Tag Archives: state

Table toys R you

I’ve been involved in a great discussion on LinkedIn today started by Susan Landay, President at Trainers Warehouse about the use of toys in the training room
What surprised me was the huge variation in their use. Here are some of the nuggets:
Mike Willoughby  Customer Experience Solutions at Competitive Advantage said:

I usually use them as rewards, [...]

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Bleeding ears, nervousness and a paddling duck

In this third installment of music week, Paul shares his experience of stage fright before performing at the Marquee club in London and reflects on the nervousness we sometimes feel in the training room.

He explains a great way of managing our state through “centering”.

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Music: getting the level right

To kick off ‘music week’, Paul (rather strangely) encourages us to turn the volume down!

Many years ago I was recording in a studio in Bournemouth used by Andy Summers (the guitarist in the Police) and was being allowed to play with the controls on the mixing desk.

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Watch out for that tree! or You get what you focus on

A few years ago I had the pleasure of spending an intimate weekend with the American motivational guru Tony Robbins (I say intimate…… it was me and 10,000 others!)
One of the things that I recall from that weekend was Tony talking about where we place our focus.

Here is my take on it.
If you have ever [...]

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One, two, three times embedded

We love quizzes.
We use them all over the place but in today’s slightly shorter post I wanted to share one of our favourites because it works on so many levels.
We know that quizzes are a great way to embed learning but why stop at one way when you could get three ways in one quiz?

Here’s [...]

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