Posts Tagged ‘competence’

Build Your Platform: How to Show You’re the Right Person for Any Job

We all deal with the problem of needing to build support for our ideas. Maybe you’re trying to sell your boss on a new program, maybe you’re trying to get a loan or grant to start a small business or to undertake a research project, or maybe you’re just trying to get a job. What do you have to do to convince your audience, whoever they are, that… » Continue

January 9 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: competence, confidence, credibility, leadership, platform | 7 comments»

Conditions for Learning

If you want learning to work for you, you must create the conditions in which exploration can take place and discoveries can be made. It’s very clear what these are. Without them, all your efforts to learn and grown will be in vain. » Continue

May 21 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, breakthrough, competence, creativity, education, learn, learning, motivation, student, study, studying, thinking, train, training | 4 comments»

Unskilled and Unaware of It

Alan Bellows has noted an interesting phenomenon - average person tends to believe he or she is better than average. Alan highlights two men’s predictions on their investigation and those predictions are well proved by their study:

Justin Kruger and David Dunning made the following predictions before beginning their investigation:

1. Incompetent individuals, compared with their more competent peers, will dramatically overestimate their ability and performance relative to objective… » Continue

March 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: competence, smart | 2 comments»