Month: May 2016
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Great speaker secrets
A video covering the 7 secrets from the world’s greatest speakers. Can’t see the video – click here
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Brain Stuff
Do you need to brush up on your brain stuff? Here is good collection of brain related TED talks from MakeUseOf. See them here
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Sunday Zephyr – Toasting
How is your Sunday going? Hopefully you are enjoying a great day and resting up for another big week of training and education. Just in case you happen to be enjoying a drink or two today here is a very useful infographic that shows you how to say cheers in 20 different countries. You never know…
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Assessment Anguish
I have been a little tardy in my blog posts lately and a big part of that has been the constant stream of assessments to mark. After a particularly intensive session of assessment I realised that in a lot of cases most answers would be competent given the vagueness of the assessment question. Worse, often…
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Sunday Zephyr – Exercise
Hope your Sunday is going well. I am out running a 1/2 Marathon this morning in Sydney. I haven’t done this run for years and this was the goal to keep fit for the rest of the year and a few more long runs. I find that if I lock a few running races in…
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Lewis Model
I am posting this article for everyone but in particular my Wednesday night leadership group. They need to know about the Lewis model as it is one of their assessment questions but every trainer should also be aware of the model and how it allows us to communicate cross culturally. Please read the article here.
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Getting feedback while presenting
Google has released an instant feedback tool into its slide app. While your presenting, your audience can ask questions and provide feedback. Read the article here to find out more. Can’t see the video – click here
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How do you keep up to date?
We all have to remain competent and in fact as a trainer we have to be a little better than that I think. But how do you do it with limited time and resources? Teaching doesn’t make you current. It might if you were doing something different all the time but doing the same thing…
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Is this the Future?
I have discussed MOOC’s here on many occasions but generally as a self directed learning tool for individuals. What happens if you utilise them as a corporate learning and development tool? Read the article below. Changes the game a bit doesn’t it? Read the article here.