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have both introduced
accelerated learning methods. And they have launched several "strategic
alliances" from their school base.
They're now co-owners of the British franchise for
Stephen Covey's Center for Principled Leadership. They're partners, too, with
innovators Andrew Hughes-Hallett and Alex MacPhail in Speakers International, corporate
development specialists and "big-events" organizers. A Fast Forward subsidiary
produces audiotapes and study notes - produced by the chief examiners - to help high
school students pass their senior exams. And the college staff and Speakers International
work together to use accelerated-learning techniques for developing other programs. A
Speakers International associate company, The Catalyst Group, has instant access to a
database of every book currently in print, so it can instantly locate and supply books,
tapes and other resources for self-improvement, management and learning.
Lansdowne College also flew nine of its teaching staff to
the 1996 International Alliance for Learning Conference in Orlando, Florida. And the
college involves specialist facilitators from its associate companies in seminar and
workshop activity.
Every A-level Lansdowne student is offered an individual
learning-style check. Courses are tailored to individual talents. And working-style checks
are offered to the staffs of corporate clients.
As a typical cooperative arrangement involving the
Templeton group, several hundred corporate clients turned up in Birmingham, England, at 7
o'clock one morning in 1996 for an interactive satellite presentation. Beamed out of
the United States, it featured Stephen Covey, Tom Peters and Peter Senge, sharing views on
the challenges of tomorrow's world and answering immediate queries from dozens of
countries.
About 220,000 business people around the world took part
in that interactive exchange. Paul Templeton says that typifies the potential to engage
the world's best teachers to teach students of every age, anywhere on earth.26
In May 1996 the Templetons took 20 key members of their
college and associated companies on a five-day "retreat" in Spain to see how
best to be a catalyst for new learning methods. Peter Templeton outlined a template to
link "all who want to make the journey into a virtual learning company".27
And by the end of five days, the team had
fleshed that out into a core of key steps around an agreed mission statement that sums it
all up: "To change the way the world learns."
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