Last week I wrote about receiving a wonderful email from a Learning and Development Roundtable member asking me for my top Learning and Development books. It gave me a great opportunity to dive into 30+ years of my learning resources and share them with you. Last week I shared fifteen … [Read more...] about My top Learning and Development books – 30+ years worth (Part Two)
I had a wonderful email from a Learning and Development Roundtable member recently asking me for my top Learning and Development books. She wrote: “I wanted to ask if you have any recommendations for books/ training manuals for working with vulnerable youth (in an international context) or any … [Read more...] about My top Learning and Development books – 30+ years worth (Part One)
Need to give a workshop? A presentation? Sales pitch? Do yourself a favour and use the four C’s from The Moth - one of my all-time favourite resources. If you’ve not heard of them before, the Moth is all about live storytelling done incredibly well about almost any topic you can … [Read more...] about Like moths to a flame – draw your audience in with these Four C’s
Hybrid. Does the mere term cause you to grind your teeth and send shivers down your spine (and not in a good way)? I’ve got your back and your spine. Now that you’ve got a handle on Zoom meetings and/or MS Teams, it’s time to up your game with a hybrid. I shared the … [Read more...] about Hankering for hybrid events? Here’s how, part two 
I know, I know. You just got the handle on Zoom meetings and/or MS Teams and now we’re faced with the multiple challenges of hybrid. The learning curve never ends. Which can alternately be energizing and exhausting. There’s hope and even loads of opportunities with hybrids. Note: … [Read more...] about Hankering for hybrid events? Here’s how, part one
Last week I shared an easy opportunity to leverage your training design, how to get three for the price of one, in fact. To recap, most of us focus only on delivering our training. You know, that ________ hour (insert the training length) workshop on ________ (insert your topic) to … [Read more...] about How to design more bang for your training buck (and get three for the price of one) part two
What if I told you that there was an easy opportunity to leverage your training design, three for the price of one, in fact. Most of us focus only on delivering our training. You know, that ________ hour (insert the training length) workshop on ________ (insert your topic) to ______ … [Read more...] about How to design more bang for your training buck (and get three for the price of one)
Would you hire a plumber to sew you a suit? What about hiring a gynecologist to teach you violin? No? It sounds absurd, right? Yet many people erroneously believe that being a subject matter expert is enough to be able to teach. In other words, if I know a subject, that … [Read more...] about Three wildly important components for powerful trainings
Easter eggs. Do visions of chocolate dance in your head? Sorry. That’s not the kind of Easter Eggs I’m talking about. These ones are much more intriguing not to mention much easier on your waistline. But first a question. How many items do you see in this … [Read more...] about Surprise and delight your workshop participants by using Easter Eggs
“We’d rather be rather stuck than screwed.” In other words, we’d rather play it small and keep on keeping on, than change lanes, change course and change direction. Below are the seven tips to handle your dreaded learning curve. Keep reading. This excellent quote is from the incisive, … [Read more...] about Seven tips to handle your dreaded learning curve
When my kids were little and we visited our good friend Tricia and her kids, one of the first things they’d do was pull out the dress- up bag. Inside that bag were treasures galore. In a mere matter of minutes, one of the kids could be a pirate, while another was a dancer and yet … [Read more...] about Do you have a ‘Try Stuff’ box? Here’s how to get one
What the F?! Or rather, what the four F’s? You’ve got a workshop to deliver, a course to teach, a presentation to get through. Here’s some handy advice for how to shine bright. Find out what the four F's can do to your learning! F number 1 Find your focus. Instead … [Read more...] about What the (four) Fs?!
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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
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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
