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Category: Reading/Books

  • The Future of Learning

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    Ok – so last week I proved to myself, at least, that you can’t beat face to face training even though I am a fan of virtual training. I had a great three days taking a group through safety leadership. Building rapport, trust and respect and hopefully some leadership behaviours that will assist them to…

  • Reading, understanding people and empathy

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    First, sorry, I haven’t written a post for a while. It has been a busy hectic time. On top of enjoying a very healthy business period I am right in the middle of moving house and location. I wanted to cover in this post the importance of reading and emotional intelligence. I read sixty plus…

  • Trust

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    I am delivering some training over the next few weeks and one of the topics is trust. It is always an area of great interest to me because on the face of it is so complex. But then, there are some simple principles as well. I really like the article below as it breaks down…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Happiness

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    Photo by MARK ADRIANE on Unsplash How’s your Sunday going? Are you happy? Confused about what happiness is? I’m pretty easy to please and make happy. A cold beer and a well cooked steak will do it. I am curious though as I find in my travels that a lot of people do not appear to be happy.…

  • Mission Statements

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    Photo by Darko Popovic on Unsplash I was doing some training over the last two weeks on strategic planning and then operational planning. If you are doing this yourself you will know that one difficult thing for many participants to comprehend is the mission statement and it’s purpose. I found this great article which provides 50 mission statements.…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Read more this year

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    How is your Sunday going? Mine started with at least an hour of reading. Did yours? I think reading is so important. I don’t care what you read there is just too much research and evidence out there that indicates that reading is good for your brain and your soul. For educators I think it…

  • Yes, Reading is as important as exercise

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    Access this photo and more here I passed a milestone this week. I set a target of reading 40 books this year and I have passed this already. I use Goodreads to track my reading. I have written quite a few posts on the importance of reading particularly for trainers. Read to know,learn and experience.…

  • Seeing things differently

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    As a trainer you need to see and experience other stuff. How will you understand participants who are not like you? I recently read the book “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger. It’s about how to view art in this case painting. I don’t know anything about painting. Great book. I learnt things that I…

  • Making mistakes

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    Photo by Gaelle Marcel on Unsplash Some of the most important things I have learnt in my life have been from some interesting mistakes or errors. Participants enjoy hearing about them as well. Mistakes are an important part of the learning process. Read the article here on mistakes and learning.

  • Sunday Zephyr – Coaching habits

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    Photo by Ben White How is your Sunday going? I finished a really good book this week on coaching called the The Coaching Habit. I have read many books on coaching as it is a big part of my training programs and this is probably the easiest to read and the most practical with many good…