Category: professional development
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas. I hope you are having a great day and enjoying a well earned break from work. I have released the next part of the A to Z Delivery series. It is called Character, Charisma & Christmas. I hope you enjoy it. It can be found at all of the usual locations – click…
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Empathy
I train leaders and managers in a wide range of topics and we often touch on empathy. Empathy always comes up as a quality that participants believe management should have. And rightly so. Often it is difficult to understand and grasp. It is harder still to develop empathy as a personal quality. To achieve this…
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Interesting Graphs
It’s time for what happened in 2013 time. Here is a different one though with some educational aspects. Interesting graphs are possible. Hope they get you thinking. Read the graphs here.
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Advice is ………just advice.
As we move into a quieter (business) time of the year I start thinking about next year and what I can do and do better. Maybe one thing I could do better is not do that at all. Lots of advice and books and articles that I have read during the year provide a million…
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Cloud Computing
I hope you have heard about the title of this post – cloud computing. Many find this concept difficult to understand and I have often attempted to explain it to trainers and educators unsatisfactorily. Below is a complicated video featuring cloud computing and Stephen Fry. He does a good job explaining it and why it…
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Christmas Online Learning
Another online learning site. Some of it free and some you pay for – but not much. Worth a look and maybe during your Christmas break you could learn something that you have always been interested in. Maybe you want to teach online. Find the website here: Curious.com
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Do You Know How to Learn?
I am very aware now that what I have learnt most of my life is how to learn. I am quite effective and efficient at learning and it has definitely shaped my life and career. I also realise that many others do not appear to have this ability or at least not at a competent…
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Winding Down or Up?
Are you winding down for the year? I have heard a number of people making that comment already and it I think it says a lot about how hard we are working in today’s world. Winding down is good but I am starting to wind up. I finally have a bit if free time (at…
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Story Telling
I tell a lot of stories when I deliver training. I used to feel a bit self conscious about this at the beginning but now I realise that it is a critical aspect of effective delivery. Of course the story needs to be interesting, often funny and most importantly relevant to the concept that you…
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How many ways are there to teach?
Good question – how many ways are there to teach? What do you think? Recent research indicates that there are about 205 trillion ways. What! No wonder it is complicated and no wonder a text telling you here are the ways to teach (5 to 10) are so wrong. Read the research below to find…