Author: Darren
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Sunday Zephyr – Learn, teach, run.
How is your Sunday going? I stumbled on this video during the week. Great speech with many interesting and diverse ideas. Key points are learn, everyone should be a teacher and run. I like all three of those ideas. Can’t see the video – click here
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Brain Stuff
A good video to update your knowledge on how the brain really operates. Can’t see the video – click here
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Work Life Balance
I have been doing some sessions around the topic of work life balance recently and this video just popped up. It provides a really good explanation to why this concept is a problem. My favourite video on this topic is below the first video. Great presentation and sound message on WLB. Can’t see the video…
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Difficult Conversations
Photo by Marcus Neto I have been delivering a lot of training lately around the topics of conflict and difficult conversations. It is a tough area for most people but especially for managers. The article below provides a simple approach to difficult conversations. Read the article here
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Learning Principles
Photo by William Bout What are learning principles? Do you know that there are 12? Read the article below to find out what they are. Read the article here.
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Sunday Zephyr – Diversity and conflict
How is your Sunday going? I showed this video (see below) this week for the first time and it went over exceptionally well. Great message and provoked a lot of interesting discussion. Try it out. Can’t see the video – click here
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What should L&D Depts really be doing
Photo by Joshua Earle I’m quite confused by most L&D departments. That don’t really seem to promote learning and they really have very little to do with development. They do seem to manage rooms and catering and often create a fantastic array of rules which make it difficult for an employee to engage with learning that…
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Sunday Zephyr – Happiness Report
Photo by NASA How is your Sunday going? I forgot to post this a while ago. If you have some time today check out the World Happiness Report. You can also watch the short summary video below. Have a great week. Read the report here. Can’t see the video – click here
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Sunday Zephyr – Inspirational teaching
Photo by Juskteez Vu How is your Sunday going? Some weeks are tough and you need to remind yourself that teaching and training is a very demanding but ultimately a very rewarding career. You get to help people to learn, grow, develop and master skills, knowledge and concepts. To do this though you have to put…