I am reading the book of Katharina Saalfrank – Das Ende der Erziehung (the end of education). She takes a new look on upringing of children.
In the book she favours a more systemic approach – where she advocates a move towards a more relationship (Beziehung) based upringing rather than on the assymetrical power relationship (education).
Lately there is a tendency towards a more traditional approach of punishment and disciplinating, which she demonstrates leads to unwanted results.
I took one of the stories and read it to my children (6 and 9 years of age) without telling them the context or the intention of the story:
It goes like this:
On the street
On a sunny spring day a mother is taking her one year old daughter to the playground. The girl is sitting in her baby carriage and is curiously observing the environment. The cap she is wearing is slipping and covers her eyes. So the girl takes the cap off her head. As the mother is concerned about the protection of her daughters ears she covers again the head of her daughter with the cap. This leads to a continuous struggle between the girl pulling off the cap and her mother putting it back on. With every second both become more and more unhappy with the situation. Finally the mother says: “If you do not stop pulling off your cap, I will have to hurt you. If you do not want to listen, you have to feel the consequences.” She hits one time with assertiveness the hand of her daughter and puts back the cap on her daughter’s head while the baby starts crying.
What were the first reaction when they heard the story:
6 year old: a one year old cannot understand why it should put the cap back on to cover her ears, too young
9 year: The mother should have immediately returned home or accept the daugher’s decision – this is horror what the mother did.
When I asked them if I should read another similar story they both immediately said, no not again such a horror story….
The new Gold rush ? Bitcoin is going mainstream but probably most of us hardly understand this artificial unregulated electronic currency based on cryptography.
The Price of a Bitcoin in USD: http://blockchain.info/de/charts/market-price
In April 2012 the price for a bitcoin was 4.85 USD on March,28 2013 the price is at 93 USD. And on April 2nd, 2013 a Bitcoin trades at 105 USD per BTC (Bitcoin).
The volatility can be very high during a days trading. Low and heigh price can differ by as much as 20%.
Learning about the bitcoin currency – written by the inventor (only for the super geeks): Bitcoin
How the currency works?
“The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins is analogeous to gold miners expanding resources to add gold to circulation. In this case, it is CPU time and electricity that is expended.”
The maximum amount of Bitcoins will be 21.5 Millionen by the year 2140. This is the mathematical boundary. At the moment it is at 10.5 Millionen BTCs. Creation of BTCs thus will constantly slow down.
Key in the setup of BTC is, that the user cannot spend the same BTC unit twice which would be like magically spending your 1 USD note twice at the same time. This setup of BTC makes it impossible to forge the currency, which is not the case for USD or other paper currencies.
Even though crypto keys are used and thus allow for some anonymity each transaction of BTC ever undertaken is stored in the so called Blockchain. Every user in the Peer to Peer Bitcoin Network has access to the blockchain. Some smart computer geeks could potentially uncover the person behind the transaction. To which destination BTC units are transmitted can be watched here live: https://blockchain.info/de/popular-addresses. Key destination seems to be SatoshiDice – a gambling platform.
Where can I keep the electronic currency Bitcoin ?
The electronic Wallet:
You need an electronic wallet to own, trade or recieve a bitcoin or portions of a coin. But which is the best to choose from ?
In principal a wallet is a personalized url – which is the address of your wallet.
03. April. 2013: Down on security issues- no transfers are accepted.
Disucssion on the situation at Reddit.
As soon as you type instawallet.org in your browser it will create an url for your wallet. The url starts with 1 and has then over 31 characters and numbers in random order. You wallet(“account”) is now opened but with 0 BTC deposit.
There are no additional costs – it is free.
How to protect your wallet ?
Additionally you have a key that you should not share with anyone. It is recommended that you do not keep it on a computer with internet access – rather on a usb stick. Best is probably to take a screenshot and save it as a picture.
Security: Additionally you should probably delete your browsing history and use a computer with a security internet protection. Also recommended is not to create a wallet when surfing in an internet cafe.
How transfer Bitcoins – make payments ?
On instawallet.org you can also transfer Bitcoins (BTC) to anothe electronic wallet. You have to type in the url of the electronic wallet you want to make a payment to and the amount. The minimum transfer amount is 0.01 BTC (Bitcoin).
Of course you can only make payments if you have BTC in your wallet. There is no overdraft as the electronic wallet is similar in principal to a true wallet with coins and paper money.
Bitcoin.org Wallets
At this address you find different type of wallets:
Web wallets (example instawallet.org),
Mobile Wallets
Software Wallets
From a security standpoint Bitcoin.org recommends Software Wallets and does not recommend web wallets at all.
Can I customize my wallet (bitcoin) url so it is easier for people to remember or help them to avoid sending the money to the wrong url ?
Yes there is also a bitcoin url generator called vanitygen. Discussed in details here:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0. Instead of using a random url you can influence the url through vanitygen to use a certain pattern of your choosing at the beginning (example: 1boat or 1USA) when the url is created. I have not seen a 32 bitcoin url that was fully customized like 1SwitzerlandPeterPalmeBitcoinUrl..
Since many years I am involved in change management. The major concern everyone involved in change talks about is the resistance to change and how to overcome it. Change is considered to be negative, that people do not want to change and would love to continue as is. It needs a sense of urgency, a melting ice block, in order to get people moved and behave differently in the future.
But honestly how often have you wished to change some of your habits? How often have you heard your friends, your family members or colleagues talk about “New Years Resolutions”. There are so many private change initiatives out there where people embrace the change, where they see the benefit, the urgency to change, but yet sooner or later they fail during their change journey. Statistic shows that only 10% of all weight loss change initiatives lead to a sustainable success where the person keeps the aimed new weight over a period of 12 months stable.
What is it that always throws us back to point zero even with all our best intention at the start of every change journey ?
There is a simple answer – we work with the wrong part of our brain.
We need to incorporate our intuition, our longtime memory our emotional brain in the change. To often we only rely on our rational brain, our short term memory, our working memory.
The rational brain works well, when we read a new book on the latest diet, the best way to manage our time (stress) or how to optimize our taks at home or at work. It also works well when we join workshops and within this “safe” environment learn new methods, tools or systems.
But how often is it, when we are back in our “normal” environments that even with our best efforts we fail to implement our new tools, methods, system or processes ? Most of the time the excuse I get is – “well I wanted to, but than I did not have the time nor the energy and there were suddenly other priorities to deal with….
Over the years I have experienced a number of change methods and read the latest research on change.
Change has to do a lot with learning new things, relearning and unlearning.
Like learning a new language change takes time and if you do it well it can be playful, fun, exiting and a wonderful journey. It does not have to be hard, painful and teeth-byting discipline.
The best way to start any change journey is to view it as an expedition into the unknown. Why ? Well, would you start an expedition to the unknown immediately? Would you just run off and see how you end up in the unknown ?
Probably most of us would first like to prepare before we embark on such ambigious journey. Preparing means learning, learning where we wish to go, what it will take us to get us there, what we will do when we encounter barriers on the way, face risks or unexpected events. How much resources and knowledges would we need in order to arrive at the place of our desired destination. Clearly the conclusion is if you prepare well, you probably already have increased your chances of success from 10% to 50%. Yes, without having gone through any major painful exercises or change in diet, you have achieved 40% of your change goal.
Preparation Period: Every advisor in the field of change would recommend to start with a clear vision, with a well defined goal. But do you have one ready at hand ? Most of the time people won’t have a clear vision and if they have one is it really theirs ? Was it their true inner self who decided to lose 20 pounds ? Before visoning I recommend a reflection period. There are many ways to help you find your true vision your ultimate specific goal. Most of the time people start with a very high level objective, like loose weight. So before making it more specific I recommend you to do a few reflection exercises. The best way of course is if three people team up together in these exercises, but still you can do it in pairs or even alone.
In the first reflection start with your strength. Have you ever experienced a moment where you accomplished a succesful or even sustainable self change? This could be anything from stopping to swear in public, to quit smoking or loosing weight. Tell this success stories to others and let them play back to you whatpersonal strength they noticed in your story you had applied and what tactics you used to successfully change one of your habits. If you are on your own write your story down and then go through it by yourself or send it to someone to read and play it back to you.
In the second reflection start to think of a situation when you for the first time experienced change – it could be a positive experience or a negative experience. Ask yourself some open questions to get you talking about your experience or if you are in a group or pair let the other(s) pose these questions to get you talking. Key is that you talk freely and are only interrupted by questions that get you talking more and more about the experiences. Key is for the others to listen and note down your behaviour during this change and then feed it back to you again.
In the third reflection speak more about the as-is situation. If it is for example about loosing weight, don’t talk about loosing weight, reflect about what is about your weight that made you decide to reduce it. What is disturbing you now, what are the factors that made you come to the conclusion, that you want to change.
Equipped with the results of these reflections the true visioning becomes much easier and clearer and you understand much better what a realistic goal could be like and why you want it in the first place.
While you prepare for your ultimate change journey you can do it like all the successful explorer do – practice. If you are keen to try a new diet, do it, but see it as a practice. Do it for a short time and notice how you felt about this diet approach.
It is important to have a clear and realistic goal rather than being overconfident. That is why an extensive preparation phase will increase your chances. The reason is simple as overconfidence quickly leads to frustration.
But the most important output in this reflection and preparation phase is to uncover your intrinsic motivation. It is the intrinsic motivation that will lead ultimately to a successful sustainable change.
To often we are motivated by external motivational factors. It can be a partner that would like us to loose weight, the mother who wants us to stop smoking, the norms in our society and any other authority around us. Clearly we need to find our inner intrinsic motivation and identify all the external influences before we ever embark on our change expedition.
All of the sustainable change programs I have come across so far share several common themes – they help you define a realistic goal, they emphasize the intrinsic motivation – the true reason and purpose for your change and they also let you set a realistic time frame. They talk about several months instead of quick instant change within hours or days. Usually 6 months is the time you should consider for a sustainable transformation of your habits. And also these journeys are guided or coached by an expert.
Still, there are some more steps to take before you can embark on your expedition. The key questions is how do you get there ? What do you need to do in order to arrive at your destination ? Now you have a clear goal, understand your intrinsic motivation and you have a time frame set. Equipped with these information you need to calculate the ressources you need for your expedition. Start with the most important categories and strictly go through by categories when you plan. For an expediton one of the key category will be water or fluid. How much will you consume per day, will you find some on the way, how much will you need to carry and how long will the quality last, etc.
With the metapher of the expedition how will you translate it into your self change expedition. Marie Kondo discovered that if you want to become an orderly person and have a sustainable clean house or appartement the best is to take a 6 month period of time and go through your belongings by category and not by room. She recommends to start with your clothing. Collect all your clothing from all the different storage places in the appartement and go through by subcategory. Key in her method is to touch every piece of clothes and see what your true emotional reaction is to this item. She recommends only to keep all the clothes you really feel an emotional not just a rational reason for keeping it. The rest of the clothes you will let go.
A note on the side: The method of touching and feeling helped Steve Jobs to identify the best design of the apple products – from ipod to ipad.
If it is about weight change – start with all your liquids that you drink. Collect all the liquids from water to beverages in your household and go through each of them and decide if you truely like this liquid or not. Do not follow outside advise, instead discover your own inner connection to each of the different type of drinks. Besides keeping water, any drink you keep but you are not attached to it put it in the bin or put it in a remote location of your storage if it is there for a visitor. Only surround yourself with things that matter to you and decide when you will consume them and in which quantaty. This is what every expedition does to decide how much and when it will consume their supplies.
An expedition can only begin once you know if you have sufficient ressources available. Erika Toman has devlopped a method to see when you are ready to embark on a change journey such as weight change. She uses a method called ReLaZ – it is an abbreviation of Re = Ressources La = Barriers (Lasten) and Z = Goal (Ziel). Reference: ReLaZ
With her ReLaZ approach Erika Toman has helped many people to sustainable change their body weight.
Her method is based on the latest scientific research which confirms how important the environmental factors are and their impact on our change journey. Before starting any diet Erica Toman works with her clients to calculate if they have enough Resources to successfully start their diet expedition. See: ReLaZ
Approximately 2 Millionen Users just received a message from Linkedin with the name and the message: “Your Name, congratulations! You have one of the top 1% most viewed LinkedIn profiles for 2012.” And probably you have seen messages on Twitter or Linkedin like: “Hurray! I Have One of the Top 1% most vied LinkedIn Profiles.”
If you want to know who are the top 10 Most Viewed Profiles on Linkedin – see List below.
There is one golden rule for views on Linkedin: The more views a profile gets the more likely this profile will generate a so called lead. A lead could be a proposal for a job, a proposal for a business or a partnership, or a new network contact that can open new doors, or an invitation to an event to present on your topic, etc. …
If you would like to get a feel who these top profiles are that made it into the Top 1% Most Viewed Profiles on Linkedin in 2012, I have compiled a list in slideshare presentation: The top most viewed profiles on linkedin
I have created a Linkedin Benchmark survey with two questions to get a better feel how many views Your Linkedin Profile has compared to other Profile: The Linkedin Profile Views Benchmark Survey
The Top 10 List of the Most Viewed Profiles on Linkedin:
1) Barack Obama: Current President of the United States of America. 526 270 Views in 2012. Reference
2) Wayne Breitbarth: Bestselling author, trainer and speaker on using Linkedin
Who is more likely to become the next CEO in a company – the CFO, the COO or the CIO ?
Well, ask the Linkedin crowd. There are now more than 200 Million Profiles on Linkedin and even most of the Senior Executives of the Fortune 500 companies have setup their profile. Now is the time to use the wisdom of the Linkedin crowd and start planning your career.
Of the current CEOs on Linkedin:
No.1: 110 000 have been the CIO in the past
No.2: 46 100 were the CFO in the past and
No.3: 37 400 had the COO Role in the past.
Well, guess what you might want to consider studying before going for your MBA or EMBA ?
Lately there has been a lot of research on crowd wisdom or swarm intelligence.
And it is a key source for great insights and forecasts. Just lately the swarm intelligence research of Peter Gloor MIT helped to predict correctly the outcome of the US presidential election in 2012.
The Linkedin Crowd will also tell you what university or business school to choose if you aspire to be the next CIO, CFO or COO….
What else would you like to ask the Linkedin Crowd ? Leave a comment and I will ask the Linkedin crowd for the answer…
Well, there you are with your new state of the art best practice Linkedin Profile which is extremely well worded and your picture taken by a professional photographer. You are ready to land a fantastic new job through a recruiter coming across your profile, but month and month passes and nothing ever happens….
What is going on here ?
First of all there are now more than 200 Million Profiles on Linkedin and steadily growing. How should a recruiter find you ? Not every recruiter has the Linkedin Recruiter Version which allows him or her to search through all the Linkedin profiles. And even if he or she did, how would your Linkedin Profile turn up in the top 10 search results of this recruiter ?
Linkedin Connections and Network
There are a number of steps you can do:
1) Check Appearances in Search Results
2) See the number of people in your Network
3) Look at the quality of your network connections and the Linkedin Groups you have joined
4) Analyse Keywords – do you know them and do you use those in the best way ?
How to go about it ?
1. First Login into your Linkedin Account.
2. On the right pane as shown in the picture above you will see how big your network currently is and if your profile appeared in search results.
1) Check Appearances in Search Results
3. In the section Who’s Viewed Your Profile click on the “Your Profile has been viewed by x people in the past x x” Link.
4. On the right upper side of the displayed new page click on the “Appearances in Search” Tab under Trends. Study the search appearances graph over the last 90 days.
Linkedin Profile appearances in Search Results over 90 days period
Clearly if you have a low total number of search appearances you have got to do some work which will be
2) See the number of people in your Network
5. Go back to your main page and look again there at your stats. This time the stats of “YOUR LINKEDIN NETWORK” (see picture “Linkedin Connections and Network” above ) are in focus. There is a clear statistical link between the number of professionals within your Linkedin Network and Appearances in Search Results. The smaller your network the more likely your Linkedin Profile will not appear in searches. Why is that ?
If a Linkedin User does not have the Linkedin Recruiter version any search for a Linkedin Profile will be limited to the number of professionals in one’s own network. If you do not belong to this network your Profile will not show up. And this will bring you to step
3) Look at the quality of your network connections
If you have still a small professional network the first thing you need to do is to connect to more people to enlarge your network as well as join the largest groups on Linkedin and also the Linkedin Groups related to your professional area. Member of your Linkedin Groups will also appear in Searches – so you do not have to be necessarily connected with these Profiles, they do not have to be part of your professional network.
How do you identify the quality connections and the best Linkedin groups ?
There are many ways.
6. First of all connect to all the people within your existing professional network that are on Linkedin.
7. Second look through your preferred job boards and identify the names of the recruiter if displayed or the company they are working for. Start searching for these recruiters or companies on Linkedin and see if you can connect to the individual. If these people are not yet within your reach in Linkedin see in which Linkedin Groups they are a member of. Join these groups. Now you should be able to invite them into your professional network.
8. Join large external industry groups and get a member list as well and join their Linkedin group if they have one already.
9. After you have started to extend your Linkedin Network see again if your Appearances in Searches went up compared to the first time you did your analysis.
The next thing is for you to appear in the top search results. This is step No.
4) Analyse Keywords – do you know them and do you use those in the best way ? 10. I would recommend you to take this step once you have a large enough network on Linkedin. From your own job searches in job boards as well as from the description of the open positions that you would consider extract the main keywords. This should be the words that recruiters will use to find a Linkedin Profile.
11. Use one of these keywords and do a search on Linkedin in the people category - see example in the picture below.
The Search is on top right of your Linkedin Account Main Page.
Use the Linkedin Search with your keyword
12. The first result you get will be ordered by relevance. In this step you could analyse the first three top profiles and see how they used the keyword in their profiles. In Relevance mainly the people usually the first level connections will show up in the top ten results.
Better is to do one more step to find the best optimized SEO Linkedin Profile for your keyword:
13. Change the Filter (Sort by: ) of the Search Results from Relevance to Keywords (see picture below):
Linkedin Search Results Sort by Keywords
14. Now in the new result list study the top profiles that appear. See how and how often these Linkedin members used the keyword in their Linkedin Profiles.
If you do not have the premium Linkedin membership you cannot view the Profiles of your 3rd Level connection or the Linkedin Members within your Linkedin Groups. On top the premium Linkedin Membership allows you to see what keywords were used by Linkedin Users who finally came to view your profile.
Additonally with the Premium Version you can view the whole list of Linkedin Members who viewed your profile. Once you have optimised your Linkedin Profile it may be worth while to pay for the premium membership for some months to see what keywords attracted people to come to your profile.
Some more useful advise by experts: How to Optimize Your Linkedin Profile For High SEO Ranking
One of the key advises in the post – complete your Linkedin Profile in the most optimal way.
Linkedin has these character limits per section in your Linkedin Profile:
Headline – 120 Characters
Status Field – 140 Characters
Summary – 2,000 Characters
Specialties – 500 Characters
Company Name – 100 Characters
Position (Job) Title – 100 Characters
Position Description – 2,000 Characters
Interests – 1,000 Characters
Linkedin: Why your profile never gets views, and how you can fix it (case study) at zdnet
Citation from this excellent post by a master in SEO Stephen Chapman:
“If you hope to come up in someone’s search for keywords related to your profile, you either need to essentially spam your profile with those keywords, be in a LinkedIn group related to those keywords, or you had better be connected with someone the person searching is connected to. Long story short, LinkedIn appears to favor networks of connected people, LinkedIn groups, and profiles chock-full of the same keyword(s).” Also the author Stephen Chapman – the SEO experts – shows some very good examples of his case study what I would recommend on how not do it. To be found is one thing, but to be attractive another. If it is obvious to a recruiter or a prospective client that you just optimized your Linkedin Profile to rank very high, this might turn actually your visitors to your profile away. I would advise you to study closely how to optimize but yet not loose the quality of your Linkedin Profile. To put it in other words very good products usually have also a very good marketing and so should a very good Linkedin Profile too.
Stephen summarized his expert advise in two sections for seeking an employee and seeking a job. I recommend to read it.
7 Things You Need to Know About Linkedin Search
In this excellent post you get a deeper insight on how Linkedin Search works when the search results are displayed by relevance. Worth reading.
How to go best about hiding your job search while still being employed ? There are a number of reasons why employees are looking for outside opportunities on Linkedin while still in a job. Out of my HR perspective it is the case when companies do not put enough focus on actively managing their key talents and limit their investments in leadership development programs. As the saying goes: “Talents leave leaders not companies”.
Your job search on Linkedin will be undected if people within your Linkedin network first of all do not see a noticeable change in the way you act on Linkedin. If you suddenly start to connect in a short period of time to many people and most of these are recruiter or if you join a LinkedGroup on job searches or if you are very actively sharing lots of articles and commenting this will not get unnoticed.
The best way first of all is to change your settings of your Linkedin Profile to:
1) Turn on/off your activity broadcasts
2) Select Who Can See Your Activity Feed
3) What Others See When You Visit Their Profile
How to change your profile settings on Linkedin:
How to hide your job search on Linkedin
Even though you have changed your settings it doesn’t give you the green card to now advertise openly your job search on Linkedin. Equally important is to restrict and control your communication on Linkedin.
Do not talk openly about your Job Search in:
1) Linkedin Status Updates
2) Commenting or Liking Linkedin Status Updates that would associate your Job Hunting
3) In your Linkedin Profile
4) Linkedin Questions & Answers
5) Discussions in Linkedin Groups
6) Advertise in your Search in Linkedin Group Job Boards
7) Avoid asking Linkedin Recommendations from colleagues in your current job
8) Write recommendations for Recruiters
9) Do not display Job Seeker badge (Linkedin premium account)
10) Do not join Linkedin Groups that would be associated with Job Searching
Example of Linkedin Endorsement for Skills and Expertise
Linkedin Endorsements are one of a few key performance indicators about the attractiveness of your Linkedin Profile – your professional brand image.
The number of endorsements per Skill & Expertise over time will indicate what your professional network recognizes or has recognized as one of your key professional skills and expertise.
This is positive as long as the skills and expertise endorsed are the ones you want to be known for and are the ones you want to work with going forward.
It might be less favourable in the cases when your key skill and expertise endorsed is in the professional area you actually want to leave behind, grow out of or if this competence has become a commodity in the job market.
In these cases you have the option to hide the endorsements in your Linkedin Profile – you are not able to delete those. You can hide all the endorsement for one skill & expertise or selectively per person who endorsed you for it.
How to do it ?
1) Login to your Linkedin Profile
2) Select in Menu Profile -> the Item Edit Profile
3) Scroll to the Skills & Expertise Seciton in your profile
4) Select the blue Pen icon to edit it
5) Select the Manage Endorsements Tab
6) Click on the Skill & Expertise to see the endorsements
7) Deselect the tick box next to the person who has endorsed you
The idiot guide for dads. After extensively searching the net for a quick, easy and dad optimized tutorial on how to play Pokémon (pocket monster) cards with my son I have to come to the conclusion there is none yet. I need a manual that walks dads like me carefully through every step in the game. In absence of this easy to learn and follow guide I have to do my own for the time being. (Dear Reader in case you know a good resource please do not hesitate to recommend it in the comment section of this post.)
Despite the fact that 5 year old kids begin to play Pokémon it is a highly complex strategy trading card game. The way to learn it is to start at a very basic level and to slowly work yourself up to the more complex level of understanding the game. In the following the basic questions and answers will guide you to play your first game with your child at a basic level. To advance you will need to learn more and more details about the rules of the game and the cards.
Basic Level (all what you really need to know for your first game)
#1: How many players in this trading card game ?
The game has two player – in my case one is dad (no cards and no idea yet) and on the opponent side is my son with a large collection of Pokémon cards but a very personal idea of how to play this game. It seems the rules always favour him….
#2: How many cards does one player need?
Each player needs 60 cards. You handpick and decide what cards to take before you start the game. This is then your card deck.
3#: What type of cards should I choose for my 60 cards deck ?
There are three type of cards:
1. The Pokémon (Pocket Monster)
2. The Energy Card (without it the Pokémon cannot attack)
3. The Trainer Card
A dad if he wants to impress his child should choose 20 Pokémon cards, 25 Trainer cards and 15 Energy cards. Therefore in the following there are a few exercises for the beginner dads:
First exercise for dads – card sorting #1: I took the card collection of my son and sorted the cards into the three categories: 1) Pokémon 2)Energy 3)Trainer.
The Pokémons look very similar to insects, small animals, dragons or small robots and have fantasy names associated to their appearances. Satoshi Tajiri the inventor of the game was a passionate insect collector in his childhood.
The Pokéman fight each other, always one by one. To prepare them for the battle they have a trainer (trainer card). To fight they need energy (energy card).
For your first game just choose Pokémons with the same color. This means you need to go through your second exercise:
Second exercise for dads – card sorting #2: Now select only the Pokémon cards (not the trainer cards and not the energy cards) from the first sorting excercise and seperate them into piles with similar colors. Each color resembles a different type of energy that the Pokémon belongs to – additionally the energy type is indicated by a symbole in the right upper corner of the card. Depending on the content of the card collection of your child you will end up with different number of piles. The card collection of my son includes ten different types of Pokémon.
#5: What types of Pokémon with similar energies should I finally select ?
The recommendation is to have 20 Pokémon cards with the same energy tpye within your 60 cards deck. In the following video this boy explains how he selects Pokémons with the grass energy (green color cards) for his deck.
Were you able to follow ? Now very slowly and a short step by step explanations for the ultimate beginner.
Within the group of Pokémons of similar energy there are again three sub-types.
1) Basic cards
2) Stage 1 cards
3) Stage 2 cards
Third exercise for dads – card sorting #3: Select one group of Pokémon cards from the card sorting exercise #2. They should have the same color and belong to the group of Pokémon with the same type of energy. Now sort the cards into 3 categories: 1)Basic 2)Stage 1 3) Stage 2.
For your first game I would recommend you to only select the basic type pokémon. Stage 1 or Stage 2 cards I would get into after you have played your first game or first few games.
#6: What type of energy card should I select ?
In the next step you need to choose your 15 energy cards by doing another exercise.
Fourth exercise for dads – card sorting #4: Now take the pile of the energy cards and separate them into piles related to their energy symbol and color. How many types of energies did you find ?
In my son’s card collection there are just 5 different types of energy cards.
As mentioned before my son’s collection contains 10 different type of Pokémon cards. Green (grass energy) Pokémon have the most cards. Now should I choose the green Pokémon with the grass energy ? The answer is a straight no. In this card collection there are no green energy cards (grass energy). This means no energy available for the green Pokémons to attack. A much better option for dad is to go for the blue (water energy) Pokémon cards and take the blue energy cards.
One more thing you will need to understand about energy cards. Do you see the colorful energy cards with the star (bottom right in the picture above) ? These are universal energy cards called “colorless energy card”. As you might have guessed these work with any type of Pokémon cards independent if they are green, blue, yellow, and so on. If you also take some of those this would do no harm.
Guess what you are not yet done with the card sorting exercises . What else is left to sort ?
Fifth exercise for dads – the final card sorting #5: Now do the same with the trainer card pile. And how many types of trainers do you have identified ?
I have come up with three main categories – item, supporter and stadium.
#7: What trainer cards should I choose for my deck ?
To select your 25 trainer cards I would not go into much thinking yet. For your first game just choose one stadium trainer card, two supporter trainer cards and twenty-two item trainer cards.
Summary : Card Deck for your first ever Pokémon game with your child:
20 Pokémon Basic Type cards with the same type of Energy
15 Energy Cards that have the same color as your chosen Pokémons and some colorless energy cards (Cards with multiple colors on it and a star)
25 Trainer Cards of which are 22 Item Trainer Cards, 2 Supporter Trainer Cards and 1 Stadium Card
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For the Advanced Level 1 dads (not needed for your first game of Pokémon):
#8: What is the difference between a Pokémon Basic, a Pokémon Stage 1 and Pokémon Stage 2 ? Well they belong together first of all, they are a family. A Stage 2 Pokémon evolves out of a stage 1 Pokémon and a stage 1 Pokémon evolves out of a Basic Pokémon. Each time they do it they get stronger and stronger. So guess what who is the strongest in this family ? The Stage 2 Pokémon.
#9: What is the difference between item trainer card, a supporter trainer card and a stadium trainer card ?
In this video from the expert Jodi Serge I have learned how to setup the card game:
Important advice to dads: Also shuffle the deck of your opponent!!
Summary Step by Step:
1) Shuffle your card deck 2) Take the first 6 cards and put them face down on your table (see picture). These are your prize cards.
3) Select 7 more cards from the top your card deck. Do not show the cards to your opponent and hold them in your hand
4) Place the rest of your card deck in a pile on your table as well.
Now I am all set to be beaten…
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#11: How to start the game ?
This video by Jodi Serge below explains how to start the game:
Summary Step by Step:
1) Choose 1 Basic Pokémon from your seven cards and put it face down on the table. This is your active Pokémon that will go into the first battle.
2) If you have more Basic type Pokémons put those face down on your so called “bench” on the table.
Key Rule to remember: The Bench can have maximum five Basic type Pokémons at any time.
In my example in the picture I have one active Pokémon and two on my bench. What do I still hold in my hands ? I have three energy cards of which one has an universal (colorless) energy and one trainer card.
3) Flip a coin who is the first to start the game or decide the oldest (youngest) one of the two players will begin the game.
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#12: How to play the first round ?
Before you start to play the game become aware of your true role. You are the trainer of the Pokémons that go into battle. The story of Pokémon is based on Ash Ketchum, a ten year old boy, who has the desire to become the best expert trainer for Pokémons in his life. The first Pokémon he befriends with is called Pikachu. And if you have 22 Minutes I would recommend you to watch the first Pokémon episode – I will choose you.
The video below explains what happens when you take your first turn in the game
Step by Step Summary of the video:
1) Both players:
Flip over your basic Pokémon cards that you have chosen as your active the ones on your bench so your opponent can now see these cards.
The player that goes first:
2) Draw one card from your pile
3) If it is a basic type Pokémon card and you have less than 5 basic type Pokémon cards on your bench, then add this new Pokémon card to your bench
3) If you have an energy card in the cards that you hold in your hand see if you can add it to your active Pokémon. You can add only one.
4) If you have a trainer card(s) in your hand see what it says and see if helps you to add more energy cards, or do some other useful tactical moves to enhance your battle power.
In my example (see picture) in step 2 I drew a basic type Pokémen card which I placed on my bench. I put an energy card next and below my active Pokémon card. Now this Pokémon card is ready to go into battle. And I used my trainer cards which allowed me to go through my whole pile of my card deck and take out two more energy cards which I now hold in my hand. My trainer card will now go into the discarded cards pile. I cannot reuse it again in this game.
5) Next is the turn of your opponent to do the same steps 2-4 above.
Your First battle:
Summary Step by Step: Now it is time that you understand more details about your Pokémon card. Below the picture of the Pokémon you find the name and descriptions of the attacks this Pokémon can do. In this case Basculin has one energy card attached which will allow you to use the Flail attack.
At first with the Flail attack willdo 10 damage points to your opponent.
As soon as Basculin received some damage points during the fight the damage points of the Flail attack will increase by number of damage points Basculin has collected. (see picture below)
To use the Final Gambit attack of Basculin you would need at least one blue (water) energy card attached which is the case already in this example. Then you would need additionally two more energy cards. These can be any type of energy card. The symbol next to the attacks will tell you what kind of energy card you need and how many. If you see the star (colorless) energy symbol this mean you can attach any type of energy card.
It will take at least two more rounds to activate the Final Gambit attack of Basculin. You can only add one energy card per round if you have one.
Now Basculin recieved two damage points coins (20 Points). His maximum HP Hit Points was 80 Hit Points when you started the game. You see the HP Points on the right upper corner of the Pokémon card. Now Basculin has 60 HP left after the attack.
As he has two damage points the next time you use the Flail attack, Basculin will now do 10×2=20 damage points to your opponent.
Once Basculin has collected 80 Damage points he will be discarded together with the energy cards attached from the play field. These cards cannot be used anymore in the current game.
Your opponent will collect one of his prize cards as your Pokémon Basculin has been knocked out.
#13: What can happen during a battle – Weakness and Resistance ?
In this video the Pokémon Expert Mom Jodi Serge explains what else you need to be aware of during your battle:
#14: What can happen during a battle -Pokémon special conditions ?
This is another impact on your Pokémon that can be inflicted by your opponent’s card.
#15: What happens when your Pokémon was finally beaten?
When your Pokemon has no more HP (Hit Points)left and therefore is knocked out, all cards attached to it (including the energy cards) go into the discard pile.
Additionally your opponent can now draw one prize card from his prize cards on the table.
#16: When is the game over and who is the winner?
Once a player has collected all his 6 prize cards the game is over and he has won.
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And below some examples what more advanced players know about the game and why it is good to start at a very basic level first. The more you know the more complex strategies for your game which heavinly depends on the card deck you choose you can develop.
For the more advanced players:
Advise: Choose a few trainer supporter cards that let you go through your deck to find other cards or possible discard your opponents cards. Reference: How to build a winning Pokemon deck
Once you advance with your knowledge and move towards mastery. This is what the highly advanced players do when they build their decks. Deck Building Guide
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Should I innovate and focus on my own fields of interest, or should I imitate and follow the trends? Conveniently, the field best equipped to answer this question, i.e. “social learning strategies and decision making”, was sixth of ...
Just contrast these social learning approaches with organisations views of knowledge, often locking training and learning up in rooms, hiding them away on systems. If an airport can have a library in the main concourse, why ...
Social Learning: a Namibian Experiment. Agaricus_bisporus_5112261430_8556037af0_b In Sub-Saharan Africa, innovative approaches are constantly being developed to address the region's acute education challenges.
Social Leaders are highly socially literate: they understand the lifecycle of communities and social learning spaces and have an ability to build and maintain strong networks. They both draw upon the expertise of these ...
In March I participated in the workshop “Social Learning in Business” run by Harold Jarche of the Social Learning Centre. With DynaMind's focus on social learning I was excited to join a group who would be discussing just ...
... might think that this is a joke. It's not. So ok, Facebook wasn't created for educational purposes, but you 'd be surprised of how the social affordances of this versatile tool can generate great potentials for social learning.
This past Friday I was a panelist for the “Faculty Face Off” session at American University's Social Learning Summit – a 2.5 day conference organized by AU's Social Media Club that looks at the current and emerging role, ...
We just finished a month-long workshop at the Social Learning Centre which involved over 50 participants from many countries. The workshop was on social learning in business, and followed on from previous ones like the ...
Following a year in development including various stages of beta-testing and further fine-tuning, the resourcingpod applicant tracking and talent management system has finally been launched to customers.
Jason Corsello didn't just turn out to be a great analyst and one of the original HR bloggers, but he's now honing his knowledge to be a real strategist in modern marketing plying his trade leading strategy and marketing for ...
n reading the November 2012 address by Cynthia Trudell of PepsiCo to the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, I found it.
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Anyone who tracks advanced trends in talent management knows that many of them originated in the Silicon Valley. However, you probably also know that many of the publicized practices that …
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Take a Poll over at InsideTMT. If you listen to the marketing and sales pitches of the technology vendors, you might believe that switching platforms and.
Percept Talent Management. Engage, Empower and Entertain are the three-pillars of Percept Talent. Incepted in 2007, Percept Talent marks a confluence between creating, inculcating, honing and promoting 'TALENT' in every sense of the ...
(Reuters) - Chinese solar panel makers are shunning their overcrowded home market in favor of lucrative exports, a switch that has helped to arrest a two-year slump in margins and push shares to 12-month peaks.
(Reuters) - News Corp set the distribution ratios for the spinoff of its publishing business and said the spinoff may start buying back stock right away.
PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most men might balk at spending $600 on a pair of Dior sneakers but for U.S. shoppers like Ephraim, an upbeat 30-year-old, such indulgences are becoming increasingly commonplace.
LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC's Chairman Douglas Flint called for an acceleration in the speed of reform within the industry as the bank was criticized by shareholders for compliance failings and accusations it aided tax avoidance.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rose more than expected in April, a hopeful sign that a contraction in factory output could soon run its course.
(Reuters) - Procter & Gamble Co said on Friday the surprise return of A.G. Lafley as chairman and chief executive was not an indication of any bigger problems at the world's largest consumer products maker.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Raiffeisen Bank International Chief Executive Herbert Stepic resigned on Friday in what he called an effort to spare his bank from negative publicity over personal property deals that triggered scrutiny by the lender and regulators.
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - The role of the European Banking Authority must be beefed up beyond current plans to ensure that regulation of Europe's banks does not fragment into two competing systems, one of the architects of the reforms told a public hearing on Friday.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's economy will recover from a bout of winter weakness but fall well short of the dynamic growth rates of previous years as euro zone recession and global slowdown stunt exports and investment.
