Being a concert pianist and a corporate trainer might seem like contrasting melodies. Yet, for Marianne Vincent, People Potential’s Director of Training Quality, these two seemingly disparate fields came together into a unique arrangement – not unlike the lines in a fugue by Bach – and became the bedrock of People Potential’s transformative skill-building methodology....
This is a rewritten excerpt taken from Regina Morris’s sharing at People Potential’s regular Community of Practice, a weekly meet-up of subject matter experts, trainers, facilitators, and instructional design practitioners who come together to improve themselves. It’s part of People Potential’s commitment to our clients. Regina is People Potential’s senior business presentations specialist. — Over...
Tl;DR: As we return to pre-pandemic norms, organisations are beginning to transition from virtual to face-to-face training – often with the assumption that the latter is always better. But there are various situations where a well-designed virtual training programme might be the better choice. From our experience running both virtual and face-to-face training, we’ve discovered...
You might want to devise a leadership programme that resonates with your lower-level managers up to your CEO. Or you could be looking to unleash a work management system that you want warehousing, engineering, and finance to adopt. Or you’d like to encourage a collaborative framework to bring disparate teams to work together from far-flung...
Not all people are wide-eyed, starry-eyed, eagle-eyed people of passion and purpose. As an HR or L&D professional, our mission at work (and often in life) is to empower people with the knowledge and skills that they need to thrive. And a great way to empower people is through nurture and encouragement. You and I,...
Our Presentations Alive!™ programme doesn’t just improve people’s business presentation skills. Within Presentations Alive! there’s a hidden second programme. When we designed Presentations Alive!, we did so knowing that the most important skills are also the most difficult to teach – skills like confidence and self-worth. So, we stealthily included these elements into an innocent-sounding...
Listen here: It’s an uncomfortable and alien world. Training in the virtual space is a vastly different experience from training face-to-face. How do you make people feel comfortable online? How do you build rapport one-on-one when everyone is listening in on Zoom? How do you read the room and respond to how everyone is feeling?...
The world stopped, the streets emptied, and the offices lay vacant. Within the context of a post-apocalyptic setting where people are separated by sheets of plastic and glass, forced to communicate through apps and made to compete with their meowing cats and their screeching children, what is a HR department to do to keep their...
Thank you. It was a humbling experience to be awarded three awards at last night’s HR Vendors of the Year 2021 awards. We won silver for Best Management Training Provider, silver for Best Leadership Development Provider, and bronze for Best COVID-19 Response. These last couple of years have been a period of significant growth for...
Listen here: In this episode, we delve into the presentation skills that trainers need to master – so that they can conduct training that’s (often) better than face-to-face training. Do you look at the camera or the screen? Do you need videos turned on? How about body language and voice projection? Should trainers sit or stand?...