1. SMARTSKILLS® A NEW PARADIGM FOR LEARNING LANGUAGE EH! Bob Wiele OneSmartWorld TESL i3 Conference 2015

4. RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF AMERICA STUDY Poor Quality Thinking! 94%

6. Business & Education Clients

7. Amazing Authentic Awesome Beautiful Bodacious Boundless Brilliant Caring Compassionate Courageous Curious Delighted Dynamic Empowered Encouraged Energized Enlightened Enthusiastic Essential Exhilarated Fabulous Fantastic Fearless Free Generous Glorious Happy Hopeful Incredible Ingenious Insightful Inspired Invincible Jazzed Kind Liberated Lively Magnificent Marvelous Optimistic Power Words Phenomenal Powerful Remarkable Resilient Stupendous Super Tenacious Terrific Unbelievable Unstoppable Valuable Victorious Wonderful Zestful

11. From Issues to Solutions Sir Ken Robinson: Why Schools Kill Creativity The Big Why The Big What The Big How

12. EXAMPLES - Universal Common Languages Music ISO 9000 Standard Time Smile Traffic Light

13. A Universal Common Language STOP and DECIDE SLOW and UNDERSTAND GO and CREATE

16. Critical Thinking Analytical Thinking Creative Thinking Compassion Beliefs Based Gut Instinct Creative Intuition THINKING – Left Brain FEELINGS – Right Brain Cool Head and Warm Heart

17. People…

18. …think in different ways.

21. GO TO GREEN FOR CREATIVITY 1.Ideas, options or alternatives 2.New ways of looking at problems/tasks 3.A list of possibilities - what ifs 4.Imaginative insights & solutions 5.When you are stuck and need constructive options

22. Reframe Problems Into Opportunities

23. Flash of Insight

24. Key Green Words To shift focus to apply Green creativity, use these verbs: could, brainstorm, generate, reframe, challenge, expand, create, add, make, solve, draw, construct, explore, envision, contribute, inspire.

25. GO TO YELLOW FOR UNDERSTANDING 1.Seek first to understand 2.Get organized 3.Analyze information 4.Get clear on feelings and facts 5.Connect, empathize & communicate with others

26. Clarify Understanding

27. Key Cool Yellow Words To shift focus to use Cool Yellow analytical thinking, use these verbs: clarify, know, learn, scan, describe, specify, recall, study, plan, explain, understand, research, outline, organize, structure, analyze.

28. Tune-in to Feelings

29. Key Warm Yellow Words To shift focus to use Warm Yellow compassion, use these verbs: tune in, sense, hear, sympathize, encourage, support, help, facilitate, enable, connect, communicate, empathize, listen, express, learn.

30. GO TO RED FOR DECISIONS 1.Get to the crux of an issue 2.Assess critically what the problem is 3.Make a decision 3.Validate a decision 4.Decide by head, emotion or gut

31. Get to the Crux

32. Emotion Based Decision Making

33. Key Red Words To move to Cool Red decision making, use these verbs: should, must, compare, assess, decide, act, evaluate, validate, determine, focus on, conclude, demonstrate, prove, prioritize, judge.

34. Assess Skills with Bloom's Taxonomy 1. Know and 2. Understand 3. Apply 4. Analyze 5.Evaluate 6. Create 1. Basic 2. Applied 3. Advanced

35. PERSONAL SPIRIT The X Factor In Life OUTLOOK SENSE OF CONTROL INITIATIVE

36. Your Outlook

37. Key White Words To shift focus on building Personal Spirit, use these verbs: appreciate, inspire, engage, find a way, adapt, move forward, persist, bounce back, carry on, commit, recover, flex, rebound, initiate.

39. Smart Track #4: Ideas to Decisions

40. If we all agree to think the same way at the same time…

42. …we can make better decisions…

43. …and drive results together.

44. bwiele@onesmartworld.com Thank You So Much TESL i3 Conference Participants!

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