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)
Let’s talk conflict and money. Have you ever paused to think about the cost of conflict in the workplace, both to you and your organization? What if I told you it was £28.5 billion in the UK alone. This represents an “average of just over £1,000 for every employee in the UK each year, and … [Read more...] about Get the knack of negotiation with six skills for nuanced negotiating
They say hard skills (a.k.a. technical skills) get you hired, but lack of so-called soft skills, like communication, can get you fired. Add to that our weariness and overwhelm with the ongoing global pandemic and raging worldwide conflicts, it’s enough to dampen the motivation of even the … [Read more...] about Eight skills for communicating with confidence and clarity and without consternation
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
Quick! Can you recall a recent online meeting or workshop that was interesting, engaging and had a powerful effect? Nope? I thought so. Online meetings and workshops have two things in common - the need to speak publicly and the need to facilitate or teach. And both of … [Read more...] about Join my free workshop on top tips for online facilitating and public speaking
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
I was driving over the Golden Gate bridge on my way to Stanford University to attend an International Development conference. I’d driven my little car all the way there from Vancouver with my best friend. We’d loaded up my trunk with brochures from local NGO agencies to give away at the … [Read more...] about Three is your lucky charm: see, hear and do via Annie Lennox’s I need a man
Here's how to make your online event engaging and intriguing through my handy checklist. Digital engagement. Does the mere mention of digital engagement make your toes curl and your innards quake? Does it make your eyebrows (or more) rise in disbelief because you think great online … [Read more...] about A handy dandy digital checklist for you and your next online event
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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
