Month: April 2011
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Practice makes you perfect or does it just make you the same?
Here’s something to think about. All musicians, artists, writers, sports people practice for many hours a day to perfect their art (yes even sports people call it an art). Their practice involves ever increasing difficulty, range and diversity so that they can master every facet of their art. They practice under different conditions, with different…
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Your Resume – is it doing it’s job?
Really Ugly Résumés I was going to spend some time during the Easter break working on my resume but I things got away from me and I was actually working on a writing project for a large training organisation which had to be completed today. I am going to get to this as my eportfolio could…
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Long weekend dabling
What are you doing on the long weekend? Dabling in something I hope. I am often talking to trainers about the importance of what they do when they aren’t training people. It’s your hobbies and interests that allow you to relate to your widely varied participants. This doesn’t mean you have to do everything but if…
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Using flowcharts
Flowchart care of the simplecorner I often use flow chart diagrams to explain to clients and students how something works or how the process is meant to operate. I have previously talked about a tool called linoit which I really like but here is a new one, Lucidchart, that is different in that it is more…
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Failure and the art of great training
There’s a lot to be said about failure and there are plenty of people out there who want to talk about it and warn you that failure is just around the corner. The answer for most people is don’t try anything risky, in fact don’t try anything at all because you don’t want to fail?…
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Training and dancing
I was waiting for a long black to turn up yesterday and I over heard this young boy say to his mum, “I always dance better when my back is to the audience”. Interesting comment. I wondered why. Is it because when he can’t see the audience he is not distracted and can concentrate on…
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Diploma TAA & Diploma Government (Project Management)
For those who are interested I will be delivering an elearning skill set from the Diploma of Training and Assessment and the full Diploma Government (Project Management) program at Learning Lab which is located right next to Central Station in Sydney. The best thing is both programs are subsidised by the government and hence you…
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Solving Problems
Solving problems is a big part of what trainers do. I feel like that is all I have be doing this week. It starts with how do we find out what our people and organisation need ie skills, knowledge, behaviours? Problem. Then we move to what sort of training can we provide to remove the…
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Presentation skills
Simple little post today just like this simple little video on how to create an effective presentation. Hope this helps everyone who is struggling to get it right. Me included.
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Gaming, education and training
Here is a good article about gaming and education. It’s not new. It’s not telling us anything that hasn’t been told to us for quite a few years but it does get straight to the point. Why hasn’t gaming, education and training come together. It must be a perfect match? Well isn’t it? I think…