Fran Kick on Jim Canterucci's Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical Podcast

    Jim Canterucci's September guest is Youth Expert, Fran Kick.

/24-7PressRelease/ - WESTERVILLE, OH, September 08, 2007 - Jim Canterucci's Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical weekly podcast features experts and their brilliance. Each weekly episode (approximately 15 minutes) features one of the four Personal Brilliance catalysts - Awareness, Curiosity, Focus, and Initiative.

Fran Kick is the author of KICK IT IN and TAKE THE LEAD! Fran knows what makes kids kick! He's a former teacher, clinical counselor, college faculty member, and a parent of three including twin boys. He's worked with thousands of students both high school and college and their parents and teachers. Fran is optimistic, while at the same time being realistic about what it takes to move beyond a carrot-and-stick approach to a higher level of reaching optimum Personal Brilliance.

In conjunction with this podcast theme Jim is asking for submissions of stories of the things adults said to you as a child that made a difference - both positive and negative. See http://blog.mypersonalbrilliance.com/index.cfm?commentID=357


Some of the Fran Kick podcast's highlights:

Episode 1 - Awareness

• The state of education today
• Why measuring how smart kids are may not be the smartest thing
• Why leading by example is so much more productive than the traditional carrot and stick approach
• A key to adult's ability to influence kids
• A measurement of success in the classroom
• The double-edged sword of 'anything is possible'
• Why first working on the Personal Brilliance catalysts in the classroom can make the difference for effective learning
• Why awareness and perspective is the first and most important part
• A self-awareness exercise
• The power of perspective
• The life and death effect of Awareness in relationship to recent school tragedies

Episode 2 - Curiosity

• Curiosity and eight year old twin boys
• How we train ourselves to not ask questions
• Why what and how questions are better than why questions
• Getting kids to self reflect and then share with adults
• What were you thinking?
• Interactive vs. interrogatory curiosity
• What's best for the kids?
• What happened to recess?

Episode 3 - Focus

• Dual focus as a key to success
• The brick wall of focus
• Focus in the traditional sense may dull our children's brilliance
• Multi-tasking isn't bad, it's just different
• Understanding the process of the young mind can increase our innovation
• Why kids are smarter than you think
• How dual focus can serve us in this 24/7 always on world
• A message for marketers - even kids don't want to be sold
• Why 1+1 is not 2

Episode 4 - Initiative

• Kickin' it in is about making things happen rather than talking about it happening
• The number one thing you can do to support a young person's initiative
• Moving from fantasy to reality
• How to grind the dream into reality
• A way to be supportive while being practical
• Process orientation
• An alternative to taking just one next step
• A brilliant idea implemented in a unique way
• Spreading brilliance - let it go

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Jim Canterucci is the author of Personal Brilliance. Find out how brilliant you really are with the Personal Brilliance Quotient (PBQ) at www.MyPersonalBrilliance.com.

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