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Acoustic guitar and flexible training design

Ally shares a remarkable acoustic guitar performance that inspired insights into training design and delivery. Guitarist Andy McKee, has had over 20 million views on YouTube and his performance of “Drifting” inspired Ally to reflect on ways that techniques and practices from one are can be applied to another.

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Perishable skills and use by dates

this is NOT Paul - his kids always have the remote!

While mindlessly flicking through the TV channels the other night Paul stumbled upon a documentary on about the American Airborne Division and heard the expression “perishable skill” – that got his attention…

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How to make sure you don’t get invited back

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This weeks guest post is from Simon Bostock. He’s has been helping people and organisations to learn for twenty years. His main interests are in ‘experiential’ learning through play, projects and Knowledge Management.

My uncle can barely use a computer. He has an old and very-expensive-at-the-time computer which he uses to play golf. But he taught [...]

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When the brain goes “off piste”

Richard Potts is director of the Human Origins Programme at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History where he studies how humans evolved over millions of years to be the dominant species on the earth.  The first thing this tells us is that, to fit that lot in, he may have the largest business [...]

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Beyond unconsciously competent Pt.2: keep in the flow

In the Beyond unconsciously competent Pt.1: Now what? we looked at “Flow” taken from the book “Flow – The psychology of optimal experience” written by Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and discussed how it could be applied in the training world.

In this second and final part we will look at what his model means in relation to [...]

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