Category: Emotional Intelligence
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Is teaching your passion?
I’ll be honest passion is one of my favourite words. It’s not a word I am going to use out loud but I do think that someone in every person’s life they need to do something that they really enjoy. Your very fortunate if that happens to be your job. I don’t run into many…
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Teaching intuition – is it possible?
The great challenge of training is not training skills or knowledge but behaviours, attitudes and personal attributes such as integrity, professionalism, creativity and intuition. Some of these examples can be approached from a skill and knowledge platform for example training participants in creativity techniques or exposing participants to theory and research on ethics and integrity…
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Body Language and Lying
As a trainer you need to be able to read people, your audience. Are they getting the message? Do they understand you? Do they think you are an idiot? Are they faking it? Are they lying to you? I have talked about body language before but here is a good post from lifehacker on body…
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Motivation – what’s new
By coincidence I have been training a number of groups across different programs the importance of motivation. I have a number of different strategies that I use to cover this very big topic but I recently found a great video clip which has proven to be extremely useful. I haven’t read Daniel’s book on this…
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Job Satisfaction
When I was younger I thought that the whole point of work was to get paid as much as possible and to do as little as possible. This view changed over time and gradually as my working life took on a range of different jobs, roles and organisations I realised that even though I had…
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People watching and training
This might seem like a odd topic to bring up in a training, education and assessment blog but I came across this post the other day called How to begin people watching and it reminded me that I have recommended to new trainers and other groups that I have delivered to that one of the…
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Smart, Smarter, Smartest.
Check out this new post from Seth Godin on Getting smart about the hierarchy of smart It is a slightly different take on the one that trainers often adopt or Unconscious incompetence Conscious incompetence Conscious competence Unconscious competence His final point though is very interesting and I am very aware of it. Treat an expert…
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Yuck Moments
What is a Yuck Moment? Watch the video to check out what it means and their importance to trainers. I didn’t make this term up as it is a quite legitimate topic in moral philosophy. If you really want to know all of the detailed information, issues and moral and ethical considerations check out this…
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Having a bad training day?
We all have them. A training day that just doesn’t work. It could be the equipment. It could be a persistent clown in the group. It could be a really resistant group of trainees who just don’t want to be there. Whatever it was it doesn’t really matter because there are many more good…
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More sides to the story
This training tips 56 video has a twist. Of course that is right at the end of the video but, hey, it is only 56 seconds. This video is a continuation of last weeks video on understanding the multiple sides of any story. This was brought home to me acutely when I was recently in…