Category: professional development
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Sunday Zephyr – Intros
Hope you are enjoying your Sunday. I have a new program starting next week and it is very important for next year with a big client involved. The art of the intro in so important. Check out the humorous video below and reflect on your introduction skills. Can’t see the video – click here
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This weeks review is about review. It has been a work at home week, essentially doing a lot of assessment. Here is how it looked: Mon/Wed night C IV TAE – finished the program, straight into assessing final results. Tuesday night Dip PM. Friday 8 to 5 – C IV Project Management. Completed the final…
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What will the future of education be?
Who knows? Maybe the guy below? Maybe not? It is an interesting set of slides and also a video at the end. Worth a look and listen and a bit of reflection. You have probably heard parts of it before. I think they are all guessing and poking around but the real answer is that…
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E-Learning Tools
For all of those people interested in or who do some elearning design have a read of the article below. I have used Captivate, Qarbon and Articulate and I knew that there were some other tools out there but here is a list of authoring tools I didn’t know existed that are worth exploring when…
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Mastery?
Sorry no Sunday Zephyr again! Mastery – not forgetting to do the Sunday Zephyr post. Maybe? It is a very popular topic, mastery. Personally I am intrigued by it because that is what I would like to achieve and what I would like to see my my participants achieve. Here are some quotes via Slideshare…
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More Online Courses
Another contender to the open online university market. They do look good and in December I might try a program or two from here. Check it out and let me know what you think. See INVERSITY here
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No goals, no passion, no plans, failure. Its all good.
There are many, many articles and videos on how to live your dream etc. Scott Adams, the writer of Dilbert has some different ideas and they are not that radical. One of them is to ditch gaols. Read the article below and see what you think. I agree on some aspects but I think it…
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Emotional Intelligence for Trainers
I am about to start reading a new book titled ‘Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers‘ which looks very interesting but it appears that to achieve better emotional intelligence (an absolute essential for effective teaching) I might be better concentrating on the type of book I am currently reading, ‘To the Lighthouse’ by Virginia Woolf. I…
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Friday Review
Here is another weekly review technique using seven questions courtesy of the changeblog. This week was back to busy mode even though we had the Monday off. As a brief recap I carried out the following: Two night classes – C IV TAE and a Diploma of Project Management Two distance programs in PM (one…
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Creativity – What is it?
If you read this blog regularly you know I am fascinated by creativity and how it operates with great trainers. Here is an excellent short video on creativity, in particular how to be creative. Can’t see the video – click here