Category: Learning resources
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Good Training Resources
BookBoon is a site that contains many great resources for trainers. They just released a new one on How to increase the effectiveness of your training. Check it out. It’s free.
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Leadership Theories
Another area that I am training lots of people in is leadership. No surprises really as poor leadership is very common and causes many organisational problems. How much do you know about the various leadership theories? Here is ten theories in 5 minutes. Can’t see the video – click here
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Employee Engagement
Engagement is a term that comes up a lot in the type of training I have been delivering over the last few years. What does it mean though and why is it so important? The short video below is an excellent summary and also contains some very important points. Can’t see the video – click…
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Webinar Tool
Here is another elearning tool you may want to investigate. It basically allows you to market your webinars and at present it appears to be free. Slick site with plenty of information. So if you want to run a webinar and you want the audience to be as big as possible maybe this will help.…
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Sunday Zephyr – Poetry
I read the odd bit of poetry – a hangover of my schooling I guess. I am currently reading a book of the greatest 80 poems and I came accross this poem: THE ORANGE TREE by John Shaw Neilson Have a read by clicking the hyperlink above and see what you think. The last stanza…
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Brainswarming rather than Brainstorming
Brainstorming is ineffective, so the author of the article below says. Maybe he is right. Have a read of the article. It has a good short video as well explaining brainswarming. Read the article here at Harvard Business Review
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File Sharing
Over the last few years I have done a lot of file sharing with students and clients. When it works it is great. I have generally had no problems with Dropbox, Google Drive or Box but sometimes you need another service. One I have used recently with NZ participants was WeTransfer which is great. No…
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Great images free!
Getty images has released 35,000,000 images free for use with some very small conditions. Great stuff for online learning and after some quick searching not bad images. So try them out. Access the images here.
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Ethics for all
I teach ethics in a wide variety of programs and it is a subject that really interests me especially when you link it to integrity and leadership. I admit that I can learn more about the philosophy of ethics and thankfully there is a way to do this at any time of the day. Check…
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Googling
Using Google effectively is a real must for all trainers. Here are some tips you may not have been aware of courtesy of Lifehacker. Read the article here.