Posts Tagged ‘training’

On Luck, Success, and 10,000 Hours

Imagine this: you are the pilot of a Navy fighter jet. You’re flying in formation when you come under attack from ground-based rockets. The plane nearest you takes a hit and spins into your path, while another rocket screams toward you. And out of the corner of your eye, you see enemy planes approaching. Suddenly, an alarm goes off – something bad just went wrong in your… Continue reading

July 24 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: expertise, learning, luck, malcolm_gladwell, opportunity, training | 25 comments»

Learning Personal Development from Elite Athletes

Working With AthletesOver the last twenty five years I have (amongst other things) worked with many athletes at all levels of development and competition; boxers, aerial skiers, runners, throwers, swimmers, footballers (Australian Rules Football, Soccer and Gridiron), basketballers, netballers, bodybuilders, power-lifters, martial artists and lots more. From complete novices through to experienced Olympians, I have worked with them all. I have been employed by four professional sporting teams as a… Continue reading

March 16 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: athlete, dedication, motivation, personal-development, sport, training | 11 comments»

Your Skill Training Plan for Productivity

I've said it before: the best approach to productivity is a simple one, and that approach is to know what needs doing, and then do what needs doing. I'm not talking systems. How you manage the knowing and doing is another issue. But approaching productivity on this simple level is important. In our effort to become more productive, our strange human minds can sometimes turn it into an almost mystical… Continue reading

January 14 2009 | By Joel | Tagged: goal setting, skills, training | 13 comments»

Sticky Ideas Workshop (Part 6): Stories

We humans are story-telling creatures. On the face of it, telling stories seems absurd, for anything other than entertainment, and yet throughout the various societies of humankind, and throughout all the history we've uncovered in dusty libraries and remote archaeological sites, humans have told stories not just to entertain, but to teach, to build and strengthen social ties, to convey the deepest truths of their personal, spiritual, and religious… Continue reading

September 5 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: Communication, experience, madetostick, stories, teaching, training, writing | 5 comments»

Lumosity – Games to reclaim your brain

Hands up with you want to speed up your thinking, improve your memory for names and numbers, or increase your alertness and awareness? Okay, there is a new site called Lumosity which is a brain fitness program designed to improve your memory, attention and processing speed. Research proves Lumosity trained people has noticeable improvements on their brain performance. The program is useful, and its games and exercises are fun… Continue reading

June 1 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: brain, software, training | 11 comments»

The Trainer named Empathy

In the early days of my management career in the hotel industry, there was a standard practice that seems to have fallen by the wayside, and I can’t imagine why. Well, I take that back, I think I know why. It’s a thing called ‘cost’ when the cost of a lost opportunity isn’t factored into it for the over-riding veto power it has.

Used to be we didn’t waste the lost… Continue reading

May 3 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: customer-service, empathy, Mālama, training | 4 comments»

Training the Trainer: 5 Basics

At Say Leadership Coaching (SLC) we concentrate our efforts on just that which our name implies; coaching the leadership in companies to reach their greater potential. Executives are but one group we work with; there are leaders at every level of a company’s official org chart, and we find that titles can be irrelevant when it comes to discovering leadership talent.Once we discover leadership talent, one of our objectives… Continue reading

February 1 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: leadership, Management, meetings, presentation, process, teaching, technique, trainers, training | 3 comments»

Volunteer Management and Environs

One of the things I spend a lot of time doing at my job in association management is getting volunteers to do things for free. Some people call it “volunteer management,” while other people call it herding cats. Still, the practice warrants some attention.

Before we get started, let me explain why volunteer management is increasingly applicable. More and more, we’re seeing organizations shy away from traditional hierarchies. While this… Continue reading

January 26 2007 | By Nick | Tagged: Management, training, volunteer | 1 comment»

Conditions for Learning

If you want learning to work for you, you must create the conditions in which exploration can take place and discoveries can be made. It's very clear what these are. Without them, all your efforts to learn and grown will be in vain. Continue reading

May 21 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: achievement, breakthrough, competence, creativity, education, learn, learning, motivation, student, study, studying, thinking, train, training | 5 comments»

11 Free OpenOffice.org Training Video

With the release of OpenOffice.org 2.0, this office suite is getting closer to commercial office suite (for instance, Microsoft Office) with new features such as open document formation (odt), better user interface, new database frontend and enhanced PDF support etc. However the only drawback for users is that they are so used to Microsoft Office and it is hard for them to relearn and get use to a new… Continue reading

November 13 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: software, training, tutorial | 1 comment»