Category: professional development
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Ask Logicool – First video!
Finally, I have managed to upload the first video in the series called Ask Logicool. This video series answers your questions. Use the Ask Logicool page (tabe on the blog) to ask your questions and every second Thursday I will attempt to answer your questions. At present the video can be seen on itunes or…
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Fun Follow-up
The last three training tips 56 videos have been about getting more fun into your life. By coincidence I found this great post on 30 things to do to keep from getting bored out of your skull at work. I hope that your job isn’t that bad but some of these ideas are also just…
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How to get more fun into your life
This is the last training tips 56 video on worklife balance does exist. In this episode we look at the three step approach to getting a better fun balance as well as how as a trainer you can assist others to get more fun out of their work and life. I hope you have enjoyed…
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Ask me anything!
Ask me anything, well almost anything. The questions should be related to training and teaching in some way. I am offering this new service as a trial. Every second Thursday I will be compiling the questions that people have sent me and answering them via a YouTube video and maybe podcast. This short video should…
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The three components of effective training?
What makes a training session effective? I am sure you can generate a very big list of factors but lets keep it simple. I have used this diagram in my train the trainer sessions for a number of years to explain how effective training requires three simple components. Get any one of these components wrong…
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How to remain current as a trainer
Training is not the only profession where you need to remain up to date with new changes, theories, strategies and of course technology. I think that would apply to all professions but I often think that trainers, teachers and educators may well be the worst at keeping current, up to date and informed on what…
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Fun or not Fun – that is the question?
The second in the series of videos on work life balance does not exist can be found at the usual locations. Please watch and make any comments that you feel are appropriate. This episode provides some of the simple strategies that can be used to ensure work is more fun than not. Personally, one of…
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What do you make?
This short video poem turned up on a blog that I read occasionally, Open Culture. I hope you enjoy it. I think we often forget how important we can be to others. Certainly in the press and in the general public teachers and trainers often get portrayed as a pack of bludgers who have too…
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Teachers must have Grit!
I have written a few posts on what makes an excellent trainer/teacher. I found some research on the Internet which appears to indicate that to be an effective trainer you have to have grit. This relates again to the emotional intelligence of the person, which I guess is really to be expected. The research paper…
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Worklife/Balance does not exist!
I have just released my latest training tips 56 video at all the usual locations. I guess this is a slightly controversial topic but one that I felt compelled to discuss as the constant references to WorkLife/Balance in all types of media was driving me insane. Who said there should be a balance? What is…