‘Think-Pair-Share’ is a tried and tested method for getting learners to reflect on and deepen their understanding of material. It also has the advantage of breaking your course content up into memorable chunks, and helping your students to stay engaged and…
This exercise will work at the end of pretty much any soft skills course, and especially an NLP-based course. The aim is to help participants transfer their learning from the training room into real life, and anticipate challenges so as…
I’ve been interviewed by Judy Rees for her Collaboration Dynamics podcast. I thought I didn’t have much to say about collaboration (as I think I usually do my best work solo), until Judy reminded me that I’d created what apparently…
Your unconscious beliefs shape and distort your perception of what’s around you. Don’t believe this applies to you? This image, the ‘checker shadow illusion’ proves it does! The ‘checker shadow illusion’ was developed by Edward H. Adelson, Professor of Vision…
How to stop co-presenting disasters – the one thing you need to know from improv comedy If you’re presenting or training with someone else, there’s one thing that both you and your co-trainer need to know to stop your training…
Observe anyone talking for a while and you will probably notice that when they talk about an event in the past, they gesture in a particular direction, and when they talk about the future, they gesture in another direction. Usually…
It’s as if you’re the king of a vast empire, and in a far-flung border province there’s a famine or a flood that’s causing hardship. The people try to deal with it on their own, but eventually they send a…
Or, ‘how to set up the training room’. If you wanted people to shut up and just listen to you, then a ‘theatre style’ arrangement with the chairs in flat rows would be the setup of choice. Everyone is looking…
I put this image up on Facebook and a lot of trainers seemed to like it. So here it is – you can use it freely (yes, even for commercial projects) as long as you leave the copyright statement and…
This is something I learned from an experienced corporate trainer many years ago when I was a hypnotherapist looking to offer my first one-day workshops around specific topics like stress management and self-esteem. It’s the most useful thing I know about…
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