Category: Learning resources
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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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Setting Goals
Photo by Manasvita S on Unsplash Hope you had a great weekend and you are now fresh and ready for another big week at work. Maybe it is a good time to set some goals for work and life as we zoom into the end of the year. The article below explains some great tips on how to…
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Brain Myths
Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash Occasionally I send out a post on brain myths because, well it is just irritating, that some organisations and trainers just don’t keep up with some of the new information on the brain due to advances in research. It’s not difficult. You just need to read occassionally. I recently delivered a program…
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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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A Better Manager
Photo by Elijah Hiett on Unsplash Most of my training and development is around how to be a better manager. I think I will have a job for as long as I want one as many managers just don’t seem to get it. It’s not that difficult to be a better manager, just be a better person and…
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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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Petrified of Presenting?
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…
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Innovative teams
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.
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Soft Skills
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…