Month: July 2017
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Practice, Practice, Practice
Photo by Niklas Tidbury on Unsplash To learn you must practice. Not just once but many times. But that practice must also be good effective practice. Most training doesn’t involve much practice because we don’t have time but if you think that through that really is a bit stupid. Watch the video below on practice. Can’t see the…
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Sunday Zephyr – Perspective
Keeping it in perspective. Keeping it real? It’s tough to do when there is so much bad news, rubbish news. I’m having a week off. I am going to do a bit of skiing in NZ and I am going to be keeping it all in perspective. Great little video below on the topic of…
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Blockchains – What does it all mean?
Photo by Radek Grzybowski on Unsplash The word blockchain keeps coming up everywhere and until recently I didn’t really get it. Check out this explanation. It might help. Read the article here.
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Sunday Zephyr – Whales!
Photo by Jennett Bremer on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? It’s whale season and everyone loves a whale video, so here is a great one. Nothing to do with training – enjoy! Jem Cresswell “Giants” – Behind the scenes from Jem Cresswell on Vimeo.
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Training for new hires
Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash A lot of money is lost in training new hires who then leave. Maybe there is a way to reduce that. Read the article below to find out how. Read the article here
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Bias
Photo by Kaleb Nimz on Unsplash I have been talking a lot about confirmation bias recently. This is just one of the many biases. The video below featuring Stephen Fry does a good job of explaining some bias. The video below that explains 12 common biases. As a trainer this information can assist you to assist others to…
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Sunday Zephyr – Adrenalin
Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? Hope you are relaxing and getting ready for the week ahead. My next few weeks are hectic. Travel, different programs and different groups but isn’t that fun. If you need a hit of adrenalin to get things going today watch the video below. Great stuff? Can’t see…
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What work skills will you need for the future?
I have been contemplating the skills required for a trainer in the future, in particular one that works outside of an established RTO. I haven’t worked it out yet but I know that the work environment is changing and I need to come up with some useful strategies if I want to continue to work…
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Sunday Zephyr – Names
How is your Sunday going? You run into some amusing and different names in training. I have some great ones on my list but I can’t say them as this would be abusing my participant’s privacy. I found a great video that demonstrates just how far some parents will go to provide a child with…