You may have been selected by your executive to initiate and see through some change program in your organization. Or you may have decided that the time has come to make your mark by dusting off the cobwebs in your workplace. However your change role came about, you have a challenging task ahead of you. Consider this sobering thought. In spite of the importance of successfully implementing workplace change for maintaining your business’s co... Read More
The art of clear thinking is a learnable technique that will help you to sharpen your mind and allow you to cut through rhetoric and evaluate the reasoning (if any) behind the words. To initiate this process, I want to show you six common fallacies, which blur accurate analysis of ideas. Learn them and apply them every day. Democratic fallacy Unreliable reasoning that stems from the idea that the “majority opinion” is a source of trut... Read More
When projects do not make it to deadlines, there are many things going on behind the scenes. As an accidental manager, you are tasked to keep the boat on an even keel with few resources and people. Project management training can help you man the ship effectively and take on more projects. When Do You Need Project Management Training? The boss has tossed you a small scale project, which turns out to be a titanic assignment for you because you do ... Read More
I don’t want to be taken in by the latest fad in leadership development, but neither do I want to be behind the times when it comes to leadership thinking. Can you give me the inside track on where the experts are at with the research and what’s important for me to consider when it comes to leadership development today? If you read many of the reviews of how the science of leadership development has evolved, you could be excused for t... Read More
All leader managers share six common characteristics: 1. Purpose 2. Communication 3. Plan Ahead 4. Conflict 5. Inspire Self towards the positive 6. Inspire Others towards the positive These six can be summarised as; “Be clear, treat people and problems according to the laws of reason and then, within reason, maintain a positive mental attitude. Clarity is the most important characteristic of the leader manager. Clarity relates to developing... Read More
The Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) is a not-for-profit membership association dedicated to the profession of training, workplace learning and human resources development. The CSTD offers awards to honor Canadian-developed stand-alone learning products and programs once a year. These types of training products must have learning objectives, instructional material, and methods to evaluate learning. Criteria for Winning the Can... Read More
Passion Although developing proper eye-contact technique and learning how and when to pause are absolutely essential to acquiring “The Skills” - you’re not finished yet. The last element involves adding the emotional to the mechanical. What we’re referring to here is the element that works to lock in your audience once you’ve successfully engaged them with your eye-contact and person-to-person approach. What we’... Read More
The process that sets you on your way to speaking like the best speakers in the world, speakers who possess The Skills, goes like this: You find a target in your audience and you lock eyeballs. You deliver a complete thought to that one person, and then you do the hardest part, you pause. You pause before turning to the next person, and speak to the next person with your next thought. Here’s a tip to begin the whole process correctly: Whene... Read More
In order to present at the top, in order to acquire The Skills, you must remember three rules that govern everything you do whilst presenting. They’re really quite simple, but sometimes it’s easy to forget the simple things, and these rules must remain in the forefront of your consciousness at all times. Rule Number 1 states: If you’re working too hard, you’re doing it wrong! Rule #2: When you’re doing it right, it&#... Read More
People who get paid well to speak all share one of two traits: either they’re famous, or they own “The Skills”. To be able to move people who don’t know you as a celebrity of some sort, you must know how to keep your audience focused on you and your message, and how to keep them on the same page, on the same wavelength, every step of the way. Keeping an audience with you is simply not possible with the way 99% of all publi... Read More
