Training Blog

September 1, 2010 – Rebecca Kearley – Chartered Management Institute – London, UK
Edited collections of chapters by several hands can founder if presented as a monograph. Potential lack of inclusiveness, repetition, and variety of content and style can result in an unhappy dog’s dinner. However, this is not the case under Jonathan Passmore’s [...]

Performance management of employees is a skill new supervisors must develop in order to earn the trust and respect of their team.

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Hello,
I’m organizing a new sales trategy semianrs and I’m having the challenging task to find the best suitable game or exercise aiming to create a team building athmosphere in the sessions….
The group will be of 15 people maximum as this is going to be a road show around the country…I’ll be very grateful if you [...]

One of the really interesting things about being an invisible trainer, is the way that people genuinely open up to you when you are conducting research. I sometimes imagine this is how it must feel to be a priest.
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Too many times in our quest for success, we believe that if we just find a way to complete the quest, we will suddenly find success. As we think through the idea, we then immediately think about how that would be a perfect goal. Before we know it, we have a new goal we’re [...]

It’s easy to view purchasing departments as evil, but would a different approach serve you better? So many salespeople have told me stories about much they can’t stand working with purchasing departments that I have lost count. I’ve heard every reason, but let’s cut to the chase.  When a salesperson does nothing more than bash a [...]

Recently I had the opportunity to sit in on a discussion of nationally-recognized small business owners. What made this group different is they were in the top 1% for their industry. Each of these CEOs/owners had over the years moved from average sized companies to ones that today are seen by their peers as [...]

With a tough economy, measuring the return on training investment or ROI as become more important to justify the added expenses of developing staff.

August 28, 2010 – Montreal Gazette – Kim Covert, Postmedia News – Canada
First-day anxiety can affect an employee’s performance and distract an employer.
It happens to all of us: that excited “Whoo hoo! I got the job!” is closely followed by the frightening thought, “What do I do now?”
It’s like the first day of high school [...]

Make your audience sit up and take notice. Approach your next public speaking assignment with confidence having learned the tricks of the trade.

One of the great things about this job is that I get to meet and work with lots of people – I must have met and trained thousands – and a couple of workshops over the last couple of weeks have reminded me of the best and the worst aspects of working with people.
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Recently, there have been a number of articles in Middle Eastern publications highlighting the importance of team building for companies in the United Arab Emirates and other GCC countries. Facilitated team building can make a significant contribution to corporate performance. Unfortunately, a pattern is emerging in Dubai that is similar to what has taken [...]

The dilemma for many new presenters is a touch of stage fright. In this article I will explain how the speaker can take a humorous side to public speaking.

by Mark Evenden @ Developing People Ltd
I am often intrigued why senior leaders in organisations remain silent when even the uninitiated can see that the situation desperately needs them to take a lead and speak out. This is sometimes referred to as ostrich style leadership after the widespread (but untrue) belief that ostriches [...]