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  • Know your Stuff & Know your Audience

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    Guest Blogger – The Blonde Kiwi L&D is a balance between delivering a message and giving people the tools to discover that message for themselves. Case studies are perfect to give people the tools to have that Aha moment and discover the message for themselves. So whats in writing a good case study? The experts say multiple…

  • What makes a good training workbook?

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      Fiona, Olga and Roxana Our challenge!  To find out what we think makes a good training workbook.  After a lot of searching (and some our collective experience thrown in),  this is what we came up with.  Tell us what you think? Can you do better? We think the ADDIE model sums it up neatly: …

  • When Google Doesn’t Know Everything!!!

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    Written by Guest Blogger Craig 🙂 While searching through the online world looking for information on writing better case studies, why was I so shocked that all the answers lay around writing business case studies? Could it be that us trainers are the forgotten breed? Could it be that education isn’t important? Well let me…

  • The Blackhole of Learning Activities

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      What is an activity? What is your definition of an activity in the learning environment? When I think about activities within a face to face sphere, I think team work, collaboration, role plays, discussion and debate. For me it is the formal and informal activities that involve collaboration and team work in a learning…

  • Professional Development

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    Every trainer needs to include at least some professional development in each year’s calendar. That may not be of a formal type like a seminar or an actual training course but can include reading a few good texts, reading some useful blogs and listening to some related podcasts. I came across two good seminars this…

  • Are you learning anything?

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    Please read this article from the Huffington Post. Basically it states that 45% of college students don’t learn much in college. Pretty disappointing really, especially when you consider the amount of money and time that goes into the process. Is it the same in your country? I don’t think we have had a similar study…

  • 5 PowerPoint Tips

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    I’ve done a few posts on PowerPoint. If you want to access those you can search for them or here are some convenient links: Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 Post 4 Post 5 Post 6 I will give credit though to the author of this great PowerPoint show called You suck at PowerPoint. Excellent.…

  • Sir Ken, Again, Again!

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    By now, if you read this blog regularly, you will know that I love a Sir Ken Robinson video. There are a few of them throughout this blog. Well, there is a new one and this could be his best. It is also great as he has teamed up with RSA Animate. I hope  that…

  • The last word on creativity?

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    I think that I have shown this video before but it worth showing again as a closer to our creativity series. For now anyway. This has been an interesting series on creativity and I hope it has helped you to understand the concept a little better. There is a truck load of information out there…

  • Creative toys

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    This is a great website setup by the BBC to help people, particularly groups to be more creative. They have provided some online tools which help you to generate ideas and creative thoughts. If you haven’t used tools like this before make sure you read the instructions and then have a play. Try them out…