This is a fundamental meta-feature that dominates one’s personality, although it can vary in different contexts. “In Time” is its continuation: detailing the first main perception. In Time (partial association with the perception function,… Read More In Time
Motto: « [The Romanian] is wasteful with time, more so than people from the West. Time is anything for the Romanian but a currency. At the fair, he haggles for hours for whatnots. The same goes for parties; he loses days and nights»; «It is said that [the Romanian] is undisciplined working in the economic… Read More The Timeline
The terminology “Schema” comes from schema-focused therapy and refers to the maladaptive schemas taxonomy developed by Jeffrey Young, Ph.D., and his collaborators since the ’80s. It is the problem-oriented component of the field, using psychometric questionnaires developed and tested by scientists to evaluate which are the schemas and modes which pathologically influence the emotions,… Read More What is Schema Dynamics Programming
Psychologists have worked for more than 100 years to find explanations for how the human mind and personality work to heal the problems deep inside us. Personal development fields such as neuro-linguistic programming and transactional analysis have developed effective and efficient solutions for a successful breakthrough. However, clinical psychology and the development of excellence have… Read More Schema Dynamics Programming with Marcus Victor Grant
This article is a direct follow-up to this one and to this one. Therefore, please read them to follow the logical connections. Also, at the end of this article, you have a list of recommended articles directly connecting to the present subject. 6. Less Losing in details / Hyper-analysis Losing myself in detail with… Read More The Fight with “My Dark Side”, part II
Each person has a particular dark side. Each of us has weaknesses, which are labeled as such by others. Looking in the mirror others provide for us is always a strenuous exercise. Fighting the image of the mirror is always an illusion. Any change must come from the inside. This is the rock of personal… Read More The Fight with My Dark Side
I am processing the results from half a year ago’s 2012 360 degrees evaluation for personal branding & development. I have decided to approach the issue of the most visible and criticized weakness: the formalism I use to screen people. First of all, I want to mention an important aspect. My mother gave me an… Read More About My Excessive Formalism & the So-Called “Lack of Empathy”
Here I gave you some examples of items. I have proven how they DON’T work here. This article is part IV from a series of English articles about survey-type research focusing on quantitative measures. Please also consider this list of articles in Romanian about research. To attain the same goal in the second context, let’s… Read More Rich Item Conceptualization.
Analytic Vision 