Category: Learning resources
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Sunday Zephyr – Happiness
Photo by MARK ADRIANE on Unsplash How’s your Sunday going? Are you happy? Confused about what happiness is? I’m pretty easy to please and make happy. A cold beer and a well cooked steak will do it. I am curious though as I find in my travels that a lot of people do not appear to be happy.…
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Toxic Employees
Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash As some of you are aware I deliver a lot of training sessions on performance management and conflict. One of the big questions is what do you do with the one bad apple? The toxic employee. There are many approaches to this and it obviously depends on the person, the situation and…
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Measuring business in a different way
Photo by Caju Gomes on Unsplash Interesting video below on measuring the intangible stuff in business. The guy, Chip Conley also wrote a book on this. The link below has some great points but check out the Emotional Equations. I have used some in training. Useful and fun. Link to emotional equations. Can’t see the video – click…
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Fear of public speaking
Photo by Marcos Luiz Photograph on Unsplash Yes, I still get a little nervous before every training session and I have delivered many, many sessions, speeches and presentations. I get over it pretty quick though. I know that many people get quite stressed out by making a presentation. Maybe the article below will assist you. For the trainers…
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Emotional Intelligence Assessments
Photo by nikko macaspac on Unsplash I wrote a short program on EI recently and I needed to locate some free assessments. The article below is a good intro to the topic and also has a list of useful tests at the end of the article. Read the article here
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The art of the short but productive meeting
I have delivered quite a few training sessions on productive meetings over the last 12 months. I am a big advocate for the short meeting and I consistently state that a meeting should go longer than 20 minutes. I doing this for effect and I later explain that some meetings (only some) can go longer.…
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Mission Statements
Photo by Darko Popovic on Unsplash I was doing some training over the last two weeks on strategic planning and then operational planning. If you are doing this yourself you will know that one difficult thing for many participants to comprehend is the mission statement and it’s purpose. I found this great article which provides 50 mission statements.…
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Sunday Zephyr – Cross Cultural Communication
Photo by Tim Marshall on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? At some time today I am going to be continuing an online program ‘Improving your intercultural competence’. I am getting some useful information out of the program and thought I would share a video from the program. Hope you enjoy it. Can’t see the video – click…
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Video downloader – Wow!
Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash I tried this video downloader out on the weekend and it is great. Very handy to have the video on your own computer or on a USB when you are in areas where the internet is dodgy or just doesn’t exist. It is much better than the previous one I had used.…
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Values and teamwork
Photo by Mathias Jensen on Unsplash Last week I was in Bega delivering a series of programs around values and their importance to teamwork and achieving organisational goals. I think that a lot of managers and employees believe that values are just something you find on the wall in poster form, particularly in the head office reception area.…