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?...
It’s frustrating when our ideas are not approved, especially when we’ve put weeks into writing and fine–tuning a business presentation – only for our ideas to be brushed aside. But that’s what happens when we’re misunderstood – people cannot see the merits of what we’re trying to present. Because we’re misunderstood, our (often good) ideas...
We’re humbled to be finalists for this year’s HR Vendors of the Year Awards in four categories. They include: Best Digital Learning Provider Best Leadership Development Consultancy Best Response to COVID-19 Best Management Training Provider It’s been quite a year. With COVID-19 upending the training industry, it could no longer be business as usual for...
Listen here: In this podcast episode, we delve into the skills you need as a trainer – to design and run meaningful and engaging Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT). Between episodes 6-9, we’re talking about trainer skills and the three broad categories of: Platform Skills Presentation Skills Holding the Space This is the second episode delving...
Listen here: In this podcast episode, we delve into the skills you need as a trainer – to design and run meaningful and engaging Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT). In the next few episodes, we’ll be talking about trainer skills and the three broad categories of: Platform Skills Presentation Skills Holding the Space But first, let’s...