Can you See the Forest for the Trees?
Sometimes life is just busy. We have the demands of career and family. We have bills to pay, places to go and people to see. We get so focused on carrying on that we can’t see the forest for the...
Brain-Friendly Principles for Learning
Here are nine principles, in no particular order, to consider when designing and delivering learning. Organize learning so it’s easy to understand. You can reduce cognitive load by breaking information down into small, digestible chunks and arranging them into patterns...
Manage Class Time
Facilitation Skills for face-to-face and Virtual training As a trainer, have you ever been rushed to finish a class? Or realised too late that you have more information than time? Or wondered why some of your training classes finish early...
The Deadly Sins of Webinars
Think about your last webinar frustrating experience. What was the problem? Why wasn’t it a 10 on the scale of greatness? Chances are at least one of the deadly sins of webinars was committed. Part of avoiding sins is known...
The Coaching Process
Coaching typically begins with a personal interview to assess the individual’s current opportunities and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action, and establish specific desired outcomes. Subsequent coaching sessions may be conducted in person or using...
Using Video for Learning
More training organisations (including RTOs) than ever are using video as part of their learning strategy. But specifically what part of the strategy? And what’s motivating them to use video rather than face-to-face seminars or synchronous online solutions? Apart from...
Tomorrow’s training
Transforming Training Over the next five years, how you train and educate your staff won’t just change; it’ll transform. What’s the difference? Changing means continuing to do essentially the same thing, only introducing some variation in degree. Transformation means doing...
Using Action Learning With e-learning
Action learning is a process by which participants “learn by doing”: that is, they acquire and apply knowledge through actions rather than traditional instruction. Research on action learning has shown that action learning programs are at least 30 percent more effective...
Neuroscience and Learning
Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field that studies the nervous system. It looks at thought, emotion, and behavior using highly sophisticated technology such as brain-scanning devices that monitor the brain in real time, along with computer models and other techniques that...
Knowing Does Not Equal Doing
Immersive learning Vocational education is about people “doing” something in the workplace. Is about employment readiness. I have participated in numerous discussions with RTOs and employers about the chasm in business between people knowing what to do and actually doing...
