Training Assessment Education

Category: Change

  • ZOOM or FACE to FACE?

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    That is the question. It has been interesting to suddenly go from almost 5 days a week delivering face to face programs to all virtual programs using predominantly Zoom. I like Zoom but it still doesn’t feel that same as delivering to a room of active participants. My Zoom audiences have been great. But there…

  • Interesting Times

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    Thought it would be a great idea to get my blog back into action. It has been a little random lately has I have been a little distracted by what is going on in the world. In fact, that is a bit of a lie really. I have probably never been more disconnected from the…

  • Change?

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    I am constantly talking about change and how to bring about change. Difficult? Yes, but we all know that. I have incorporated the video below into some sessions because its funny, engaging and real. Hope you can use it.

  • Happy Workplaces

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    Are you happy at work? I go to a lot of workplaces and unfortunately I don’t see too many happy people. There’s some out there but not many. A lot of the training I do around leadership is meant to assist in creating productive, happy workplaces but too many managers and leaders struggle to change…

  • 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…

  • Are you Enlightened?

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    Photo by Nghia Le on Unsplash I just finished reading Steven Pinker’s book Enlightenment Now. It should be compulsory reading for everyone. It isn’t an easy read either so at times I found myself reading certain sections a couple of times to understand the complex concepts. It is a critical read because essentially it is about how we…

  • 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…

  • Setting Fear Goals

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    Photo by Glen Carrie I don’t set goals on new years eve. I generally wait for a few weeks until the festive season settles down and I start to think about the year ahead. So I recently set some goals for the year but this year I am using the fear goal process. I found this…

  • Purpose, Bloody Purpose

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    Photo by Joshua Hibbert I’ve been thinking about purpose a lot lately. This could be due to a few sessions that I have conducted on operational planning, values and purpose or just my own troubled thoughts about what I am doing in the twighlight part of my working career. This is not an epiphany, as it…

  • Flexible workforce – Flexible training

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    Please read the article below. It gives a good overview of the future workforce (mainly contractors) and the way that training will need to become more agile. Read the article here.