Communication – Page 24 – Training Assessment Education

Who wants to watch an online lecture?

Apr 17, 2010

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in Communication, Delivery, e-learning, Future, Presentation

Maybe the lecture portrayed above is on the way out. Please read this post from the Chronicle of Higher Education. It basically covers the issues, pros and cons of putting your lectures, sessions or training online. Most of us are aware that in the university sector a growing number of lecturers post their lectures online,…

Could advertising move into the training environment?

Apr 16, 2010

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Darren

in Communication, Creativity & Innovation, Education & Training Management, Future, Guest authors

This is a guest post by Greg Moriarty. Advertising is everywhere, advertising gets everywhere. But I think as trainers we are quite lucky. The training room seems to have escaped the spread of marketing. Advertisers will look for any surface and cover it with an advert. One ingenious concept involves placing long posters in underground…

Body Language

Apr 10, 2010

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Darren

in Communication, professional development, Training skills

The area of body language that I want to discuss today is closely related to emotional intelligence. Most of the articles you read are specifically about how to read another person’s body language which is a very important skill to have as an advanced trainer. Just as importantly though is your ability to ensure that…

Good Trainers?

Apr 7, 2010

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Darren

in Communication, Delivery, professional development, Training skills

I just read a blog on writing and they had this little joke in it which goes like this: Top One Habits of Amazing Writers 1. They write It occurred to me that the same applies for good trainers. Unfortunately I think that a lot of textbooks and other online articles are often written by people…

Is your trainer’s mind on the job!

Apr 2, 2010

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Darren

in Ask Logicool, Communication, Training skills, Training Videos

The 4th episode of Ask Logicool has been released. It is now provided in four formats, BlipTV, YouTube, iTunes video and iTunes audio. If you want to check the addresses go here to find the directory. After a few experiments I am now ensuring that these are shorter, cover only one question or aspect of…

How do you define success?

Mar 31, 2010

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Darren

in Communication, Emotional Intelligence, professional development

Please read this blog post from Seth Godin first and then continue with my post. He does raise some good points. Does the teacher sound like you? I know that many of us are bound (or are we) by the systems that we must work within. In doing this do with stiffle real learning, do…

Ken Robinson Live!

Mar 26, 2010

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Darren

in Communication, Creativity & Innovation, Training Videos

I watched/listened to a webinar today that was very good about the socially networked classroom. Up until today I had never quite got around to logging on to this particular webinar site as I was always busy and the times were often very inconvenient. It had a few little hiccups but generally the technology worked…

Learning styles

Mar 23, 2010

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Darren

in Communication, Delivery, learning theory, Presentation, Tips, Training skills

Here is a different approach to learning styles that you might find interesting. It is from another blog called performing excellence which appears to be fairly new. Hopefully you are familiar with Kolb, Honey & Mumford and Jung but maybe not so familiar with the 4MAT system which does seem to have some theoretical basis…

A to Z of excellent trainer traits competition – Part 3

Mar 22, 2010

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Darren

in Communication, Creativity & Innovation, Tips, Training skills

We are up to round three in the excellent trainer traits competition. Last weeks points went to: 3 points to Stuart (Guide), 2 points to Greg (Genuine) and 1 point to Matt (Galvanic). I have employed an independent trainer to judge the competition so that I am not involved as I am finding it difficult…

Apology

Mar 11, 2010

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Darren

in Communication

SORRY Just a quick apology if you were having trouble getting into the blog last night. I had a little bit of trouble with a few settings and the system shut down. Hostgator, as usual, was very quick in getting the blog back up and running. I can’t recommend them enough if you are looking…

Category: Communication