Category: professional development
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Keeping up with Changes in Brain Stuff
I’m still reading and hearing trainers communicate to participants incorrect information about learning styles, left and right brained people and brain training. Check out these three topics carefully on the internet and you will find that they have all been found to be erroneous. Update your knowledge and don’t spread this rubbish around. Here is…
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Competency, Currency and Trainers
I have been really busy lately and have been keen to write a post on trainer competency and currency. If you have any thoughts let me know and I will possibly add them to a future blog on this topic.
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Free Professional Development
(Banner heading from the Virtual Worlds Conference) I have written about MOOCs etc in the past but the article below does a good job of presenting ten free online learning sites. Please remember as well that the World Virtual Education Conference goes live today. Check out the website here. Read the article here.
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Teamwork
I know that many of my readers are trainers who train managers to manage teams effectively. Some readers train people to be more effective in teams and others work in teams to produce a service or product. I do all of those things and I found the article below very useful. It’s a long read…
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Virtual Conference on Education
I let you all know, each year, when the Virtual World Conference on Best Practices in Education is on and it is on very soon. In fact it is on 9 March to the 12th of March. To access the program click here at there website. To access the conference you will need to join secondlife…
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Mindfulness
I get a lot of questions about mindfulness as it is a very popular topic at the moment. It is a very broad concept and if you really want to understand why not attend the free program that is currently running at the moment on futurelearn. It is going into week three but that doesn’t…
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Being Civil
Of course as a trainer you need to be civil. There does appear to be a lot of uncivil behaviour around us at times. Why? No one is really sure but things like social media and mobile phones have been indicated as possible causes. Test you civility below with this quick quiz. I scored 86…
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Teaching and Leadership
When I teach/train people I think of myself as the leader. The leader of the group, leading them in learning something that will assist them and their organisation to achieve a goal that hopefully, they have, mutually set. The article below is about the 10 golden rules of effective management (or leadership) and this might…
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Listening
Training should be more about listening to what your participants have to say than talking at them. Here are some listening tips. Can’t see the video – click here
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Mindfulness – the free course
2015 was the year of mindfulness. Often the information provided was confusing, overly complex and rubbish. If you really want to know what this whole mindfulness thing is about why not take the Monash Uni Mindfulness MOOC which starts in February. I am already enrolled and I hope you join me. Enrol here.