Month: September 2015
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Decision Making
Another concept I have been training people in lately is decision making. I always thought it was a pretty straight forward process but there are a lot of things that can go wrong. Here is a good link to some of the biases that can make a simple decision, poor. Read the article here
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Leadership – get it right please!
I am facilitating a leadership program this week and it always raises some frustration for me as it is not a process you have to learn but more of a philosophy of how you live your life. The majority of people see leadership as power and getting people to do things and it isn’t…
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Sunday Zephyr – More videos
Last Sunday I posted some videos and since I have been enjoying a week away in Noosa I thought I would include a few good videos I saw this week. I hope you enjoy them and have a great Sunday. If you can’t see the video – click here Can’t see the video – click…
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How much do you know about science?
What’s your general science knowledge like? Here is an opportunity to test yourself and contribute to some research. I got one wrong – bummer. Click here to go to the test
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Free images
I have tried a number of options in the past in finding royalty free images for learning resources, slides etc and they have generally failed. Poor quality images or despite their claims the photo’s are not really royalty free. Here is a new site I found that so far is fantastic. Easy to use, royalty…
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Horrible employees
A lot of my work over the last few months has been discussing with a wide range of people what to do when you have a horrible employee. The first thing is realising that they are a horrible employee. Here is a quick checklist that will help you. I hope you don’t find any this…
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Sunday Zephyr – Videos
How is your Sunday going? Maybe you are still in bed? If you need some entertainment I have posted two different types of videos below. Educational and sensational. The educational video’s are titled the history of ideas and contain short videos on some of histories classic ideas and philosophical debates. The second video is about…
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Can a robot do your job?
There is a lot of talk around at the moment of artificial intelligence and robots. I think, quite rightly, that a few people are concerned about their jobs. So do you think that a robot could take over your teaching or training role? I took the simple test compiled by the BBC. I’m not…
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Better than YouTube?
Here is a great website to check out if you want to watch educational videos. You can watch videos that you select or you can just let the site take over. Great way to spend a few hours if you are sick of watching our Prime Minister change every few days. Watch Brainpump here.
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Decisions
I have been writing some training around decision making and found this website which has a decision making assessment. Try it out. I have not read the book on the website but if you are looking for an excellent book on how to make decisions more effectively try out Decisive by the Heath brothers. Take…