by Peter | Sep 29, 2014 | Training and Presentation Skills |
If you want to make an impact in your training (and, um, isn’t that what it’s about) then finding a way to weave stories into your presentations is the most effective way to make learning stick. In this quick video I shot for an internet publishing company...
by Peter | Apr 13, 2014 | Training and Presentation Skills, Working With Groups |
3 ways you get in your own way as a trainer or facilitator. Lack of preparation: TED talk speakers spend an average 200 hours preparing their 20 minute talk. You know too much: And you want people to know if so you can make a good impression. You’ve lost the...
by Peter | Sep 4, 2013 | Training and Presentation Skills |
Training a group of leaders in the Middle East at a pretty sketchy time for them right now, in the middle of the Syrian conflict. Nothing can prepare them for the kind of challenges they face. So this post is really quiet insignifigant in light of this. And I am...
by Peter | May 3, 2013 | Training and Presentation Skills, Working With Groups |
They were shady characters. Maybe 20 years old. The way they kept walking through the cafe, waiting out front, then walking back through again, gave us the feeling something suss was going down. In fact, something wasn’t right in this town. It felt lawless, as...
by Peter | Apr 24, 2013 | Adventures, Training and Presentation Skills, Working With Groups |
The Pressure was on. The first pre-work document came through via an attachement around 11pm.It was a basic series of questions. The first answer described some of the challenges working on deals valued between $300 – $500 million dollars. That was...
by Peter | Apr 18, 2013 | Training and Presentation Skills |
Athletes call it the zone; that feeling where time slows down and your brain goes into laser focus. If you’re of an engineering mindset, or like immediate feedback, it’s too hard to guage that flow state in a training program. But if you can find a way to...
