Oct 18
The Supermemo Model
How do you remember everything?
How do you go about remembering all the information you get and want to keep … and how do you keep it in memory for a long time?
Long term memory has two components: retrievability and stability. In other words, how close is the memory to our consciousness and how deeply engrained is the information from that memory.
Here is an example of retrievability:
Look at this number 2,348,129 now look away and try to remember the number in order. Not too difficult, especially if you cheat a little.
Now try to remember the room number of the hotel you stayed at last year … go on, it’s a much shorter number … not so memorable? If it is, try the year before that, and before that, and so on.
As far as stability is concerned:
Remember of something personal. Anything you can remember from your childhood is stable information. What are the first four digits of Ï€? If you’re not a mathematician, what does a cookie remind you of? Cookie monster? It’s deeply anchored in your mind.
The Supermemo Model is concerned with transforming retrievable memories into stable memories by tracking how often you forget a memory you want to remember. Every time you forget the memory, remind yourself – the intervals of forgetting will become farther apart, and you will exercise your brain to remember something longer!
It’s not what you know, it’s what you remember ~ Jan Cox”
This model is from The Decision Book. Please make sure to visit 50 Top Models – the author’s website. If you like what you see, buy the book!
Posted by Salem
Oct 17
What makes you Happy?
How Happy Are You?
At some point, we all fall to one of two misfortunes:
- Being tasked with a monstrous and seemingly impossible job.
- Hitting ourselves over the head with a blunt object hoping that an excruciatingly boring job comes to an end
Somewhere in between those two lies a dynamic sweet spot; always keeping you on your toes as it changes place.
Where does your sweet spot lie? It’s when you are:
Intensely focused on an activity of your own choosing, that is neither under challenging (boreout) nor over challenging (burn out), that has a clear objective, and that receives immediate feedback.
Can you think of a time when you hit your sweet spot?
This model is from The Decision Book. Please make sure to visit 50 Top Models – the author’s website. If you like what you see, buy the book!
Posted by Salem
Oct 11
Hersey-Blanchard Model
Hersey-Blanchard Model for Situational Leadership
The Hersey-Blanchard Model is a tool to manage and direct people based on situational factors. The model consists of two parts: a process (top) and a matrix (graph).
The matrix is a tool designed for leaders and reads from right to left starting with S1 (Situation 1: Directing) to S4 (Situation 4: Delegating). The process follows each situation describing the state of direct reports (or followers if you will).
Directing: is concerned with instructing highly committed people who have yet to develop the necessary set of skills to execute tasks. At this stage, direct reports are attributed with high commitment and low competence.
Coaching: Despite rising competence, the levels of commitment have fallen – leaders are required to increase their supportive behaviour by asking challenging questions and allowing direct reports to solve problems.
Supporting: Employees in this stage have high levels of competence and varying commitment levels – they may resign – and leaders have to increase their supportive behaviour; focusing less on directing reports.
Delegating: Employees are highly competent and in control of their own projects. These employees can lead their own teams and develop them in a similar fashion.
Have a think about where you sit – in both parts of the models. Use the model to successfully navigate from one end to the next. The reservation I have about this model is that it is very linear and fails to describe fall back strategies.
This model is from The Decision Book. Please make sure to visit 50 Top Models – the author’s website. If you like what you see, buy the book!
Posted by Salem
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