Eager Mondays brings skills honed from its practitioners’ decades of experience with adult learners. These are skills authentic to educators, and we apply them as makes sense to your organization. When you hire Eager Mondays, you are absolutely not getting a cookie-cutter corporate training program.
Our particular strengths fall into the following skill sets, but all are aimed at cultivating what we call the “Four Cs” of professional development:
- Curiosity
- Creativity
- Competence
- Confidence
Once your employees have mastered the Four Cs, your business will grow in quantity and quality, expanding into new markets with more interesting, innovative, and thoughtful products and services.
Research
- Access to rigorous, up-to-date research literature on both professional and business development
- Participation in a network of practicing researchers
- Interpreting existing studies and undertaking original research
- Articulating this research to laypeople
Encouraging Critical and Creative Thinking
- Interdisciplinary approaches
- Promoting visual thinking as a tool for innovation and understanding
- Creative, but rigorous, use of writing exercises to identify existing and nascent employee talents and strengths
- Skill in developing others’ curiosity in just about any subject
Learning theory and practice
- Understanding the distinctive needs of adult learners
- Familiarity with the cultural and media practices of Generation Y employees
Distinctive philosophies about teaching, learning, and personal development
- Learner-centered approaches and pedagogies
- An insistence on social justice, and a firm belief that all people have something to teach as well as learn
