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Month: November 2017

  • Learning about learning

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    Photo by Mike Tinnion on Unsplash As the year comes to a close and hopefully the workload is slowing down a little it is a good time to do some learning yourself rather than teaching others. Here is a good course to start with. It is self paced over six weeks and it is free. It is called…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Feeling clumsy?

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    Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash How is your weekend going? Everyone has their clumsy day, or week or maybe year. Hopefully you haven’t had a clumsy week but if you have the video below might make you feel better. Pandas are really clumsy. Can’t see the video – click here

  • Removing the box

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    Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash I am and have been delivering some training around innovation and continuous improvement. Great area of study but difficult to train people in as it really requires you to start thinking differently. The article is an excellent starter with some good material on some of the innovation tools such as six sigma.…

  • Wake Up Monday

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    Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash How was the weekend? Feeling good and ready for a big productive week? Rating your performance this week as exceptional already. Time to wake up and really understand your abilities. Watch the video below and spend this week re-evaluating your abilities. Can’t see the video – click here

  • Leaders and learning

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    Photo by Daniil Silantev on Unsplash I am in Melbourne today training the senior managers at BMW. Below is a good article on leaders and the importance of learning. Read the article here

  • Sunday Zephyr – Race time

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    Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? It has been a very busy week again for me and as usual I was working during the Melbourne Cup. That has been the case for as long as I can remember. I had some Vic people in my group and they were not too pleased with…

  • Meditation

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    Photo by Jared Rice on Unsplash Meditation has been around for a long time but it is really making a big comeback, particularly in business management and leadership. There are many resources available but this short article is a good primer and also points you to a new book that backs up all of the claims with scientific…

  • Resilience

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    Photo by Frantisek Duris on Unsplash I was writing some learning material on resilience last week and found it difficult to get any really good resource material. If you have to do anything with resilience as a topic here are some good links. Read the following guide: Emotional Resilience Toolkit Read the article: 5 ways to boost your…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Thinking

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    Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? I’m working today, and I was working yesterday and all of last week. Busy times. I am getting some balance in by running and riding my bike. I’m busy with facilitation and writing and honestly I am not complaining, it has been very interesting. I was doing…