Authenticity: How to be genuine when you present
How authentic are you to your audiences? Tom Bird & Jeremy Cassell, authors of The Leader’s Guide to Presenting, explore… Critical to your success as a presenter is recognising that your audience will be judging you from the moment you stand in front of them. They cannot help it and they do not consciously know they […]
Finally Embracing Women Leaders as Women
Some may think my life is weird. I’m a serious academic who loves teaching business to students from around the world. On the other hand, I teach karate to young elementary school kids. Yesterday, I was knee deep in business failure statistics and the latest marketing automation innovation. And last night I had to keep […]
Social learning: feedback in e-learning
Even though it is often used in connection with social media, social learning is older and its scope broader than that. Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura defined it as ‘Learning through observing and imitating the behavior of others’ in 1971. Social learning is an important mechanism in e-learning, which works by looking at each other’s responses […]
How can you create a culture of hungry learners? Adopt a marketing mindset
Learning culture is a trending topic for many learning and development professionals – and there’s a good reason why, says Stephanie Morgan, Director of Learning Solutions at Bray Leino Learning. Creating a learning culture within your organisation has a host of companywide benefits. But for now I am going to highlight three pertinent reasons why learning […]
What can we learn from military leadership about motivating people?
Nicky Moffat CBE, former Director of Personnel & Brigadier at the British Army, offered a fascinating insight into military leadership at the CIPD Learning and Development Show on Wednesday 25 April in London. We civilians certainly have a lesson or two to learn from the military’s approach to leadership – that much was certainly made […]
A Mindful Guide To Challenging Conversations
A conversation that goes awry at work can feel nightmarish and become the source of prolonged mental agonising and gut-wrenching stress. We can easily get stuck in loops of rumination and catastrophising: Could I have said it differently? Did I stand up for myself? Why is Jim so unprofessional, mean and downright wrong? Why am […]
How to measure communication skills online?
“Know thyself!” With this ancient Greek saying philosophers, authors and artists have been emphasizing the importance of self-knowledge for ages. Among them Socrates, Plato (in their dialogues) and, a little more recently, The Wachowski’s (in “The Matrix”). Knowing what your strengths are provides you with self-confidence and enables you to do even more with the […]
How to influence in the overwhelming world of communication
How can you influence your employees in the overwhelming world of communication? Presentation coach Simon de Cintra reveals his top tips. The art of effective communication is so critical in this modern, ever inclusive world, with the need to connect and engage effectively across countries, languages, religion, ages, gender and more. To get the best […]
Introverts at work: seven tips to make sure everyone gets a say in meetings
Introverts can bring a lot of value to your business, but you need to create the right environment, especially in meetings, to ensure their voice is heard. The workplace is often dominated by those who assert their physical presence above others, whether it’s a hearty laugh, a disagreement heard through a wall or a tendency […]
How to Increase the Teamwork in HR and Sales Team
In many organizations, the remarkable achievements recorded in sales and increase in revenue is due to the collaboration between the HR team and the sales team. Working closely with the sales team enables the HR officers to understand the sales strategies enough to know the areas of improvement that will complement their efforts. A good […]
Best places to find evidence within HR/L&D
Hello everyone, I have been working in L&D for a few years now and started my CIPD level 5 in L&D last year to gain a more in depth and strategic knowledge of the subject. Within the qualification I have come across a number of concepts that appear to be industry standards/current wisdom but I […]
How you can move from problem-focused to solution-focused
Today’s leadership requires a totally different way of looking at things when it comes to encouraging creative problem-solving. Leadership is about acknowledging a problem and immediately exploring the opportunity behind it. It believes that every problem hides a solution that opens up to new options. This is what we call a solutions-focused mindset. Every conflict […]
Why you need to create a personal brand to conquer L&D skills
There has been a lot of pressure on the modern L&D leader in the past 18 months to build their skills and capabilities, moving from tactical to strategic and aligning learning to business objectives. However, despite the influx of discussion around this, and the industry acceptance to head in this direction, the reality is that […]
Building a SADEL Organisation: a look at teams
Building a Self-Directed, Agile, Digital, Exponential, Learning (SADEL) organisation is critical to survival in a digital world. In part 4 of a 5-part series, organisational behaviourist and learning strategist Kerryn Kohl takes an in-depth look at building teams in a SADEL organisation. In part 3 we explored the core of this framework, the mindset and […]
Nuggets of Wisdom 2.0
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision,then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” ~ Audre Lorde People always ask me why I go to so many Wisdom 2.0 events, and it is true, I go to a lot! Over the past five years […]
How do you lead the way in L&D?
How well do you represent the Learning & Development (L&D) profession? When Training Zone asked me to write on this subject, I thought I’d share some ways I lead the way. Take a look below: 1 – Walk the Talk I personally think that when you are passionate about what you do, it is easy […]
How Chatbots Can Re-shape Elearning Experience
Chatbots are everywhere. You interact with them on messenger apps and websites. Bots can be used for tasks ranging from product recommendation to front line customer service. Driven by AI, chatbots become smarter and smarter over time. This is thanks to machine learning. There’s hardly an industry that has not or will not be influenced […]
How to Improve Your Active Listening: Follow These
Communication skills play a crucial role in the social life of a person. They allow not only exchanging records but also to analyze it, giving a subjective or objective assessment. The method of active listening is one of the complex communicative skills. It makes possible the semantic perception of what the interlocutor said. What […]
Just how memorable are your presentations?
As trainers our words and presentation materials are the tools of our trade. But how often do we stand back and review our own performance? If we listen to ourselves will we be wowed and persuaded? Are we presenting in such a way that our audience members are guaranteed to achieve their learning objectives and […]
Unlock your business voice with these 4 key questions
In my work as a presentation and public speaking coach, I meet a lot of people, working across a huge range of roles and industries, and through them, I hear all sorts of anecdotes set in the workplace. This gives me some really interesting insights into the ways people behave at work and around their […]
