🗝️ A key heads-up: we're kicking off a month-long celebration of learning, and there's a prize in it for you, including the chance to win a 1:1 call with me. Why? It's the one-year anniversary of the Transformative Trainers Academy (my membership for experts who've been asked to teach but never … [Read more...] about The Simple Way to Spot Your Own Learning Origin Story
In my work with trainers and leaders around the world, I've noticed a pattern. The people who actually follow through on their goals aren't necessarily more talented or more motivated. They just asked better questions upfront. What's missing for both of them isn't willpower or skill. … [Read more...] about How to Actually Follow Through: The 5 W’s Goal-Setting Framework Part 2
In my work with trainers and leaders around the world, I've noticed a pattern. The people who actually follow through on their goals aren't necessarily more talented or more motivated. They just asked better questions upfront. Meet Priya. She's a talented trainer who has … [Read more...] about How to Actually Follow Through: The 5 W’s Goal-Setting Framework Part 1
Where Do Your Eyeballs Land? A Simple Design Check for Trainers and Facilitators Marsha Shandur, a fabulously funny and bright colleague ...someone I have a monthly catch-up call with ... recently showed me a worksheet she'd designed. That's part of it above (shared with permission, of … [Read more...] about Bad Design Is Costing You — Here’s a 30-second fix for your worksheets, reports, and more
"If I catch anyone with your hands in your pockets, you'll need to do ten pushups in front of the whole room," proclaimed the instructor, in a room of about a hundred people. True story. This was some thirty years ago, when I went to a sports coaching clinic. Do you know what I … [Read more...] about What 55,000 learners from 150 countries taught me about teaching
This started out as my regular recap of my annual project, which was to have been taking a deep dive into pre-colonial education. But before I tell you how and why I detoured, let me tell you about my annual projects. Being the learning junkie that I am, I practice all types of … [Read more...] about Ten insider lessons from launching the Transformative Trainers Academy (and how they benefit you)
I was doing a global training for the UN in Cairo. People had gathered from the four corners for an intensive training on program evaluation. It was supposed to be a competency-based training. And then it happened. Some of the participants asked me, “Lee-Anne, if we don’t happen to … [Read more...] about Struggling to Learn Something New? These 4 S.A.K.E. Elements Can Help You Gain Traction Fast
Around 70% of people globally will experience a potentially traumatic event during their lifetime. In my trauma-informed training over the past few decades, I’ve worked with people who’ve survived El Shabab attacks, child soldiers, survivors of gender-based violence, kidnapping, … [Read more...] about Trauma-informed training: what is it and why you need to know about it Part Two
Around 70% of people globally will experience a potentially traumatic event during their lifetime. About 6% will go on to develop PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Source: WHO. In my trauma-informed training over the past few decades, I’ve worked with people who’ve survived El … [Read more...] about Trauma-informed training: what is it and why you need to know about it Part One
Want to transform your teaching? Maybe you run workshops or trainings, and you want your audience to be totally engaged and excited, and to leave having actually learned what you need them to, every single time you teach. Powerful teaching is a direct line to powerful learning. This isn’t just … [Read more...] about Unlock Better Teaching: Final Countdown To Get Founding Member Access
What’s in your hall of shame? Your learning hall of shame, that is. You know, the time(s) when you were trying to learn something, likely something you were really interested in and motivated to learn, and then, through a cruel confluence of happenings, your learning was crushed, your heart … [Read more...] about Training mistakes from the hall of shame (and how to avoid them)
You probably have at least one area that you’re a subject matter expert in. Right?! And you’ve probably spent at least a little bit of time getting that key subject matter of yours into the brains and hearts of others. A.k.a. teaching, facilitating, coaching. Do you want to do more, though, … [Read more...] about Is Your Trainer’s Calling A Whisper Or A Roar? How To Know You’re Meant For More
The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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