How to Avoid Choking in a Public Performance
You are an expert in your field. The management is very impressed with your skills and wants you to share it with others. You have been asked to give a talk to your fellow colleagues or anyone else...
How to Avoid Using Poor Motivational Posters
It has become fashionable to place motivational posters on the walls in the companies. Depending on the nature of the organisation, this can be seen in two ways; a propaganda campaign by the manage...
Why People Forget What They Learn in a Training Course and How to Address It
Imagine attending a training course which at the time you thought was fine and covered a good range of content that you didn’t know about. Sometime later, your colleague asks you about the course a...
Six Proven Techniques to Boost Your Mental Powers
As a successful trainer, you must be able to perform at your best every time you provide a training course. Your aim is not only to teach a given subject to delegates, but to also entertain them an...
What Does it Really Mean to Look into the Future
We all do this, think about our future and asking ourselves how we can improve it. That is a fair question and indeed makes perfect sense for a forward looking progressive society. Unfortunately, i...
How to Avoid Bad Reflective Questions
Some questions are meant to increase our awareness about where we are and encourage us to learn from our experience. However, the way a question is formulated can make a huge difference in what you...
6 Critical Areas to Consider before Running any Training Exercise
To run a successful face-to-face training course, you will need to go through several training exercises. These exercises can be critical in making the training more effective. Unfortunately, many ...
What You Must Absolutely Know About Reinforcement Learning
We all know from experience that there seems to be a connection between reward and learning. We see it clearly in children; “Honey, you can watch one more hour of TV tonight if you clean your room....
It is easy to come across statements that sound scientific or logical. It is one thing to hear them; another to pass them on as a trainer. Unfortunately, over the years a few statements seem to hav...
Why Knowledge of Andragogy Can Improve Training
Andragogy is essentially the science of understanding lifelong adult learning. The theory was developed by Malcolm Knowles in 1960s and the term has since come to name the field of adult learning. ...
How to Become a Master Trainer by Learning from Master Gamers
Imagine delivering a training course to delegates who are half sleep. Is there any point in carrying on? Sure enough, you still get paid for the current session; but surely that’s not your only aim...
Top 5 Time Management Guidelines on Avoiding Procrastination and Increasing Productivity
We all tend to procrastinate when it comes to certain tasks. Procrastination is about leaving a task for a later time and instead focusing on something less important. Sometimes, you may not feel l...
If Your Training is Not Working, You are Not Doing This One Thing
In a Customer Service Skills course: The trainer starts by explaining the principles of customer service. He gets excited and is carried away by explaining more. Delegates meanwhile are quietly lis...
Training Video: Inspirational Quotes
We have created the following motivational video containing many inspiring and famous quotes that we like very much and like to share with you. You can also use the video as a training resource dur...
Praise Everyone Everywhere All the Time
When was the last time you praised someone? If you have to think to answer this question, then you are not doing enough. People are extremely praise-deprived. They long for praise from anyone all t...
Reading Body Language: Sitting Positions
Humans are predictable. Magicians have taken advantage of this predictability for generations. Knowing how to read people helps you significantly in your negotiations, persuasions and overall commu...
Do You Make These 5 Training Mistakes When Delivering a Course
Some mistakes are small and irrelevant while some have bigger but yet manageable consequences. There are however some mistakes that can bring your entire training career down. These are often mista...
10 Tips for Becoming an Interesting Trainer
No one can argue that being an interesting trainer is a quality that will almost always guarantee successful training sessions. No one wants to spend a training day listening to a boring trainer. S...
