Category: Training Tips 56
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Stay fit trainers or else!
I was reading this article the other day from Mashable titled, “Your Desk Job Makes you Fat, Sick and Dead”. A little bit harsh but sadly true. Trainers are generally lucky as at least when you are training you are on your feet and moving around. Remember to keep you participants moving and mobile as…
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Is training really a waste of time?
The title above is triggered by this article. There really isn’t anything new in this article but it is a good reminder to those new trainers out there and the other trainers who lie to themselves that often training is not as successful as we would like to think it is. This is not something…
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Being a creative trainer
I have written many posts on creativity and training as well as posted quite few videos on YouTube. Here is a good summary that will hopefully get you thinking creatively! Creative Thinking: Your Edge View more presentations from Joanna Maxwell
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Practice – but good practice.
Want to be a better, more effective trainer or for that matter a better anything? Well you are going to have to do a lot of practice. According to some experts 10,000 hours of practice. Where did that figure come from? What sort of practice works best? How much practice per day or session? These…
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Trainers and reading
Here’s a great article from the Harvard Business Review which basically says that reading is good for you and has many business benefits apart from being just good entertainment. Now that should be good news for all those trainers who got books for Christmas. I have said many times in this blog and in my…
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Writing Training Programs
A lot of people ask me how do you get into writing training programs for other organisations. I don’t actually have a good answer to that questions. One day someone asked if I could do it and I said yes and I have been doing it ever since. I think that I do a pretty…
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New Training Tips 56 Video
Hey, its been a while and I do apologise but there haven’t been any video’s from me for a quite a long time. So here’s my new one. It is an important message for all trainers (consultants and internal) but also an important message for all consultants and professionals. You can watch it below or…
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Practice Makes Perfect – well almost!
I watched this video the other day and it reminded me of the importance of practice. Too many program participants just assume that after the program they will be competent and that’s it. No more effort involved. Of course this is rubbish. It takes lots of intense, good quality practice before you become truly competent.…
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Great Conclusions
The next Training Tips 56 video has been released. You can find it at all the usual locations or watch it below. This is the follow up to the Great Introductions video. I have placed that below in case you haven’t seen it. There is obviously a lot that goes on between the introduction and…
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Great Training Introductions
As promised here is our first Training Tips 56 video for the year. Sorry for the delay but it has been a very busy year so far with a number of critical career and business changes and hence I just haven’t had the time. I will be posting new videos regularly so ensure that you…