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As a mentor at work, I like to checkpoint results.  While I can do area-specific coaching, I tend to take a more holistic approach.  For me, it’s more rewarding to find ways to unleash somebody’s full potential and improve their overall effectiveness.  Aside from checking against specific goals, I use the following frame to gauge progress.
Improvement FrameHere’s the categories I use:

Thinking / Feeling
Situation
Time / Task Management
Domain Knowledge
Strategies / Approaches
Relationships

Improvement FrameHere’s a sampling of the questions I use.

Area
Prompts

Thinking / Feeling

Do you find …

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Wanna learn more effectively and be a better teacher?  Learn to match or bridge learning styles.  It’s one of those things you do everyday, but you might not be aware of.  It’s about how you sequence information and how you relate to it.  The key is to first know your own preferences, and then  understand others.
Concrete, Abstract, Random, Sequential
Here’s the parts that make up the styles:

Concrete - You’re dealing with the here and now and processing information based on what you see, hear, think, feel, and taste.  …

Want to have a place to put your lifetime of learning? Organize your mind with a personal memory house.   You effectively decorate your memory scenes with ideas and thoughts.  You can then remember anything simply by walking through your memory scenes.  In Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion, Jay Heinrichs writes about how the ancients used these personal memory villas to deliver great speeches and store a lifetime of learning.
Creating an Inventory of Thoughts
Heinrichs writes that the ancients …