Month: July 2014
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Sunday Zephyr – Lying
I hope your Sunday is relaxing. I think that all trainers are exaggerators. Not liars as such but just prone to stretching the truth at times for effect. Try out the lie test below. Are your lies obvious? Can’t see the video – click here
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PDF documents
I do a lot of work wit PDF documents from reading to marking pdf assessments. At times there are things I would like to do but don’t have the software such as join two pdf docs together for a participant handout. This great website lets you do all sorts of things to pdf’s and it…
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Thought
Update your knowledge of the brain and how it works. In 3 minutes? No, not really but it does cover some key brain concepts. Can’t see the video – click here
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Dayboard
I am a big fan of Google Chrome – that is Googles browser, if you haven’t heard of it. It is simple and easy to use and you can add in lots of useful gadgets. A new one, which still has a lot of work to go is the Dayboard. When installed and you…
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Sunday Zephyr – Brain Work
I hope your Sunday is going well. Trainers deal each day with the brain. We often forget how complex a brain is and we often reduce it down to some type of simple machine that we feed information into. The brain is complex and also easily deceived. The video below shows how easily our brains…
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Voice training
A lot of trainers cover communication in their programs and when they get to voice there is a lack of good resources to use to make that section interesting. Here is a good video from TED on voice and at the end some exercises you can use with your participants. Can’t see the video…
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More productivity
I have written a few posts recently on productivity. Here is another on productivity apps. I use dropbox and evernote and some of the others I am keen to explore. Read the article here