What a Cool Tool

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  I came across this site purely by default, as I often do. What it does is take any word you choose and instantly populate in graphical terms, all the antonyms and synonyms associated with it. For example, I used my company name, “Natural” and it produced this brilliant graphic with related nouns and adjectives. … Read more

Presentation Tip – 10 Ways To Stop Boring Your Listeners (How to use Vocal Variety)

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  Here’s the problem and its remedy is vocal variety. You are giving a speech or presentation and,  although the content is excellent and  matches your audience’s expectation and needs, nobody is listening. Vocal variety can cure your bored audience. Instead you are looking at blank, disinterested faces. Someone is checking their watch, another is … Read more

Email and SMS Language

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  Shorthand has been around since before the days of Pitman I’m sure, and every generation seems to invent its own language.  Lately in my training sessions I’ve noted an increase in younger delegates texting away during sessions (that’s another topic!). I’ve noticed they use short codes the same as the ones in Email, Chat … Read more

Technology … love it!

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There are some exciting new web applications floating around cyberspace these days. Here are a  few I’ve been exploring lately: Dokeos.com- an e-learning tool that is open source (ie free and collaboratively built). It looks very comprehensive having used the online demo. At some point I may download it and see how it works under … Read more

Using Powerpoint Better

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Death by PowerPoint View more documents from Alexei Kapterev. Have to say I, like many trainers, am guilty of using ppt as a prompt as much as a learning tool. Alexai and others serve to remind us that less can be more. It’s quick to knock up a ppt presentation. It’s more time consuming to … Read more

Live and learn

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Live life as if you will die tomorrow, learn, as if you will live forever                                                                                    Mahatma Gandhi In these times of negativity, it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture.  Under threat, our natural tendency is to withdraw, go quiet, protect. It’s like hiding from the dragon until it has passed. That’s … Read more

Action Learning

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Wow! Dr Michael Marquardt is an undisputed king of Action Learning.  Recently he took a group of us through the process and theory behind conducting Action Learning and it was brilliant. I learned even more about the technique and found my skills grew over the time we spent together. Action Learning is a deceptively simple … Read more