Category: professional development
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A to Z of excellent trainer traits competition – The final scores!
Well done everyone who managed to complete the last round. It was a tough one with six of, possibly the most difficult letters, in the alphabet. Thanks again to everyone who contributed at any point in the competition as I am sure that everyones’ contributions have given us something to think about and reflect on…
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Are you keeping your participants interested?
Sorry for the delay on the 5th episode of Ask Logicool. I was on holidays and didn’t have the capability to upload the files necessary to make the podcasts etc work. In this episode we follow on with our discussion on how to keep participants interested and focused. There are some excellent tips and strategies…
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Who are you?
We have had a number of posts on emotional intelligence which is a key part of your overall makeup. Another factor to consider is your own personality. What sort of personality do you have? I am a strong believer of the principle that if you understand your own personality and behaviour you have a…
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A to Z of excellent trainer traits competition – Part 6 (Final)
A very tough round last week with some excellent S words. The winners are Greg 3 points, Stuart 2 points and Lin 1 point. The last round is now upon us and of course there are 6 letters left. The twist for the last round is that all six letters, U,V, W, X, Y, Z…
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Body Language
The area of body language that I want to discuss today is closely related to emotional intelligence. Most of the articles you read are specifically about how to read another person’s body language which is a very important skill to have as an advanced trainer. Just as importantly though is your ability to ensure that…
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Good Trainers?
I just read a blog on writing and they had this little joke in it which goes like this: Top One Habits of Amazing Writers 1. They write It occurred to me that the same applies for good trainers. Unfortunately I think that a lot of textbooks and other online articles are often written by people…
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A to Z of excellent trainer traits competition – Part 5
Sorry for the delay in this round. I was away for the Easter Weekend and there was no power and no phone lines so technology was not on the agenda. A bit of controversy last week, which was probably my fault as I didn’t make it completely clear. Anyway the judge has taken this into…
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Ken Robinson Live – Almost!
As requested by some people I have put a link here to the audio version of the Sir Ken Robinson Interview which was on this morning. The audio quality is not great which is interesting since it sounded better live while I watched it. If you couldn’t make the webinar it is worth listening to.…
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How do you define success?
Please read this blog post from Seth Godin first and then continue with my post. He does raise some good points. Does the teacher sound like you? I know that many of us are bound (or are we) by the systems that we must work within. In doing this do with stiffle real learning, do…