Tag Archives: NLP

When the brain goes off piste part 2

By Paul | Published: October 16, 2009
This is the 2nd post exploring two powerful features of the human brain. Despite not knowing the answers, Paul expands on the questions: “When is it OK for the trainer to fill in gaps in the learner’s current knowledge” and “Can you train in a subject you know nothing about”?
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The ballet of state management

By Paul | Published: August 25, 2009
One of the pillars of Brain Friendly Learning is “State Management” As Kim Hare, Managing Director of Kaizen Training says in her book The Trainer's Toolkit: Bringing Brain-friendly Learning to Life “State is everything (well almost)”  But what exactly is she talking about? Exforsys offers us the following: State is a combination of the internal representations of the mind [...]
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How to handle the questions we hate

By Paul | Published: August 17, 2009
Has this ever happened to you…..? You are running a course, everything is bounding along very smoothly, you get to a point and ask “Has anyone got any questions?” ……….. and you get one. Its so “left field” that for a moment you are frozen. For example (and this did happen to me once)  “Why are you asking [...]
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