Yes we can a rejoinder to don winiecki's rejoinder about saving the world with HPT

Abstract

I would rather be involved in saving the world than destroying it. Everything I do contributes in a small way to one or the other: to saving the world or destroying it. All the little contributions add up just as surely as one step after another add up to a walk in the park. I can help save the world by functioning as a Human Performance Technology (HPT) professional. I am not qualified to help as a farmer, construction worker, mathematician, physicist, chemist, social worker, psychiatrist, bill collector, politician, financier, administrator, entertainer, or garbage collector. Those of us in HPT cannot save the world all by ourselves, but I believe that we can help any person or any professional do a better job of doing his or her work so that it helps rather than hinders the gargantuan task of saving the world. I make my contribution to saving the world by applying methods, principles, and concepts of HPT. So do many of you! How do I know? Because you and I have a documented track record. Among scores of other purposes, we have used HPT to demonstrably enable people to-• organize and run schools effectively. • manage public school classrooms so they function effectively. • learn how to learn, and thereby succeed in school. • stop being low performers and become high-level performers at a great variety of tasks and in a great variety of settings. • become successful executives who can implement a major initiative.• implement incentive systems that actually work to improve performances. • do a great variety of other valuable things in a great variety of settings. I can document results in all seven of the areas above and have done so in a masters series presentation (Brethower, 1996). I could also document results in many additional areas. Please add your own items to the list above and then ask yourself two questions: • Would it help save the world if we helped performers perform more effectively, individuals learn more effectively, parents parent more effectively, managers manage more effectively, executives execute more effectively, leaders lead more effectively, teams solve problems and plan more effectively, and communities implement community activities and programs more effectively? • Can you imagine the world being saved unless these things were done?

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