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Author: Darren

  • Human Misjudgement and stupidity

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    Photo by Evan Dennis on Unsplash I recently finished re-reading a book I read over 10 years ago on ‘Understanding Stupidity’. Great book if you can find it. It explains a lot and in particular the current world situation. The video below is another attempt to understand stupidity. We talk about competency a lot in training but we…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Storms

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    Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash How is your weekend going? It has been very dry lately where I live and in a lot of areas of Australia. No rain. The fire threat this summer looms. So this Sunday think of some rain. A nice storm. The video below might help as storms though often destructive are also…

  • Ownership and accountability

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    Photo by David Marcu on Unsplash I have been writing some training material this week for an organisation you all know and they wanted a section on accountability and ownership. I found a great video for this which is hard hitting and very memorable. I have heard Joko interviewed on podcasts a number of times and he is…

  • Seeing things differently

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    As a trainer you need to see and experience other stuff. How will you understand participants who are not like you? I recently read the book “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger. It’s about how to view art in this case painting. I don’t know anything about painting. Great book. I learnt things that I…

  • Making mistakes

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    Photo by Gaelle Marcel on Unsplash Some of the most important things I have learnt in my life have been from some interesting mistakes or errors. Participants enjoy hearing about them as well. Mistakes are an important part of the learning process. Read the article here on mistakes and learning.

  • Sunday Zephyr – Growth Mindset

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    Photo by Daniel Hjalmarsson on Unsplash How’s your Sunday going? I have another big week of training ahead and I am gearing up for that. I wonder how many of my participants are thinking about the training they will get this week. Are they excited? Are they not looking forward to it? The mindset of a participant is…

  • Hiring not Training

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    I have been talking to a lot of organisations over the last few months about performance and performance management. A lot of the issues come from poor hiring. Training can’t fix this. Get the wrong person and basically you are stuck with the wrong person, Training is not going to fix that. I’ll let Google…

  • Sunday Zephyr – News

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    Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? If you have a bit of spare time today try out Google News. I have been giving it a go and it is very good and simple to use. I was trying to just get positive good news stories but I haven’t managed to achieve that yet.…

  • The future of work and the present education and training

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    Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash Work is changing but education and training aren’t. We have adopted technology in our teaching (just) but that isn’t what needs to be changed. The content is often the same as it was 10, 20, 30 years ago. Schools are still teaching stuff that will not be useful in the workplace or…

  • Practice, Practice, Practice

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    Photo by Niklas Tidbury on Unsplash To learn you must practice. Not just once but many times. But that practice must also be good effective practice. Most training doesn’t involve much practice because we don’t have time but if you think that through that really is a bit stupid. Watch the video below on practice. Can’t see the…