8 Habits of Highly Effective Trainers
What is the secret to becoming a successful trainer? What makes a trainer stand out from the competition? Have you ever attended a course that you were so impressed by the trainer that you thought ...
Why Are We Afraid of Delegating and What Can We Do About it
People are afraid of delegation. It is epidemic! Ask your colleagues how good they are in delegation and you are bound to hear something similar to these: “I am terrible at it” “I like to be bet...
The Secret to a Successful Teambuilding is Constructive Collaboration
Research carried out on many teams in large corporations show that they use suboptimal solutions when dealing with conflicts in teams. Every time there is a conflict in the team, they respond in a ...
Formulate Your Sentences Using Effective Assertiveness Skills
Being assertive is not just about expressing your rights; it is also about increasing the efficiency of your communication with others. There are a number of ways you can express yourself to achiev...
How to Come Up With More Creative Ideas
In today’s competitive world, coming up with creative ideas sooner than your competitor can make all the difference between success and failure. However, creativity is not something that you can fo...
Peak Performance: Minimise Stress for Everyone
Deadlines are a fact of modern life and professionals in just about any role need to be able to efficiently deal with them. However, people deal with deadlines in different ways based on their pers...
Powerful Body Language Strategies
When conducting meetings and interacting with other people, your body language can become a critical part of your communication and may even come to define your success or failure. There are a numb...
Effective Teaching Methods: One-Way Teaching
Instructional methods can be divided into one-way and two-way methods. In the one-way method, the direction of the information is from the instructor to the audience. In the two-way method, informa...
An opening exercise such as an icebreaker is useful to start up a training session. As the name suggests, icebreakers are designed to “warm up” the session. It is important to note that delegates n...
How Memory Can Increase Your Training Effectiveness
Just about everybody is involved in either teaching or learning or both. If you are a trainer, your job is highly biased towards the teaching side which means you need to understand how to train yo...
5 Steps to Improve Your Training
Modern methodologies on training such as the TAP program, Accelerated Learning, or other top-of-the-range accredited train-the-trainer programs are based on the fundamental theory of Cognitive Trai...
How to Deal with Procrastination
Procrastination is what we do when avoiding doing important things. We defer our decision or action to a different time. Procrastination is a mechanism for coping with anxiety associated with start...
A team, according to Katz Enbach, is a small group of people with complementary skills, committed to a common purpose and a set of specific performance goals. As a team leader you are likely to inh...
Time Management: Practical Tips
Time management in effect refers to management of what we do about what is important to us. It is about achieving our goals in less time and with less effort. Time management skills are essential f...
Communication in the Workplace
Communication is the exchange of information, ideas and feelings with other people through a medium. In this article we focus on conversation as the most common form of communication in the workpla...
What process should you follow when delivering an appraisal? Which areas are critical? Should you focus on objectives, on personality or on group adaptability? This article explores the concept, id...
It is well known that presenting is different from training. A good trainer focuses on delegates and his intention is to transfer a set of skills to them. In contrast a presenter is interested to r...
5 Quick Steps to Win/Win Negotiation
Negotiation is the process of bargaining that precedes an agreement. Successful negotiation generally results in a contract between the parties. Best type of negotiation is “win-win” which means bo...
