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Now I really do know how lazy I am!

It’s something I’ve always suspected, but now I know it for certain. I am idle. In the last 4 weeks I have been working flat out, delivering training sessions back to back across 8 different topics. I’ve had to adapt my own materials to deliver...

The 5 things you can do with a question, apart from answer it!

Communication, Presentation Skills

This one comes up a lot in Presentation Skills training: “What do I do if I get asked a question and I don’t know the answer?’ People get overly stressed by this, and as a result spend way too much time preparing their presentation, in the hope that...

My most embarassing moment. Disguised as an article on Leadership.

Business Skills Training, Leadership Skills Training

This post has been inspired by David Kanigan, whose Blog Lead.Learn. Live you really should be subscribed to. He is a senior leader in a New York financial organisation, and yet he finds time to produce uplifting and inspirational articles several times per day, the...

How to compensate for being an Accommodator

Business Skills Training, Conflict, Negotiations

I have just entered the Lion’s Den. The arena where for most people the stakes are as high as they get. You guessed: we’re moving house, and have entered into negotiations on the house of our dreams. The emotions are running high, and a natural...

"How to" or "How not to"? That is the question.

Business Skills Training

Do you learn more from being told how to do something, or being told how NOT to do it? There’s a nice question to ponder, about which my training professional readers could no doubt debate for hours. I think most people intuitively go about helping others to...

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Now I really do know how lazy I am!

The 5 things you can do with a question, apart from answer it!

My most embarassing moment. Disguised as an article on Leadership.

How to compensate for being an Accommodator

"How to" or "How not to"? That is the question.

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