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Author: Darren

  • Emotional Intelligence

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    A friend recently asked me what should I do to develop and enhance my Emotional Intelligence during 2019. Big question, with so many different avenues. I thought in this post I would outline just some of ways you can explore EI and also enhance your own EI. First off do some reading. This article available…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Space

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    How’s your Sunday going? Just starting to gear up for another busy year. Doing some admin and stuff like that, eg proving my competency again, for the 20th plus year. Love doing that. If you are doing the same today or thinking about doing it next week and need something to wake you up and…

  • Sunday Zephyr – What, Why, How!

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    How’s your Sunday going? Here is a good video for the new year. Can’t see the video – click here

  • A New Year and Just a Little More Training

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    Welcome to 2019. I am back for another year of training, assessment, coaching, online development etc, etc. Just getting back into work by finishing off an assessment re-write and of course marking some assessments for those students who didn’t want have any break at all over Christmas. Yes, once again somebody posted an assessment on…

  • Balance and Time management

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    I delivered a training session for Panasonic yesterday on Time Management. There are so many things I could say about time management but the key for me is a few critical concepts. No excuses. Your time is really up to you. Manage it. Get disciplined. Spend a few hours trying the apps and strategies and…

  • Hands on Learning

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    I am witnessing some interesting movements in assessment to more valid assessments eg actually having to conduct a stakeholder meeting rather than writing about how you would do it. Complicates the process but is more meaningful.  We are not doing this type of learning though in class. We are still talking about how to do…

  • National HR Summit

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    Photo by Edwin Andrade on Unsplash I would be lucky if I go to one conference every couple of years. I generally don’t have the time. I have booked in for the National HR Summit in Sydney next year though. It is on the 26th and 27th of March. Check out the program. Looks very good. Hope I…

  • Modern management

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    I am delivering a 3 day project management course this week and I know that my biggest challenge is to get the participants to understand that project management is all about people management. You can have a great logical plan but if the people are not engaged then……..Watch the video below. It’s not about PM…

  • Cultural differences

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    Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash I hope you had a great weekend. I’d liked to address a difficult topic this morning. I hope that nobody reads this post the wrong way but I am getting a bit sick of the standard activity in just about all training programs on the topic of cultural difference and what you can…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Magic

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    Photo by Karly Santiago on Unsplash How is your Sunday going. I had a very busy week and for some participants I hope I wove some training magic. Whether I did or not is not for me to interpret but what ever I did I am never going to be bale to perform magic like this guy in…