by Peter | Feb 28, 2014 | Tools 4 Change |
It was a frosty May morning. The training room was the staff canteen, buried deep in the hangar of a major airlines engineering department. I got there early to set things up. It was a long, narrow room, a kilometer long it seemed – row upon row of industrial...
by Peter | Aug 21, 2013 | Tools 4 Change |
You’ve heard the saying a picture is worth a thousand words. And we tell stories in our training programs so we can illustrate our key messages, so you could say a picture is worth a thousand stories. In this post I want to talk about the value of the visual image,...
by Peter | Jul 18, 2013 | Tools 4 Change |
I was recently on assignment in the Seychelles off the east coast of Africa. It was a fun piece of work in an amazing location. I’ve written a story about the resort here. I worked with the fantastic leadership team of a Five Star Resort, and the flip chart on this...
by Peter | May 9, 2013 | Tools 4 Change, Working With Groups |
Have you ever felt like a group is going around and around a discussion that has nothing to do with your training? Do you sometimes get the feeling they could talk about the topic all day long and still not get anywhere? How to Deal With a Group that Wants to Poo Poo...
by Peter | May 3, 2013 | Training and Presentation Skills, Working With Groups |
They were shady characters. Maybe 20 years old. The way they kept walking through the cafe, waiting out front, then walking back through again, gave us the feeling something suss was going down. In fact, something wasn’t right in this town. It felt lawless, as...