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 | Mar 10, 2014 | Working With Groups |
Ever get that feeling that you don’t know what’s going to happen when you are facilitating the work of a group of people – whether they are trying to solve a problem, make a decision – or in my case this last weekend; create a vision for their organisation. It happens...
by Peter | Feb 28, 2014 | Tools 4 Change |
It was a frosty May morning. The training room was the staff canteen, buried deep in the hangar of a major airlines engineering department. I got there early to set things up. It was a long, narrow room, a kilometer long it seemed – row upon row of industrial...
by Peter | Dec 1, 2013 | Adventures |
Life in Ubud, Bali is uncomplicated. Ceremony and ritual blend into the everyday, and nature surrounds you in a rich tapestry of rice paddies and jungle valleys. Pull up a chair in any café in town and you could be sitting sit next to a corporate executive on career...
by Peter | Oct 7, 2013 | Working With Groups |
I’ll never forget the day I wanted to make a great impression on a colleague. I was to present to a group of my peers on the topic of Belbins team roles. I knew nothing about it, but I didn’t want to turn down the offer to impress my colleague. I choked it big time....
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 | Aug 21, 2013 | Tools 4 Change |
You’ve heard the saying a picture is worth a thousand words. And we tell stories in our training programs so we can illustrate our key messages, so you could say a picture is worth a thousand stories. In this post I want to talk about the value of the visual image,...
by Peter | Aug 8, 2013 | Adventures |
It came down to the wire. I’d planned a two-week vacation diving in the Philippines and received an email two days before the flight over there. A Client wanted to know if I was available to work in Beirut. Turns out I was free to work, it meant cutting the vacation...
by Peter | Jul 29, 2013 | Tools 4 Change |
Let’s face it, the thing that keeps us corporate trainers in business is the fact that most leaders and managers don’t get the whole self awareness thing; the lack of it and the impact of that on the culture of their team, department or organisation....
by Peter | Jul 24, 2013 | Working With Groups |
I’m staring at a blank screen thinking of what to write for this post. I guess this is something all bloggers, indeed, all writers face. What do I do now? This is also a really scary place to get to in a training room; when you’ve run out of something to say. In fact...
