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3 things children can teach us about managing change

Change can be traumatic. Often we feel unable to cope and sometimes we may deny the need for it and seek to hold onto the past.
A photo taken during a family holiday causes Ally to reflect on how comfortable children are with change and draws three lessons from his daughters ability to deal with change in a natural, stress free way.

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A design for design Part 2

In the final instalment, Paul explains how the subject of the training is like The Olympic Games. This conclusion then influences the content sequencing and ensures that the learning is layered by starting with the common basics and layers complexity as new understanding is gained.

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Great Learning State = Focus + Physiology

The state of our learners is crucial to the quality of their learning and their state can be profoundly influenced by our state so this is as important for them as it is for us.

In this post, Paul explores how Focus and Physiology can enhance learning and improve the experience for both learner and trainer.

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10 fantastic quotes about UNlearning

Over Christmas I spent some time trawling the interweb for interesting blogs, thoughts and ideas and I came across these.
I really love the idea of unlearning that which isn’t useful any more or is unsupported or is no longer relevent in todays world.
Ally and I have already posted some “debunking” posts and I guess these [...]

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Podcast: Interview with Stella Collins Pt2

In this second part of our interview with Stella Collins, director and consultant at Stellar Learning and co-founder of Brain in Business, Stella and Ally discuss Stella’s influences, how pirates got her into training and ways to enliven ‘dry’ subject matter.

Click the green ‘play’ icon to listen now:

In Part One of our interview, Stella and [...]

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