Month: April 2017
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Sunday Zephyr – Inspirational teaching
Photo by Juskteez Vu How is your Sunday going? Some weeks are tough and you need to remind yourself that teaching and training is a very demanding but ultimately a very rewarding career. You get to help people to learn, grow, develop and master skills, knowledge and concepts. To do this though you have to put…
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Emotions – what are they really?
Photo by Andrew Branch I am constantly talking about emotions in courses these days – particularly since emotional intelligence has really exploded in the area of leadership. What are emotions though? Read the interesting article below and maybe read the book. Read the article here
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Mindfulness?
As stated in my previous post I am doing a great deal of training at present around the topic of emotional intelligence. One aspect of that is mindfulness. Mindfulness has become over hyped and confused – I believe. To me it is just being present. Sometimes. You don’t have to be present all of the…
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Sorry – haven’t posted recently
Hi everyone. Sorry I haven’t posted regularly. It has been a very busy time, both work and personal. Lots of work ahead of the next few weeks. But I finally had the chance to sit down and post again. I am now back on schedule. I have been doing a lot of training around emotional…
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Innovation Barriers
Photo by William Iven I have some innovation training coming up soon which I really enjoy. It is great to talk about and discuss but the real challenge is getting managers to go past the talk and encourage their teams to be innovative. Of course there is more involved than just encouragement. The big challenge for…
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Sunday Zephyr – Meditation
Photo by Kalen Emsley How is your Sunday going? This week I was taking a group through emotional intelligence. Part of the program was exposing them to some basic meditation which went well. Meditation is something I have been doing for quite a few years now. Meditation has for many people become a very complex and…