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....
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?...
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?...
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...
When you want to run engaging and meaningful online training, the digital tools you use as a trainer can make your life a lot more pleasant. After plenty of trial and error, we’ve found a few online accessory apps that we’d wholeheartedly recommend to our fellow trainers. Listen to this podcast to learn more about...
Upper management was unconvinced, “Why spend so much on training when we can’t see the results?” they asked Jane and her colleagues from the L&D department. It was a question that they couldn’t answer with certainty. Their training budgets were in jeopardy. Despite all the good classroom experiences during training, the results are often suspect....