Month: March 2016
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Nothing to do with training
I just had to write this post despite the fact that it doesn’t really have anything to do with training, or does it. I talk a lot about drones in my sessions. I’m not really sure why but they fascinate me and I find that participants are interested in them too. The video below is…
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Book Report
Technically I think this is the first book report I have written in this blog. I was recommended this book, The Magic of Thinking Big, by a few people and it took a while for me to get around to it. I thought it was going to be a common sense read and to a…
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Competency, Currency and Trainers
I have been really busy lately and have been keen to write a post on trainer competency and currency. If you have any thoughts let me know and I will possibly add them to a future blog on this topic.
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Sunday Zephyr – Jobs
How is your Sunday going? Normally this post is light, something easy to read and a little off topic but I thought this Sunday it would be a good idea to examine the future of work. I have been considering this lately as I near the end of my working career ( wishful thinking). We…
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New Resource Website
Here’s a new one for you. A new resource site for teachers has been released which is backed by Stephen Fry. It looks like it might be more geared towards school teachers but maybe not. Depends on how you use the video’s etc. Check out Pindex here
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Sunday Zephyr – Get Musical
How is your Sunday going? If you want to waste a bit of time and have some fun before another big week of training try out this online drum machine. Create a Sunday beat! Drum machine is located here
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Emotional Intelligence
I appear to be doing a lot of training lately around the area of emotional intelligence. It is a very challenging concept (or theory) to teach. I can take participants through what it is but how do you ensure that they are competent when it really comes down to self reflection which could be completely…
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Free Professional Development
(Banner heading from the Virtual Worlds Conference) I have written about MOOCs etc in the past but the article below does a good job of presenting ten free online learning sites. Please remember as well that the World Virtual Education Conference goes live today. Check out the website here. Read the article here.
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Project Management Failure
I often talk to participants about project failure as it is more prevalent than project success. You can learn a lot from project failure. Here is an excellent article on four major project failures and what should have been done. Read the article here
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Sunday Zephyr – Reflection
I hope your Sunday is going well. I read this short article this week which posed 10 questions to ponder if you wanted to make your year a great one. The author Kerry Petsinger of www.lifehack.org posed these 10 questions: 1. Why do I do the work I do? 2. Am I focusing my life on…