Category: professional development
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Getting a training job
I wrote a post recently on how doing a human resource program is often a good idea for those people trying to get into a training role. At some point regardless of how you tackle the problem of getting into training you will need to face an interview. For a trainer this should be a…
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International School Interview
For this episode of Ask Logicool I managed to interview the Superintendent of Khartoum International School, Greg Hughes. It was such a fascinating topic and discussion that I will need to show the full interview over three parts. The first part can be viewed at the usual locations (BlipTv, iTunes and YouTube) or you can…
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Body Language
I’ve written a few posts about body language and its importance to trainers. One of the key aspects of body language though is not over interpreting. Make sure you have read informed, knowledgeable articles and that you have gathered suitable quality evidence before you start to read too much into what you see a person…
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Twitter power tips
I did a post last week on the usefulness of twitter for educators. If you haven’t at least had a play with it try it out for 30 minutes and search for topics that interest you and see what it brings up. If you are really starting to get into it and want to know…
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Project managing training
Every aspect of training is a project. Sometimes simple, sometimes complex. Even just delivering a session is a project in itself. I was reminded of this recently as I was delivering a project management program and the concepts that I was teaching were part of the process that I was using to put the actual…
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Twitter – eTool of the week
There has been an incredible amount written about twitter and I am sure that you have an opinion about it even if you have never used it before. If you have never tried it, please give it a go today for just 30 minutes. The reason for this exercise is that most people do not…
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Career questions
Ocassionally we all need to review where we have been, where we currently stand and where we believe we are heading. This could involve your career but it may also involve your social life, your personal development or just what you want to do with your life. The difficult thing about this process of reflection…
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No. Really. We need good teachers?
Sometimes research really irritates me. Why? Because it states the bloody obvious. I know, we need to prove things but at times you wonder why they waste so much effort and time to prove something that the majority of us mere mortals (as opposed to academics) already know and understand. Straight from ACER eNews is…
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Tim Ferris – The updated book
I read Tim Ferris’s book “The 4 – Hour work Week” somewhere back in 2009. I wrote a blog post referring to it as great book that I read that year. I have recently completed the expanded and updated edition and it is bigger and better> The concepts are the same but there is a…
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Interview with Coach of the Year 2010
I finally got the technology in order and managed to interview the ANZI 2010 coach of the Year Debbie Hogg. Debbie is a professional trainer, facilitator and life coach and obviously from the award she is very good at it. This is the first part of the interview and the second half will be…