Category: professional development
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What’s Life Coaching all about?
Have you always been confused or curious about what Life Coaching is all about? Well here is a great little (free) read that might help you. Some great references at the back of the pdf which I found very interesting (more books to read) and some good points on what it isn’t and the process.…
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Trial and Error Training
This is one of the most straight forward common sense video’s I have seen but very applicable to trainers. I have been delivering a lot of project management training over the last few months and it dawned on me after watching this video that I had been telling potential project managers that they really need…
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How to write training blogs
I have been teaching participants how to write blogs over the last few weeks as a part of elearning and coincidently a Linkedin group that I belong to has had a number of posts on what training blogs are out there and what should I write. Two things come from this. One, why not try…
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Brain posts
Thanks to the guest bloggers who posted last week. Great work. I recently found two small articles on the brain. I think it is important that all trainers keep up to date with what is going on in the world of brain research as we have to deal with the brain and any tips into…
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New VOCED database – and it actually seems to work
Short post today. Checkout this new VET database. Actually seems to work. Tell me if you have any problems. My first impression, finally something that is easy to use and can provide effective support to trainers.
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Practice makes you perfect or does it just make you the same?
Here’s something to think about. All musicians, artists, writers, sports people practice for many hours a day to perfect their art (yes even sports people call it an art). Their practice involves ever increasing difficulty, range and diversity so that they can master every facet of their art. They practice under different conditions, with different…
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Your Resume – is it doing it’s job?
Really Ugly Résumés I was going to spend some time during the Easter break working on my resume but I things got away from me and I was actually working on a writing project for a large training organisation which had to be completed today. I am going to get to this as my eportfolio could…
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Long weekend dabling
What are you doing on the long weekend? Dabling in something I hope. I am often talking to trainers about the importance of what they do when they aren’t training people. It’s your hobbies and interests that allow you to relate to your widely varied participants. This doesn’t mean you have to do everything but if…
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Failure and the art of great training
There’s a lot to be said about failure and there are plenty of people out there who want to talk about it and warn you that failure is just around the corner. The answer for most people is don’t try anything risky, in fact don’t try anything at all because you don’t want to fail?…
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Training and dancing
I was waiting for a long black to turn up yesterday and I over heard this young boy say to his mum, “I always dance better when my back is to the audience”. Interesting comment. I wondered why. Is it because when he can’t see the audience he is not distracted and can concentrate on…