Category: Reflection
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Sunday Zephyr – Being Yourself
How’s your Sunday going? Unfortunately this weekend I have been working on some design work. During the research phase I found a very interesting video. It is funny and deep at the same time. You can watch it and just have a laugh or you can watch it and maybe contemplate it’s meaning over the…
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Sunday Zephyr – Your Year, This Year, Why Not?
How’s your Sunday going? Recovering from a great Australia Day? Thinking about this year? I’ll let the video below do the talking. Do It – what ever it is.
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Productivity
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash I’ve been really busy lately and hence I haven’t posted often. Sorry. Priorities. I have been modelling what I have been training ie time management. I am due to deliver another time management session on Wednesday. Only a half day program – saving time. How is your time management? Try out this quiz…
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Are you Enlightened?
Photo by Nghia Le on Unsplash I just finished reading Steven Pinker’s book Enlightenment Now. It should be compulsory reading for everyone. It isn’t an easy read either so at times I found myself reading certain sections a couple of times to understand the complex concepts. It is a critical read because essentially it is about how we…
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Mind Fitness
I had a very interesting discussion with a colleague about a program I will be running soon, It is on emotional intelligence. Complex concept and many ways you can tackle it as a facilitator. One way is to venture into meditation. I have written posts on this before. I understand that not everyone is open…
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Sunday Zephyr – Feeling clumsy?
Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash How is your weekend going? Everyone has their clumsy day, or week or maybe year. Hopefully you haven’t had a clumsy week but if you have the video below might make you feel better. Pandas are really clumsy. Can’t see the video – click here
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Training and stress
Photo by nikko macaspac on Unsplash Training and teaching can be stressful. It can also make you quite tired. I have my own strategies to deal with this which include rest, running and a healthy diet. I also have periods of just tuning out using reading an Netflix to achieve that. The article below has 5 tips for…
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What should L&D Depts really be doing
Photo by Joshua Earle I’m quite confused by most L&D departments. That don’t really seem to promote learning and they really have very little to do with development. They do seem to manage rooms and catering and often create a fantastic array of rules which make it difficult for an employee to engage with learning that…
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Do you care about what other people think of you?
Photo by Chris Christensen I have read so many articles on the lizard brain, monkey brain, the critic inside etc etc but the one below is the best I have read (ever) that explains how your brain operates and what you can do about it. I’m still not there but I am working on it. Please…
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Day 4 & 5 Reflection
Sorry. My experiment last week had a few technical issues and hence I didn’t get the chance to complete the reflection exercise. So here it is now. Day 4 Reflection – Thursday Same group as yesterday except the topics are Managing finance and budgets and risk management. Overall a good day with plenty of interaction…