Category: professional development
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A to Z of excellent trainer traits competition – Part 4
It was a tough round last week. J wasn’t an easy letter. We did have some very good contributions though. Last weeks points went to: 3 points to Matt (Janus – read Matt’s explanation), 2 points Sarah (Juggle) and 1 point to Lin (Justification). I liked to thank Matt for his contributions as he has…
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Staying current and how to be an expert
Here is a good article which discusses how to be an expert. It had some good ideas on how to keep up with your industry in general. Being an expert is an interesting term. To me it means knowing a great deal about your area, keeping up with the latest information, changes and innovations and…
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Seth Godin – webinar
This is a very short blog post to alert you to a great opportunity to hear Seth Godin speak. I have referenced him a number of times in my posts and now you have the opportunity to hear him live. Follow this link to the registration site. The webinar will be held Tuesday, March 23,…
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A to Z of excellent trainer traits competition – Part 2
Well done everyone who took part in the first section of this competition. For those who didn’t there is still 5 more weeks to go and hence it can be won by anyone at this point. If you want to check the prize out click here. The winners from last week who submitted attributes associated…
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Professional Development. What are you doing?
Here is a short blog post on the importance of a professional development plan. Do you have one for 2010? I am acutely aware of professional development plans as it is one of the tasks that my Diploma students must complete. For many this is the first time they have ever written a development plan…
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A different conference
Every now an then you have to do something that is a little different to what you are used to. The Virtual Worlds Best Practice Event is one of those events. Its free to attend and of course it is held in a virtual world. To do this you do need to become a resident…
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Trainers are planners
This week’s Training Tips 56 video series is devoted to planning. Trainers can fall into three categories. Trainers who are good planners, trainers who are bad planners and trainers who think that planning is someone else’s job. Let’s make it quite clear, all trainers must be good planners and training is a highly planned process.…
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The A to Z of excellent trainer traits competition
Next Monday I am going to start a six part blog post which will look at four letters of the alphabet per post and describe what I believe are the twenty four traits of excellent trainers. But, personally,I am going to only cover three per post. The fourth one I am going to leave to…
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Online project management for free
One of my students asked me the other day about simple, easy to use, project management tools that enable you to keep track of various projects associated with a Diploma program that I deliver. Personally I have used software like MS Project and Excel to do the job but I have read a number of…