2008年9月25日星期四

SAGE PenPal Program(SPP): 高中生国际笔友招募

SAGE PenPal Program(SPP): 高中生国际笔友招募
如果您是中国的高中生,均可报名参与此次活动,与全世界的同龄人交流身边发生的事情以及世界各国同龄人眼中的全球商业变化,畅谈合作机会。

当然SAGE(Student for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship)所在学校的学生将有优先权。

具体请关注SAGE China Blog...

Here is a short description of what I have done with Sweden:

LEARNING PARTNERSHIP

What I would like to develop is a learning partnership between schools so we both can learn about global business. Each school would do research just like an actual business would in terms of what it would take to “import” things from the country, and “export” things to the other country. What the “import/export” essentially involves is a exchange of items. With our Swedish partnership we have exchanged t-shirts, candy for Swedish crystal and Swedish candy.

In addition, students would learn about each other’s culture and maybe develop a pen-pal type relationship by learning about each other. I would send a profile and names of my students, and you could do the same and they could communicate once every week or so.

Items to exchange- As far as the type of items to exchange, my initial work on this tells me that the weight of the items is important. The lighter the better. It would be nice if the products we trade could be determined by the students for their educational benefit (market research). That is something we can discuss further. Basically, it is an “exchange” of items, rather than an import/export arrangement.

Timeline- I would like to get started as soon as possible.

Communication- Internet/email would be the obvious choice.

We have had success with a school in Sweden for the last five years and would like to expand it to other countries.

Dennis Villeneuve

2008年9月23日星期二

New Comers:SFLS Brainstorming 上外附中之行





2008-2009赛季迎来SAGE China第一个新学校,她是上外附中Shanghai Foreign Language School。高一高二就是用来玩得,确实没错!总是能在第一次接触SAGE 的学生身上找到Eureka!还有自己的影子。

感谢刘仲林,他是一个敢想敢做的人,不然赛智没有机会深入到他们的需求中去。感谢殷芹老师,当然还有陈凤雅老师,提供了这样的机会,不管是给SFLS的学生还是给我和SAGE China的所有成员。希望SFLS的SAGE team抓住好的条件和机会,尽情地发挥自己的想象,并踏实的实现一步一步地目标。

我们见证您的成长!

2008年9月5日星期五

College mentor备忘录2:头脑风暴法答案

来源: 综合 发表时间: 2007-08-06


  (一)来源

  头脑风暴法(brain storming),又称智力激励法、BS法。它是由美国BBDO广告公司总经理A.E奥斯本于1939年首次提出,1953年正式发表的一种激发创造性思维的方法。

  (二)原则

  1.禁止批评,鼓励表扬

  奥斯本认为,对现有观点的批评不仅占用时间和脑力资源,还会使与会者人人自危,从而发言更加谨慎,影响新观点的诞生。因此,不要暗示某个想法不正确或者将有些消极作用,所有的想法都可能成为好的观点,或者能够启发他人产生新的想法。

  相反,如果对与会者的观点不断进行表扬,则会在很大程度上激发其创造力和想象力,有利于新观点的诞生。

  2.重在数量

  头脑风暴法讨论的应该以更多的数量的观点为目标。如果单纯追求观点的质量,则容易拘泥于某一个有创意的观点,导致大部分的时间用于这个观点完善上,而忽视了其它观点和思路的开发。

  3.观点不可雷同,强调建立新观点

  头脑风暴法要求与会者不可重复别人的观点,强调建立新的观点。将他人和自己的看法进行比较、融合,比较容易产生新的思维成果。如此下去,更多的观点就容易产生,而且更多的观点带来了更多有用的观点。与会者的思维也会更加开阔,能够在挖掘自身潜力的同时,不断参照其他人的思维成果,在脑力震荡中产生新的观点。

  (三)实施要点

  1.不受干扰的环境及平等的会场布局实施头脑风暴法,选择整洁、安静,没有外界打扰的环境非常重要。会场也最好布置成圆形或者U形,这会使与会的每个人都有平等的感觉,且容易感觉到其他成员和自己处在同一小组中。

  2.确定不同背景的与会者

  与会者要做到不同层次的人相结合,专家和各背景的人相结合。专家的选择要与预测的目标相一致,而且要有一些知识渊博、经验丰富并对问题有较深刻的理解、较强的分析与推断能力的专家参加。参加讨论的不应该只是专家。不同背景、差异很大的人或许能提供不同的信息。也许具备不同身份的人往往能提供给你所需要的东西。

  3.开始前的准备活动

  参会者到达时,要试着使他们之间进行先进行交流。主持人需要介绍比较生疏的人。此外,还要将会议的意图阐述给与会者,但是不要对具体问题的解决方法做任何暗示。

  (四)误区

  1.设定发言顺序。发言顺序的设定往往会使讨论陷入模式化的误区。如果老板率先发言,可能会设定讨论的议程和范围,讨论就立刻受到了局限。大家如果轮流发言,则会导致与会者会把他当成一项任务,也不利于集体讨论的进行。

  2.禁用愚蠢的东西。对于头脑风暴来讲,没有什么是愚蠢的东西。因为这些看似不可思议的东西往往能够激发与会人员的灵感和创造力。

  3.远离现场举行。在远离现场的讨论可能达不到预期的效果。这是因为,现场可能会触发一些更为有益的东西。(© 世界经理人)

college mentor如何进行辅导?SAGE模型

作者:CLAIRE LIU 来源: 原创 发表时间: 2006-11-08
  定义

  SAGE(Surrendering Accepting Gifting Extending)模型是一种辅导过程框架,帮助培训者摆脱固定思维,形成不受权力影响的学习渐进过程,有利于培训者接收有效信息,提升培训效果。

  来源

  Chip R. Bell所著《Managers as Mentors :Building Partnerships for Learning 2nd Edition》一书中提出了SAGE模型。贝尔是美国行为调研协会的资深合伙人,曾担任许多国际知名公司、机构的顾问或培训师。

  应用

  成功的管理应该是一种辅导行为,而成功的管理者应该承担教练的角色,如何引导和培训员工,是领导者的一项必修课。SAGE模型是一种培训的基本方法和思路,实施的意义在于,通过重点培养学习者的发现和独立能力,减少界线限制,培养责任意识。

  1、 放弃(Surrendering)—铺平学习的道路。在培训过程中,教练要尽量放下自己的权威意识,让学生减轻焦虑,增强勇气

  2、 接纳(Accepting)—为风险尝试创造一个安全的港湾。多鼓励和支持学生,传递认可和安全的信息,给予安全感,让学生更有尝试的勇气。

  3、 馈赠(Gifting)—培训的核心内容,教练提出建议,给予反馈,指出发展的重点和方向,这是教练与学生分享自己才能的过程,能够加强辅导关系,使之健康发展。

  4、 扩展(Extending)—培养学生的独立能力。扩展意味着将关系延伸,超过预期的界限,用多种方法强化学生的知识,有利于创造一个独立的、能自我辅导的学习者。

  作者CLAIRE LIU为世界经理人网站副编辑。 (© 世界经理人)

2008年9月3日星期三

Food for thought:Choosing smart entrepreneurs


http://www.bjreview.com.cn/business/txt/2007-07/02/content_68115_2.htm

"When we have a bunch of entrepreneurs brief us about a project, the smart ones are the preferred choice," said Luh. "But I don't want to invest just in high IQ scores. IQ is the mother of wisdom, but the two vary drastically, with the latter being far more important.

"Oftentimes, a company can have very good products, industry outlook, innovative technology, market and development potential, but problems with execution. Should there be any deviation in the course of execution, the people are accountable for such failure," Luh explained. "One with inadequate capability can still grow to be capable, but nothing can be done if he is found wanting morally. That is how wisdom is different from IQ."

Luh offered an example to illustrate his idea.

In 2000, the DFJ Dragon Fund extended investment to a few companies started by graduates of Tsinghua University. They presented clear and accurate schemes in every aspect. Luh was particularly impressed by the team leader, a former student who had experience and outstanding achievement overseas, and a deep knowledge at home and abroad. Soon after the investment arrived, however, the leader started to disagree with his partners and threw himself into an internal fight for power.

"Plus his personal integrity was also in question," Luh explained.

The guy bought a car for himself and registered it under his own name with the raised funds. When asked about the issue, he showed no regret and made up excuses.

"The case cost us a lot of money and much time," said Luh. "So we now attach great importance to the personal integrity of the entrepreneur. We always want to put our investment in the hands of smart entrepreneurs, who care about corporate culture, credit standing and branding.

"Of course, most of the entrepreneurs are very young, and age is related in some ways to wisdom," said Luh. "It is impossible to expect these young entrepreneurs to have too much wisdom. But wisdom can be nurtured step by step and it will grow in practice just as Buddhism refers to the root of wisdom. In most cases, given a little help, people will come to an understanding."

(Xinhua Finance)

MoneyTree Student win Gold in SAGE World Cup Featured in The New Paper

http://moneytree.sg/2008/08/05/moneytree-student-win-gold-in-sage-world-cup-featured-in-the-new-paper/

SAME ARTICLE IN pdf

http://moneytree.sg/images/200808/NewPaper_Asia1_FullArticle_On_Shazwi_Joseph.pdf