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Over 20 years ago, when I was a senior manager in corporate life, I underwent a great deal of management training. One of the things they taught us was that people have distinct learning styles: Read more…
Over 20 years ago, when I was a senior manager in corporate life, I underwent a great deal of management training. One of the things they taught us was that people have distinct learning styles: Read more…
One of the highlights of Christmas is watching the Royal Institution Christmas lectures. The tradition was started by Michael Faraday in 1825 and the lectures have been shown on TV every year since 1936 (except Read more…
Here’s the recording of this week’s festive webinar for Ideas on Stage. We played three games you can play online that help with: Engagement Revision Team-building For more ideas, please get in touch.
October is traditionally conference season, and I spoke at three online events last month: The Pro Copywriters’ Conference (which would have been in London, UK). CopyCon used a webinar-style platform called Attendify, supported by separate Read more…
Here’s the full interview I did for the Ideas on Stage podcast – thank you to Andrea Pacini (and to Andy Lopata for introducing us).
I remember when I first started at senior school at the age of 11. I looked at all the cool sixth-formers walking down the corridor and thought: “How OLD they all are! I might never Read more…
Thanks to Andy Lopata for crediting me in this podcast about how to give a powerful presentation. He talks about using red and green cards for audience voting – one of the ideas from my Read more…
As a child, I remember seeing my Dad reading the newspaper at the breakfast table and circling any errors he spotted. “My father used to pay me one anna* for any mistake I found,” he Read more…
Here’s an edited recording of the interview I did with Paul du Toit where I demonstrated some of the games speakers can play online to help engage the audience and embed the learning.
I’ve recently worked through Dr Lynda Shaw’s neuroscience programme as part of my ongoing personal development (and to build on my psychology degree and subsequent study into the subject). Reassuringly, it’s clear that there’s a Read more…