Category: professional development
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Psychology Update
I have said on a few occasions that all trainers need to have a good, broad knowledge of psychology as we deal with people and psychology is about the human mind. Below is a video titled the Psychology of Everything. Hope you enjoy it. Can’t see the video – click here.
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Free Education for All
Check out this post on Edudemic. Full of great fee course information for students and of course for trainers and educators.
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Changing or already happened
Often we see a change occurring in slow motion and don’t realise until it is very late that the change has actually already occurred and we missed it. In the recent past the music industry and the book industry watched casually as changes occurred and they both thought that it would either go away, would…
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Reading: What Matters Now
I just finished reading ‘What Matters Now‘ by Gary Hamel which is essentially a book about what a modern organisation may look like or need to be like to be effective. To do that he covers a really broad range of topics and he is a very entertaining and at times amusing writer. Apart from…
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Train that Brain
Some of you may have tried Luminosity or a few of the other brain training programs. There is a new one out there, Cognifit and I had a little play around with it this morning and I do like it’s easy operation. Not sure that I will return often but for some people this may…
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Need Development? Go Online.
I am really enjoying the online program that I enrolled in recently with Stanford University on creativity. It has opened my eyes to some of the possibilities. For me the best part is that I decide when I do it which can be difficult at times when work changes on a daily basis as a…
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Learning by Reading
We all have limited time to learn new things. Fortunately a lot of learning can now occur due to the internet but don’t forget about that old technology, books. I still get a lot of information, knowledge and new skills from reading apart from just reading for fun. In the areas of management, human resources,…
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E learning for Beginners
I was recently invited to submit a guest post by The MBA Training Company. The blog post can be found here and will eventually consist of three posts taking readers through a three step process on how to develop elearning competence. Please check it out and let me know what you think.
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Get Your Theory Right
Every now and then every good trainer should go back to basics and check that their teaching/training/facilitating is meeting sound learning theory principles. I don’t care what you call yourself, trainer, coach, teacher, educator, facilitator…etc (will eventually write a post about this) if you are not adhering to the foundations of learning theory then you…
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Google and Education
Starting this month Google has established a whole series of live hangouts for educators on a vast array of topics relating to teaching, elearning, technology and of course Google products. You can register at this site and also view the schedule from here. Yes it is school orientated but as I have always found…