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Bobbi Stedman, a Business and Leadership major, recently completed her Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio, earning 35 credits for knowledge that she gained through her professional and personal experiences. She wrote for the following courses: Team Building: Managing Work Groups Great Meetings! Planning and Facilitating Difficult Group Discussion Leadership Communication Managing Transitions Conflict Management Negotiation Legal [...]

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Why have I not written in PrattleNog lately? Um, work-life balance. (Alas, I’ve written about *that* before.) Why am I posting now? Because TED posted a video with Nigel March about work-life balance that I want to share. Marsh’s main message is comprised of these key points: Achieving work-life balance is up to each of [...]

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I never get to say this to anyone — and I would NEVER say it to my students in so many words — but let me say it here, now. Just this once. Because if I don’t say it here, now, just this once, my head might explode and I might actually say it out [...]

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“Action expresses priorities.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi Yes. And no. I firmly believe in something I like to call “productive procrastination.” Productive procrastination is about priorities.  It’s also about mindfully multi-tasking. And it can be done. Productive procrastination is when I clean the shower while writing an article in my head, instead of actually writing the [...]

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Angela Pernisco, a Psychology major, just completed her PLA portfolio for 15 credits, all in Communications topics: CCM 320 Public Presentations CCM 323 Effective Listening CCM 324 Nonverbal Communication CCM 346 Conflict Management (with the grade of “A”!) CCM 356 Intercultural Communication Angela wrote this in her final Reflection Essay: When I began the PLA [...]

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Time management and the need for constant prioritization and re-prioritization seem to be perennial challenges for adult learners and instructors alike! In another nifty post, my colleague and friend Harriet Schwartz from The Encouragement Lounge shares some fabulous  strategies for what you can do when you’re so overwhelmed you don’t even know where to begin: [...]

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Sometimes we just need help. Adult learners balance precariously on very thin beams. Our attentions are divided among our professional obligations, our kids, our parents, our bills, our pets, our partners, our lawns that need mowing and our laundry that needs washing. And oh, did I mention that essay to write, that study group to [...]

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Preparing Yet Another To Do List

I had just finished creating yet another to-do list with a million and one items on it (all to be done by yesterday), and then a colleague shared this quote in a meeting today: Time is the only thing that is preventing us from getting everything done right away. I have no idea who originally [...]

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When adults come to or come back to college, I think many advisors and friends ask them this question: So what will you give up? I’ve been giving a lot of thought to this because I am working with a group of students this term who have been asked this very question and are trying [...]

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