Monthly Archives: April 2017

Stories

The Dutch Roots of Ithaca’s Dey Street

Source: The Dutch Roots of Ithaca’s Dey Street

Communications

CoRT Thinking

CoRT Thinking…this blog is by my friend and writing colleague, Kathy Mapes. I like this technique and she does a great job of explaining it.

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CoRT Thinking–

One cold Saturday in March, I partook of a workshop led by Claire Perez, a member of my Lansing Writers’ Group, at Lansing Community Library.  When we made it to the audience participation part, she had us go through three writing exercises.   The CoRT Thinking exercise is the one I’m sharing with you below.  Claire ran into this exercise at an education conference.

In the website, “CorT Thinking Online, 60 Lessons in Thinking,”an Irish-based registered multimedia company called Devine media, explains the steps in Edward de Bono’s process.

de Bono designed this system as a means of practical thinking that leads to practical solutions, not so much as a way to demonstrate intelligence.  He thinks emotions are positive but that they should never take the place of “good thinking.”  He feels that the showing off of intelligence often does not lead to practical solutions to problems.  I’m not…

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Communications

#Communications Applied: Goals are CRITICAL!

This is an excellent post by Holly Munn…in life, as in communications, goal setting is critical!  Without goals, in my opinion, no matter how small, it is hard to see where we are going and why we are spending our time on things.

A lack of goals reminds me of turning on Facebook and slipping from one story or link to another only to come back, out of the sticky web, an hour later to ask myself, now where am I? what did I want to accomplish today?

To access Holly’s post, click below.  It is titled:  Tactics are sexty, goals are critical.

https://hollymunn.com/2017/03/31/tactics-are-sexy-goals-are-critcial/