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Comment on ROI and double standards by Gavin Meikle

Gavin Meikle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:01:46 +0000

Thanks for sharing Paul. Your arguments are sound and sensible. I remember hearing someone on the radio say “Imagine you turned on the news and heard the England Manager being interviewed. He said that he was stopping the team training untill the results improved. People would be up in arms about it, calling the manager crazy, stupid and short sighted.” But what do we say about managers who do the same thing today in business? Its a funny old world! Keep blogging

Comment on Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us by TNM Coaching

TNM Coaching — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:45:09 +0000

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Comment on ROI and double standards by Linda Williams

Linda Williams — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:53:03 +0000

ROI and double standards – http://www.brainfriendlytrainer.com/reflect/roi-and-double-standards

Comment on Music: getting the level right by Paul Zorovich

Paul Zorovich — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:32:49 +0000

I would never play music in the classroom unless it was a music course. I absolutely believe that music is not something that should be “in the background” but is rather something that should be focused on and paid attention to. I’ve even left restaurants that play music because it distracts from the food (and isn’t that really why we’re in a restaurant? the food?). Granted, as a trained musician I may be coming at this from a slightly different angle than some, but don’t you think it’s disrespectful to the music and to the task at hand to ask class participants to try to focus on two things at once?

Comment on ROI and double standards by Jooli Atkins

Jooli Atkins — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:34:42 +0000

Paul

Thanks for your passion on this one. I winds me up no end and outlining the double standards in organisations in this way is really helpful. Best guess is better than no attempt to provide return at all and Phillips ROI calculations can really help to formulate a reasonable return estimate.

You mentioned that most trainers evaluate at Kirkpatrick Level 1 and here Level 4 but I believe that the most important Kirkpatrick Level is 3 – transfer into the workplace because if we don’t evaluate that we can’t do the Level 4 evaluation at all, let alone with any reliability.

Thanks again for highlighting these double standards – let’s keep working to change that.

Jooli Atkins

Comment on 10 ways to split big groups into small groups or pairs by Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:35:07 +0000

Are we not just in danger of wasting training time with things like this when it is far far easier just to number people off?

Fair enough if there was a learning point to the exercises – but in many (most actually) I can not see a learning point?

As we get pushed to deliver more in less time – time itself becomes very important!

Andrew

Comment on 10 ways to split big groups into small groups or pairs by Mark Gilroy

Mark Gilroy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:03:32 +0000

10 ways to split big groups into small groups or pairs http://bit.ly/9KgwCb (via @bftrainer)

Comment on Congruence – What is that about? by TNM Coaching

TNM Coaching — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:45:02 +0000

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Comment on Kirkpartick re-writes Level 1 evaluation by emma hiscox

emma hiscox — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:38:40 +0000

fab site really good topics and links am currently doing ctp and its fab to insert items and rationale behind my actions!
it makes sense in alot of places and will be a frequent user, a section on recomended titels would be good or if anyone knows of local events happening a post for that would be really neat.

emma

Comment on 3 ways the brain creates meaning (video by Tom Wujec) by Martin Haworth

Martin Haworth — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:40:02 +0000

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Comment on 10 ways to split big groups into small groups or pairs by Ally

Ally — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:16:21 +0000

That is a fab idea Deb!

I love this

An alternative – not quite so affirming, may be to use words associated with the subject matter. For example, in a customer service course, you may use questioning, listening, empathy etc…

Comment on Podcast: Interview with Stella Collins Part 1 by Evaluation is NOT hard… | Brain Friendly Trainer

Evaluation is NOT hard… | Brain Friendly Trainer — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:13:50 +0000

[...] A couple of weeks ago Ally and I spent an extremely enjoyable day with the Brain Friendly Learning Group, a UK networking group for brain friendly trainers set up by Stella Collins. [...]

Comment on 10 ways to split big groups into small groups or pairs by Deb Herbert

Deb Herbert — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:57:15 +0000

A positive variation on the 1-2-3 method, and just as quick and simple, is telling them they are ‘fantastic’, ‘brilliant’ or ‘wonderful’. If you want more groups just add additional positive adjectives. It makes me and them smile, and feel positive, when they are looking for the ‘wonderful’ people etc.!

Comment on 10 ways to split big groups into small groups or pairs by Tony Latimer, MCC

Tony Latimer, MCC — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:43:42 +0000

10 ways to split big groups into small groups or pairs – http://bit.ly/d5kKrw

Comment on 10 ways to split big groups into small groups or pairs by Sandy Rank

Sandy Rank — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:12:02 +0000

RT @pdub123: 10 ways to split big groups into small groups or pairs from Brain Friendly Trainer- http://bit.ly/cBtx6W