persuasive devices – Edventures

Stretch, a grow mind set

Kristian Still 6 Oct ’12 9 Oct ’12

This morning I responded to @HuntingEnglish when he retweet a Guy Claxton comment. Ability is not fixed, it is elastic, and your environment either stretches it or not. Guy Claxton Like my colleague I believe in a growth mind set. In …

Back in the car driving to work with Gayle Allen29 Jun ’25
I first picked up Gayle on the way to work back in May, 2017. With her, was Mick Ebeling, and I heard about Mick’s philosophy “to help one, to help many.” The next journey in, before the BIG ONE, that I can remember, Gayle brought …
Borrowing from sports – Markus Krosche16 Jun ’25
Sport is a microcosm of society with quantifiable outcomes. It is a fertile source of leadership discussion and observation. Quantifiable results are laid bare for all to see. Sports scenarios offer all types of leader expose, all flavours of leader: crisis/interim leader (Hodgson), the ‘bold’ …
Suffering and successful failures17 Dec ’24
It is a well rehearsed narrative, that we learn, gain, benefit more from our loses than from our triumphs. More from adversity than from our easy successes. Loses, adversity, often serves as the crucible in which our triumphs and our successes are forged. Matthew McConaughey …
Unresolvable problems16 Dec ’24
This was an unfinished post I first drafted six months ago when I was still in education as a Deputy Headteacher. Funnily enough, it is as relevant to my new role as COO and so I looked to finish and post it. It is certainly …