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Presentations: Plan versus Actual

Business Skills Training, Communication, Presentation Skills

This image says so much.  It captures some of the principal Presentation Phobias, in my opinion. It is almost a self contained case for making the use of PowerPoint a criminal offence. Think what would have happened if this presenter hadn’t got his 35 slides all...

"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...

Project Planning really works! OMG!

Business Skills Training, Management Skills, Personality types

Last week I had the honour of working with a team of 15 facilitators from our Musikscool network.  We were working on our biggest project to date, and it was quite the most energising and scary thing I have done in a long while. Here’s the brief we were given by...

Do you take enough risk?

Leadership Skills Training, Life Skills, Personality types

A couple of weeks ago I was working in Houston with my long term friend and business associate Spencer Holmes.  We were running a Project Leadership simulation with a group of senior consultants, including the Global Head of Consulting for a top notch company in their...

The dysfunctional Appraisal

Business Skills Training, Management Skills

Lots of you enjoyed my previous post “The coaching session from hell”, featuring a video nasty in which my erstwhile friend and colleague Spencer Holmes perpetrated the most psychologically damaging coaching session you have ever seen.  I know it was only...
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