Some Good News re PCT

FredNickols · August 23, 2012, 1:09pm

I recently put up a new tool in my Knowledge Worker’s Tool Room. It contains links to the PCT Primer I wrote a few years back and to an article about my GAP-ACT or Target Model, which is based on PCT.

The editor of Performance Improvement Journal would like to publish the PCT Primer (and the GAP-ACT piece, too). The audience is only about 5,000 people but at least it’s one with some clout when it comes to matters related to human behavior and performance in the workplace.

If you’d care to see the piece that prompted the request from the editor, here’s a link:

http://www.nickols.us/Seven_Elements_of_Performance.pdf

Regards,

Fred “Doing My Bit for the Cause” Nickols

Managing Partner

Distance Consulting LLC

Home to The Knowledge Worker’s Tool Room

www.nickols.us | fred@nickols.us

Bill_Powers1 · August 23, 2012, 3:23pm

[From Bill Powers (2012.08.23.0920 MDT)]

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At 06:09 AM 8/23/2012 -0700, Fred Nickols wrote:

I recently put up a new tool in my Knowledge Worker's Tool Room. It contains links to the PCT Primer I wrote a few years back and to an article about my GAP-ACT or Target Model, which is based on PCT.

It's a pleasure to reread your stuff. The attitude is calm and confident, the writing is clear, the ideas are neatly organized. You're getting pretty good at this.

Best,

Bill

chadtgreen · August 23, 2012, 5:06pm

[From Chad Green (2012.08.23.1305 EDT)]

Fred, that's a great start. What is missing are the connections, naturally.

Try this: Use Brown's (2001) diagram of the co-generative research model to fill in the loops and interactions:
http://psychsoma.co.za/qualitative_inquiry_growt/2010/03/action-research.html

When it is complete, you may also find that it roughly resembles a top-down view of the brain itself (e.g., executive functions on the right).

Best,
Chad

Chad Green, PMP
Program Analyst
Loudoun County Public Schools
21000 Education Court
Ashburn, VA 20148
Voice: 571-252-1486
Fax: 571-252-1633

"If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself." - Norton Juster

Fred Nickols <fred@NICKOLS.US> 8/23/2012 9:09 AM >>>

I recently put up a new tool in my Knowledge Worker's Tool Room. It
contains links to the PCT Primer I wrote a few years back and to an article
about my GAP-ACT or Target Model, which is based on PCT.

The editor of Performance Improvement Journal would like to publish the PCT
Primer (and the GAP-ACT piece, too). The audience is only about 5,000
people but at least it's one with some clout when it comes to matters
related to human behavior and performance in the workplace.

If you'd care to see the piece that prompted the request from the editor,
here's a link:

Regards,

Fred "Doing My Bit for the Cause" Nickols

Managing Partner

Distance Consulting LLC

Home to The Knowledge Worker <http://www.nickols.us/toolroom.html> 's Tool
Room

www.nickols.us <http://www.nickols.us/> | fred@nickols.us

FredNickols · August 23, 2012, 5:41pm

[From Fred Nickols (2012.08.23.1040 PDT)]

I'm not sure I see the connections you mention, Chad.

Fred Nickols

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[From Chad Green (2012.08.23.1305 EDT)]

Fred, that's a great start. What is missing are the connections,

naturally.

Try this: Use Brown's (2001) diagram of the co-generative research model

to

fill in the loops and interactions:
http://psychsoma.co.za/qualitative_inquiry_growt/2010/03/action-
research.html

When it is complete, you may also find that it roughly resembles a

top-down

view of the brain itself (e.g., executive functions on the right).

Best,
Chad

Chad Green, PMP
Program Analyst
Loudoun County Public Schools
21000 Education Court
Ashburn, VA 20148
Voice: 571-252-1486
Fax: 571-252-1633

"If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself." - Norton Juster

>>> Fred Nickols <fred@NICKOLS.US> 8/23/2012 9:09 AM >>>
I recently put up a new tool in my Knowledge Worker's Tool Room. It
contains links to the PCT Primer I wrote a few years back and to an

article

about my GAP-ACT or Target Model, which is based on PCT.

The editor of Performance Improvement Journal would like to publish the
PCT Primer (and the GAP-ACT piece, too). The audience is only about 5,000
people but at least it's one with some clout when it comes to matters

-----Original Message-----
to human behavior and performance in the workplace.

If you'd care to see the piece that prompted the request from the editor,
here's a link:

http://www.nickols.us/Seven_Elements_of_Performance.pdf

Regards,

Fred "Doing My Bit for the Cause" Nickols

Managing Partner

Distance Consulting LLC

Home to The Knowledge Worker <http://www.nickols.us/toolroom.html> 's
Tool Room

www.nickols.us <http://www.nickols.us/> | fred@nickols.us

chadtgreen · August 23, 2012, 6:51pm

[From Chad Green (2012.08.23.1451 EDT)]

If you align your concepts with the ones in Brown's diagram (e.g., situation = problem), while making the same connections that Brown made with his hierarchical circles and reflexive arrows, the corresponding lines that link your components appear to trace the anatomy of the brain.