Category: Training skills
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Learning, performance and teaching more effectively
Photo by Eli Francis Here is a good video on how to learn more effectively, perform at a higher standard and become a better teacher. Can’t see the video – click here
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Getting back into training
Photo by Faustin Tuyambaze For many teachers and trainers this is the first real week back on the job. If you have to check a roll of new students don’t do this. Can’t see the video – click here
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Being Funny
When you ask a group of people what attributes they want a good trainer to have you will inevitably get a good sense of humour as one of those critical attributes. Ok, but how do you get a good sense of humour or how do you become funny. I generally go with self deprecating humour…
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Interesting People
I am sure that at times in your training sessions you have the occasional interesting participant. No, I’m not talking about the painful participant. I mean the ones that are just a little different. Who often see things differently or have a different way of operating around other people. Maybe your one of them. Here…
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Leadership
When you are the trainer you are a leader. You are leading people to achieve their own learning goals and of course in most cases you are leading them to achieve a particular set of goals that the organisation wants them to achieve. It isn’t exactly the same as a business leader but many of…
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Twenty Five Years of Training and 11 Tips
Yesterday I turned 52 and realised that I have been training in some shape or form for about 25 years. That has ranged from Infants school to Primary to Secondary school, to outdoor education and wilderness training to corporate, not for profit, public, government training, years of instructional design, elearning design, development and facilitation. And…
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Things that bug you
I archive a lot of material for future blog posts and I came across this one (see below) which I still find amusing, 46 Things that Bug People. I would agree with most of them and it occurs to me that many trainers do some of these things without thinking about the affect they have…
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Graphics??
I have never really understood why there is jpeg, png etc graphics and which one I am supposed to be using. Here is a great guide that answers all of the questions. Source: WhoIsHostingThis.com
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Sunday Zephyr – Online Courses
I know I have written about online courses before but on this quiet Sunday why don’t you cruise this list of 25 free online course sites and enrol for a program. You might learn something, develop a talent or just get an understanding of the future of education. See the 25 sites here.
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Systems thinking
I am a systems thinker and I believe I teach using that approach. I only recently found this out. Check out this basic information on systems thinking and teaching. See the Systems Thinking Website