Archive for the ‘Training’ Category
How often do you prepare and prepare and prepare and make what you felt was a brilliant presentation, only to have the participants leave grumbling about what a waste of time it was?
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When large companies take on many employees, it is understandable that a manager may feel intimidated at working with many people from different cultures, heterogeneous mixes and differing demographics. A lack of understanding of managing diverse teams can lead to a manager being far less effective at their job. Diversity training is a key component to inform people about diversity within the workplace. Training will help people learn how to communicate more profoundly in the future.
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Recently I helped a small business owner totally re-write his marketing and business plans. The owner was grateful for the new copy, but expressed a concern that he may have issues writing copy for marketing materials or responding to bid proposals later in the year.
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Ever since the fire safety regulatory reform (fire safety) order 2005, fire safety training has become a legal requirement for staff members around the country. As a result, basic fire safety awareness has become dominant in both the workplace and the home. Whether you are an employer, employee or simply a general member of the public, understanding what to do in a fire could well be one of the most important set of skills you ever learn. From understanding basic safety precautions to enrolling in full fire safety training, it is imperative you are familiar with a few basic facts.
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Have you ever wondered why some business mentoring relationships seem to be working out just fine while others may start off with a bang and then eventually simply seem to disintegrate gradually? Before long, mentor and mentee have not communicated in months, and the relationship appears to be strained at best.
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There are twelve blocks to listening. You will find that some are old favorites that you use over and over. Others are held in reserve for certain types of people or situations. Everyone uses listening blocks, so you should not worry if a lot of blocks are familiar. This is an opportunity to become more aware of your blocks at the time you actually use them.
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Becoming a competent manager takes a diverse set of skills from understanding the intricacies of running a profitable business to having a rapport with clients and employees. There are a multitude of management training programmes available that offer a comprehensive overview of what it takes to climb the career ladder and become a good manager, but there are many new ideas in the pipeline that appear to run against traditional management training techniques. A new school of thought advocates the use of emotional intelligence in the workplace; we take a look at the differences between intellectual intelligence and emotional intelligence in management training.
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We're probably mid way through the greatest recession/ depression our generation will ever see, fact. If you're running your own business I want to ongratulate you for having the iniative to get it going in the first place.
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Training has always had the same problems facing it, the main one being time constraints. Organisations have recognised that personal development is needed to get the best out of employees to make them more efficient, however taking people out of work proves costly. This puts many people off developing their staff, which if left can lead to irreversible damage to an organisation.
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After much hard work, I've just passed a student of mine from 3rd degree black belt to 4th degree. This fellow had passed to 3rd degree in 2005 -and spent the entire last year doing 1000's of repetitions of his techniques, as well as changing careers, having his first child, moving and expanding his school, making contributions to his classmates, and doing a number of comprehensive community-based projects.
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