Category: professional development
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Presentations and anxiety
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash I have delivered quite a few presentations this year as well as delivered a few effective presentation programs. I often tell the audience how presenting is the exact opposite of where I would have thought my career lay. I hated presenting. I feared it. It made me sick with stress and worry. Then…
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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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Sunday Zephyr – Improvement
Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? If you need something to give you a laugh today watch the video below from the World Championships of Death Diving or in other words idiots doing big belly flops. Most of us are not stupid enough or skilled enough to be able to do this but…
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Productivity
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash I’ve been really busy lately and hence I haven’t posted often. Sorry. Priorities. I have been modelling what I have been training ie time management. I am due to deliver another time management session on Wednesday. Only a half day program – saving time. How is your time management? Try out this quiz…
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Me and my audience
Photo by Kristina Flour on Unsplash Are you competent? Is the audience competent? Do they answer your understanding questions accurately? Watch the video below. Can’t see the video – click here
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Sunday Zephyr – Mindset
Photo by MARK ADRIANE on Unsplash How is your Sunday going? Do you have a positive productive mindset? I think I have a positive mindset and I am constantly challenging myself and others. Below is a short (30min) video on tips and hints to create a more positive mindset and life. What have you got to lose? have…
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Learning about learning
Photo by Mike Tinnion on Unsplash As the year comes to a close and hopefully the workload is slowing down a little it is a good time to do some learning yourself rather than teaching others. Here is a good course to start with. It is self paced over six weeks and it is free. It is called…
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Wake Up Monday
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash How was the weekend? Feeling good and ready for a big productive week? Rating your performance this week as exceptional already. Time to wake up and really understand your abilities. Watch the video below and spend this week re-evaluating your abilities. Can’t see the video – click here
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Sunday Zephyr – Long Weekend
More info on the photo here How is your long weekend going (For OZ readers)? I am a big fan of podcasts. I listen to them when I run and basically every time I drive or travel. I have always just relied on iTunes for my podcasts but recently I found PodcastOne which has some…
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Seeing things differently
As a trainer you need to see and experience other stuff. How will you understand participants who are not like you? I recently read the book “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger. It’s about how to view art in this case painting. I don’t know anything about painting. Great book. I learnt things that I…