Month: February 2018
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Fear of public speaking
Photo by Marcos Luiz Photograph on Unsplash Yes, I still get a little nervous before every training session and I have delivered many, many sessions, speeches and presentations. I get over it pretty quick though. I know that many people get quite stressed out by making a presentation. Maybe the article below will assist you. For the trainers…
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Emotional Intelligence Assessments
Photo by nikko macaspac on Unsplash I wrote a short program on EI recently and I needed to locate some free assessments. The article below is a good intro to the topic and also has a list of useful tests at the end of the article. Read the article here
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The art of the short but productive meeting
I have delivered quite a few training sessions on productive meetings over the last 12 months. I am a big advocate for the short meeting and I consistently state that a meeting should go longer than 20 minutes. I doing this for effect and I later explain that some meetings (only some) can go longer.…
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Sunday Zephyr – HOT
Photo by Ryan James Christopher on Unsplash Hi, hope your Sunday is going well. Many of us are going through some very hot weather. It isn’t easy to relax and get ready for another week of work. Here is a great video which may help. Watch and cool down. Watch and enjoy the ride. Can’t see the video…
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Mission Statements
Photo by Darko Popovic on Unsplash I was doing some training over the last two weeks on strategic planning and then operational planning. If you are doing this yourself you will know that one difficult thing for many participants to comprehend is the mission statement and it’s purpose. I found this great article which provides 50 mission statements.…
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Sunday Zephyr – Cross Cultural Communication
Photo by Tim Marshall on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? At some time today I am going to be continuing an online program ‘Improving your intercultural competence’. I am getting some useful information out of the program and thought I would share a video from the program. Hope you enjoy it. Can’t see the video – click…