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So you've finally decided to go for it and design your first workshop, tele-class, or home study! Now what? This article is the first of six in a series of Training Design Tips. First things first. You...
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It would be logical to assume that any personal development work we do would help us manage our stress, rather than cause more of it. In reality, however, this isnt always the case, and this article...
View ArticleA Brief Look at Adult Learning
In this day and age, more and more adults who have been part of the workforce all their lives are considering adult learning as a potentially valuable tool to polish their existing skills or learn new...
View ArticleAdult Learning Music – Remember When This Process Was Fun and Not Frustrating...
Coming to grips with learning to play music is just like learning a martial art or any sport for that matter. It is a series of steps, a journey of failure and success. Reflecting on how you used to...
View ArticleSoft Skills – Successful Expatriation in a Nutshell
Although the growth in expatriate assignments slowed significantly during 2007 and 2008, economic growth in newly industrialized countries is picking up in 2009. With increasing GDP-figures growing...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Myths And Realities About Business Coaching
I think it is safe to say that there are many preconceived notions about business coaching. Furthermore, some of these notions really are myths rather than reality. In an attempt to provide some...
View ArticleSocial Media Versus Higher Education
The teaching model has remained mostly unchanged since the 19th century. Some teachers are already breaking the fold and beginning to use new tools at their exposure. Welcome to Learning 2.0.(Visited...
View ArticleThe Hard truth about Soft Skills – 60 Essential Soft Skills for Business
Soft skills are sometimes difficult to identify and even more difficult to quantify. They are seen as some of the most prized skills in business and employment – we distinguish Soft Skills from Hard...
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View ArticleA Cosy Chat? – 10 Things that Coaching is Not
Coaching is a term that has been banalized and changed to mean virtually anything that involves one-to-one training or advice to group training or anything that involves training that could be sold at...
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People who are involved in the implementation of learning and development (L & D) solutions in organisations need no convincing on the added value that a coherent Learning management System (LMS)...
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"Soft skills are the key to providing workers with the core skills in communication, team work, leadership; personal effectiveness skills required to leverage ones individual strengths."(Visited 152...
View ArticleKeeping The Pace – Powerful Time Management Skills
Do you sometimes feel like the white rabbit in Alice In Wonderland? "I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!" You might be aware of time management tips in the world but during times of increased stress your...
View ArticleThe Winning Attitude of a Positive Self Image
The importance of having a winning attitude and what that can do for your self image. With any type of personal development a positive self image is a quality that you cannot be without. The use of...
View ArticleWant to be successful? – Just Focus!
Lately I have had many people ask me “to what do you attribute to your success in sales?” Over the past four years with Absolute Networking I have had the highest customer satisfaction and sales...
View ArticleHow To Learn Great Management from Our Kids
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Like myself, many people have had negative experiences while going to school. Because the way of teaching wasn't consistent with your individual way of learning, you may of had difficulties with...
View Article21 Tips for ultra-productive meetings
Do you have the feeling that you are running from meeting to meeting and wondering why you were there in the first place? Does your company suffer from “chronic meetingitus”? Do you hang around in...
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There are many types of team building interventions and like a carpenter, you need to select the right tool for the job. However, before you begin building "the perfect team," you may wish to ask...
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The more motivated you are to learn, the higher your chances of success become. Why do you want to learn ? is a key question and maintaining your motivation level is crucial for successful long-term...
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As coaches we often say that coaching is not something which can be described in words, it must be experienced. On one occasion when I was asked to speak on the subject unexpectedly, I followed a few...
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Yes, it’s me again, bursting all the balloons and shattering all the dreams of the terminally lazy and hopelessly deluded – I don’t mean to be rude to anyone there, but it still amazes me that some...
View Article10 Steps to Implementing 360° Feedback as a Powerful Learning tool
360° feedback is a multi-source form of feedback aimed at improving performance in the workplace and can be used in a number of contexts in the organisation. The source of the feedback is meant to...
View Article10 Reasons Why Training Fails So Often
Millions of people in as many companies spend billions a day on training, in an attempt to improve on skills and competences, assimilate new concepts and learn. Learning involves physical changes in...
View ArticleGroup Coaching – Transforming Groups into Teams
Some purists will have their hackles up after reading the title of this post, stating that the only form of coaching is one-to-one and any form of group coaching should be termed training, workshops or...
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Delegation is one of the key aspects of leadership and management and one of the kingpins in the development of human capital throughout the organisation, a skill that can be learnt, but one that is...
View ArticleLifelong Learning
Lifelong learning is a valuable tool for personal and professional development at any age, but particularly for Third Agers. This article reports on how one Third Ager learns from young adults in his...
View ArticleThere’s no point fighting stress – Manage it!
Have you have ever been in a stressful situation – what am I saying? Everybody has been, and go through stressful situations nearly everyday of their lives – stress is a natural fact of life. So why do...
View ArticleWhy Bother Writing Learning Objectives?
Why bother writing Learning Objectives? Why go to the bother of writing learning objectives for your training program? Our business sees many programs that simply wear participants out by being nine...
View ArticleCoaching Tools – The Johari Window
The Johari window was invented by two Americans in the 1950’s, Joseph Luff and Harry to explore relationships and interpersonal skills as part as an activity that gets a person to think fruitfully...
View ArticleWhy traditional education hates social learning
What’s the problem with social learning ? Well, there are many – one thing is that it actually works, which can send a shudder of fear up the spine of some mainstream educators. Other reasons are that...
View ArticleHow do you know if you are getting Coaching?
Coaching - the word that either leaves us with very positive or very negative feelings, due in part to the pseudo-psychological techniques that are sometimes used in this almost mystical practice. Now,...
View ArticleHow do you know when coaching works?
This is a question that anyone involved in coaching – from both sides – client and coach wonder about. There is a thread on LinkedIn with the same title that is well commented, some are a bit too...
View ArticleWhy we need to change the way we learn – Fast!
There have been excellent arguments that have promoted the notions of Lifelong Learning since the 1950s (see the work of Carl Rogers et al.), but never has the argument for LLL held so much water....
View ArticleMiracle language learning cures – neither miracles nor cures
Miracle language learning cures – there are so many theories and received ideas about what makes a good learner (especially a good language learner) that a penny for every one would make someone very...
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