Month: November 2015
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Good Morning
How did you wake up this morning? What did you do first and then what was your next set of actions? Did you check your phone and emails first? Did you have a good breakfast? Did you down a coffee while reading the paper? What is the best way to start the day? I don’t…
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Extroverts and Introverts – What are you?
You could assume that most trainers are extroverts – who else would want to get up in front of a group of people and talk all day but you would be wrong. That is not how it works. I am a perfect example of a introvert who changes modes when I am a trainer but…
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Are you in a successful team?
Google released some research last week in regard to successful teams. The five keys are: Psychological safety: Can we take risks on this team without feeling insecure or embarrassed? Dependability: Can we count on each other to do high quality work on time? Structure & clarity: Are goals, roles, and execution plans on our team…
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Ethics training
I am delivering some ethics training this week in Canberra (no jokes about that). Ethics is very important in training. Here are two online quizzes you might like to try to see how ethical you are. Test 1 Test 2
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Sunday Zephyr – The meaning of life
What a great day to think about the meaning of life. This is something I do often when I am really busy as I often wonder what the purpose is as I rush from one place to the next. Below are a few videos which may give you a few clues to the meaning. I…
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More Feedback
I sent out a post on Wednesday about providing feedback to participants. Here is a good follow up article in regard to the value of positive feedback and employees. The same principles though would apply to training participants. Read the article here.
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Feedback
I have been delivering a lot of feedback training lately. It’s not the easiest thing to deliver as it is more about the right attitude. Culturally, in Australia, I believe we find giving positive feedback difficult, unnecessary and often embarrassing so we avoid it. Critical feedback is given out more frequently but often with…
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Online learning – never
Back in the late 90’s I was a huge advocate of online learning and then over the last few years I have been at times very skeptical and then extremely passionate about its place in education and training. My skepticism has come from the extremely slow takeup by many professionals and also the constant failure of…
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Sunday Zephyr – Podcasts
It still surprises me that many people still don’t anything about podcasts. They are free, you can play them any time (download them) and they are great for learning, staying informed and for pure entertainment purposes. Most of them operate like a subscription which just means daily or weekly a new episode is delivered…
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Training, learning or assessment?
I was once called a teacher and then I became a trainer but now I often feel like I am a assessment coach and whatever happened to learning? Do you feel the same. What I mean above was that I used to think the idea was that I was trying to help people learn and…