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Experts Say that Failing to Track is Leading Cause for Failure Imagine playing a game of basketball where no one keeps score. How do you know who wins? Or think about practicing for a 26.2 mile marathon but never knowing how many miles you’ve run every day as you prepare? Many people establish a workout regimen but never track how many miles they run, pounds they lift, or sit ups they complete. From Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence and well known sales expert: “What gets measured gets done.” And from NerdFitness.com: “Today, I’m going to convince you...

People outside of the aviation industry may not know this, but English is the international language of pilots and air traffic controllers. When you think about it, air travel would be downright dangerous if everyone up in the air was speaking in different languages! And so every year thousands of aspiring pilots take courses in English designed to prepare pilots to communicate with other pilots and air traffic control towers all over the world. The amazing thing is that the courses designed for pilots is only 8 weeks long! They are very intense programs that usually start early in the...

We're pleased with our Whiteboard In A Box product because it lets people put up a dry erase surface on almost any clean, flat surface like a wall or a table. But we've found another way to use it: On A Cube!  We needed to set up a temporary display in a lobby where the walls weren't available for Whiteboard In A Box, so covered two boxes with the product, and created a perfect stand-alone display. Since then we've seen teachers make whiteboard cubes as a craft project and then use them for students to create unique artwork. They're also...

Most conference rooms have a whiteboard at one end for people to offer presentations to groups of people, and they also often will have a large monitor for the presenter to opt for a computer-generated presentation such as PowerPoint. Both have advantages, but we believe that the whiteboard option is superior in many instances, and here's why: With a computer presentation, there's usually just one person in control and able to change things on the screen. One mouse and one keyboard. With a whiteboard, everyone can get involved, especially if it's a creative or design-oriented project. Everyone can add their...

It's a New Year! Introduce mini-whiteboards to your classroom! Students love working on their own whiteboards; it's a great way of keeping an entire class actively involved in a lesson. Individual student whiteboards are the 21st-century version of the chalk slates used by students in colonial times. As thousands of teachers have found, whiteboards are a great way of actively involving students in the learning process -- and a terrific tool for immediate feedback and assessment. Sixty-five percent of the population are visual learners. That is, they use images, pictures, colors, and other visual media to organize and learn information. The...