Training Assessment Education

Author: Darren

  • Ah, Compassion!

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    Photo by Brandi Redd on Unsplash I have been doing a lot of training around effective leadership this week. One aspect of that (and there are many) is compassion. What is compassion? Read the article below and take the compassion assessment and then consider how you can demonstrate compassion. Read the article here

  • Effective Workplace Cultures

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    I am facilitating a conference on grievance procedures today but really it is about effective workplace cultures. An effective workplace culture deals with conflict in a healthy manner. If you have to use a grievance procedure you have essentially failed. A good article below from Google re building effective cultures. Read the article here

  • Managing teams effectively

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    Photo by Matteo Vistocco on Unsplash I am spending the next two days training a group of health professionals (32) on how to manage teams more effectively from building capability, managing motivation and change through to managing conflict and performance issues. It will be an engaging two days. I know that I will refer to Googles research regarding…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Time?

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    Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? I delivered a Time Management program last week which went down very well. It reminded me of the importance of getting organised and being disciplined regarding your own time. I had a great group who appeared to enjoy the program and took away some good tips. Below…

  • Petrified of Presenting?

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    Photo by sydney Rae on Unsplash I got that question again last week. How do you stand up there talking to us and make it look so easy? Don’t you get nervous? Yes, I do but it does dissipate quickly. I’ll be honest it used to terrify me. My only answer as to how public speaking became my…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Humour

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    How is your Sunday going? I am relaxing a little today as I have a huge week ahead of me. Even though it is a big week and I will be tired my strategy is as always to have a few laughs and enjoy it as much as possible. Humour in training is absolutely essential.…

  • Innovative teams

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    Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash I do a lot of training around the topics of innovation, teamwork and leadership and I am constantly reading articles, books etc on the topic. Here is a really useful and interesting set of resources from Google on the three topics. Read it here.

  • Soft Skills

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    Photo by Yuriy Kovalev on Unsplash A great deal of my training is essentially the development of soft skills. Conflict resolution, communication, emotional intelligence etc. Often this is not regarded as important as the so called hard skills such as programming, scheduling, planning etc. It’s always rewarding then when you see more and more research indicating that soft…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Happiness

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    Photo by MARK ADRIANE on Unsplash How’s your Sunday going? Are you happy? Confused about what happiness is? I’m pretty easy to please and make happy. A cold beer and a well cooked steak will do it. I am curious though as I find in my travels that a lot of people do not appear to be happy.…

  • Toxic Employees

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    Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash As some of you are aware I deliver a lot of training sessions on performance management and conflict. One of the big questions is what do you do with the one bad apple? The toxic employee. There are many approaches to this and it obviously depends on the person, the situation and…