Time Management Tools MindTools.com: Various articles and self assessment tools show you how to effectively schedule your day by setting priorities, including contingency times. Also gives advice on how to prevent over-committing. https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_07.htm [2] Work Life Balance: Gives short, practical tips on how to end procrastination. http://www.worklifebalance.com...

A key postulate of traditional theories of motor skill-learning (e.g., Fitts and Posner, 1967; Shiffrin and Schneider, 1977) is that expert performance is largely automatic in nature and tends to deteriorate when the performer "reinvests" in, or attempts to exert conscious control over, proceduralized movements (Masters and Maxwell, 2008). This postulate is challenged, however, by recent empiri...

BACKGROUND AND AIM As part of the process of nursing students becoming 'work ready' within future health care teams, students need the skills to work collaboratively. In higher education, establishing group work assignments is a teaching method to develop group work skills. Not only is group work an important teaching method to develop effective group work skills but it is also used to activate...

The Effect of Teaching Approaches on Preschoolers’ Social Skills N. Mohammadi, Ph.D. M. Mesteri Social skills can be better fostered by teaching approaches that emphasize group work. Such skills include self-control, academic self-efficacy, persistence, leadership skills, and social communication. Teaching approaches also include work unit and project approaches. To explore ...

We study a worker’s incentives to acquire skills that cannot be verified by a third party. We do this within the context of recent innovative work practices, where jobs have become more flexible. Because flexible jobs are difficult to verify by a court, standard approaches in the literature, where firms use contracts on jobs to commit to reward workers for skills, may not be feasible. We sugges...