Icebreakers & energisers

I ran a group mentoring session yesterday with 10 people who didn’t (yet) know each other. We started with pinning where we are on a Padlet map, renaming ourselves to add the number of years’ Read more…

I’m currently preparing an interactive keynote for PSA South East where I’ll demonstrate 30 things you can do on Zoom to engage your audience and embed the learning. This means, if you host weekly meetings, 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…

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…

Thanks to Rosemary Williams for sending this idea (which will be great when we’re allowed out again): A teacher brought balloons to school and asked the children to blow them all up and then each Read more…