Waching daily Jan 31 2019

This is Rashid Kotwal.

This is the final in our three part series on how to make good decisions and become a

better leader.

In part one I covered why having a clear vision, core values, focus and mid to long term targets

allows you to make better decisions.

I also spoke about the importance of taking time out to just think.

Part two went over the 10 commandments of good decision making.

Now let's cover the process.

How you get efficient at making good decisions.

There are two parts.

The issues list and the process to solving them.

The first thing you and your team must become comfortable with is putting issues on the

table without feeling you're going to get shot.

Ergo, you must foster an organisational culture of openness and honesty where everyone no

matter how senior can be held accountable.

Given this you break your issues into short and mid-term lists.

Mid-term is anything that can't be solved this week or this quarter.

This list is where you keep track of them.

Short term weekly leadership lists include anything that needs to be solved in the next

week to quarter.

These are mainly strategic in nature.

Once you have your issue lists, you move into the process of solving them.

There are three steps.

One.

Identify.

Two.

Discuss.

Three.

Solve.

Start with the most important issue.

A filter is if this issue is both important and urgent.

Identify what the real issue is.

The surface symptom is rarely the real issue.

Look for the true cause.

Most often this is people.

So talk about the elephant in the room.

Now, people may get uncomfortable, which is why it's so important to have a culture

of openness and honesty without people pointing fingers or justifying themselves.

Getting to the root cause may take a while, but that's okay.

There's no point in treating symptoms.

Once you have the root cause, discuss solutions.

But don't go round in circles.

Sometimes the solution will be obvious, albeit painful, especially if it involves moving

someone from a role.

Remember you're working towards the greater good, and it's necessary to take short term

pain if that provides the solution.

Now solve the issue.

Make a decision.

Decide on who's responsible and accountable for carrying it out.

Solving issues can take time.

But doing so now you'll save time exponentially in the future by eliminating future symptoms

and other sub issues which will come back to bite you.

One last thing.

When discussing the issue, don't go off on tangents trying to solve other stuff that

comes up.

Stick with the issue in hand and get it done.

Now I hope you've found this series useful.

As always I welcome your comments.

And if you would like help improving your leadership and decision making, leading to

sustained growth, give me a call.

Details are on our site, revealedresources.com where you can find part 1 and part 2 of this

video as well.

Till next time, this is Rashid Kotwal.

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Custom Profile Fields - How to, Moodle, Learnbook, LMS, eCreators - Duration: 8:08.

Hi everyone its Kristian here from the e creators Academy

Today I'm going to talk to you about custom profile fields

These are the fields and additional pieces of information that we can add to the users profile and collect about them

now for some people custom profile fields might simply be just for Data recording purposes

so that we want to collect some information maybe about a date of birth of each of our users

Maybe what state they've come from?

but in other cases where people want to take it a bit further a custom profile field might be used to give access to

people to certain courses

So in this example that I was going to talk about perhaps I want to record whether people have come from New South Wales

Victoria, South Australia, and so on and based off that they are going to get enrolled into certain courses

so I actually need and there's a couple of pieces to that but the main thing that I need then is to create a

Custom profile field for state that will then allow me to use the information that's held within that later down the track

So let's just have a look a little bit at what we've got here

So as an admin I've logged in and I'm under the my users tab on the left hand side and I went in to create

A new user. This is the screen that I'm looking at here

So when you have a look here through this screen, we've got all the typical Moodle fields. All those common fields profile pictures usernames passwords

first-name lastname

but in my case and in the sample that I was showing you were just talking about is that I want to be able to

Record their state so additional names nothing about state

Interests that's talking about tags are still nothing about state

Optional okay. We're getting a bit closer here, but still nothing about state. So this is where we sort of say to ourselves. Okay?

Well, we're going to need our own profile field so you can see here

We got other fields and as a profile background image, there's still nothing about state. Okay, so we need to build our own

So to do this, I'm going to go down to the administration tab. And again, I'll go back into site administration

We go across to the second tab along the users tab

Under accounts we go to user profile field so about halfway down that list and we'll click on there

Now there's two sections to our profile fields

We can create our own profile categories

which is sort of like the folder structures as you can see here other fields is a profile category and

Then within each of those categories we can then add fields themselves

So we can have one or many categories

It's totally up to you. And these categories will show in that collapsible form when you go to create a new user

Now if you do create a profile category and you don't have any fields within it, it won't show up

So it'll remain invisible when you're trying to create a user so just keep that in mind if you've gone and created a category

But didn't put anything in it. It won't actually display. So you haven't done anything wrong

It's just that you've always need a field at least one within a category for it to show up

So I'm not gonna use the other fields one

I'm going to create a category called ear creators, for example, so I clicked on the create a new category

And I'm just going to call it ear creators and I'm gonna click the Save Changes now

You could call it whatever you like

You could call it your state if you want if there was only going to be just that one field in there

So you're currently showing here. I have two categories. Now one called other fields, which has the profile background image in it

And then the e creators category, which is now I can choose from as to what fields I want to put in there

So if you look at the bottom of this page here

We create a new profile field and we can choose any one of these types. So is it just simply a checkbox?

Is it a time and date range?

So maybe is the date the employer you started maybe their birth date maybe the day they completed their induction

Whatever it might be

I've dropped down me which is very typically used especially if we're integrating this with giving them permissions to something else

Because the thing with the drop-down menu is that it keeps data accurate

So, you know

If for example I had someone that was from New South Wales

one person might write at NSW the other person might write New South Wales and I'm gonna have to capture all these

Different versions. So by having a drop-down menu, it means that I can keep it exact a

file upload area a text area or a text input

So this is basically just the difference between a text box and just one line of text. So that's the difference there

So in my case because I want accuracy. I'm going to say drop down menu

Now the short name so this is what the database uses so in my case, I'm just going to call it the state field

The name is what the user sees

so the short name is what the database uses and what we use when we do bulk uploading in the CSV file and

The name is what the user see. So that's where it's grammatically correct capital letters. All those are the things a

Description of the field if you want. You're welcome to add it there and

Then just a couple of other options

So is the field required is the field locked?

therefore does that mean that the user can actually access that data and edit it or is it just only

The uploads that can do that should the data be unique. So can anybody else have the same answer?

Should we display it on the signup page which links with the actual self email based registration?

Who is the field visible to and what category is that field actually going in?

So you can select all of that there just one little thing

I do want to talk about here is is this field required?

Just remember and be careful with this one if you say yes to that and actually toggle that to yes

if there is existing users already in the system the first logging

after this has been set to yes is going to take them straight to their profile page and

Every user will have to answer this question

Because basically the database is now looking at all these records saying I have a required field and for all these users

It's empty

So before we can continue

They must complete it

Now that can be a little bit confusing for users sometimes

Because they're going and logging into the system and suddenly now

They're being taken straight to their user profile page and they're not quite sure what to do

So if you are going to introduce a new required field just make sure that you communicate that out to all your users

So they know exactly what's going on. And what's going to be expected of them

Alright so as we move down the page a bit further we can then go to

Our options so the specific settings around this so as it says there one per line

So these are all the options that are here in that drop-down

So here all my states and if I want I can provide a default value

so this is one that it will always be selected and

The user can then change it from that if they're going to be using other one

So mostly your default value would be the most common item that's going to be selected and we click Save Changes

So as you can see we've now set up a new category and we've also set up a new profile field called state

so if I was to go across and create a new user so under my

Users on the left hand side and click create new user

You'll now see how this looks so the effect shows so the changes take effect straight away. So here's the other field drop-down and then

Here's the e creators one that we've just created there's the state which is selected as Victoria by default

drop-down and we can now select from all the others within that list and

You're done. So thanks for watching. I hope that's helped in giving you a bit more information about custom profile fields

Just remember there is a lot of things that we can do to automate these as well

So this is where we talked about using the advanced code what's option in which we can enroll people into courses based off

Answers to certain custom profile fields within their profile

There's a lot of different options and there's lots more help articles and videos from us around this as well

So, I hope that's helped and we'll talk to you soon