Category: Communication
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Cultural differences
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…
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Critical Thinking
Photo by Cristofer Jeschke on Unsplash I posted a video last Friday on decision making. Good decision making also requires critical thinking skills. This has never been so important. Read the article below with some great tips and resources to assist you to develop your critical thinking skills. A good primer to the topic is outlined in the…
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Sunday Zephyr – Communication
Photo by Gabriel Matula on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? I’m out this morning doing the Seven Bridges Walk in Sydney. Should be interesting. Ever had a complex topic to explain and just got more and more confused as you tried to explain it to the training participants. Here is a comedy classic to remind us all…
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I’m Back!
Photo by Vladislav Babienko on Unsplash Sorry, Sorry. I haven’t posted anything for a while. Been a bit busy. I was recently asked to do a little bit of design work around decision making. I found this great short video explaining some of the key principles. Can’t see the video – click here
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Multiple Intelligence’s
Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash How much do you know about the theory and application of multiple intelligence’s? Here is an excellent article and a self assessment – quick and easy. Time to learn. Read the article here. Do the assessment here.
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Time management
For some unknown reason I have been delivering quite a few time management programs lately. Maybe this is just due to the fact that many of us seem overwhelmed with life and what we want to do and achieve and the time frame we have to be able to do this. Generally speaking I am…
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Engaging Graphs
Photo by Carlos Muza on Unsplash I was delivering a program on analysing and presenting research information this week and I always provide examples of engaging graphs. I was asked how you create such graphs. Well here is one site. You can try the free stuff and if your really need it you can pay for a more…
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Productive meetings
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash One of the big questions in regard to productive, effective meetings is how many people should attend. The basic answer to that is only the right people but how many of the right people. HBR has released some research which indicates that it should only be somewhere between 5 to 8 meeting attendees.…
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Emotional Intelligence Test
Photo by Amanda Dalbjörn on Unsplash Last week and again this week I will be conducting some emotional intelligence training. I often get asked if there is a reasonable free test online and after playing around a little I have found that the test below is probably the best you are going to get for free. Try it…
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Sunday Zephyr – Giving clear instructions
Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? It was a very busy week for me loaded with a lot of communication, both from me and a lot of other people. There is a standard training activity in communication programs about giving clear instructions where two people back to back try to provide clear instructions…