Here’s a quick tip to beat that very real problem – curly flappy Post-Its in your training presentations and workshops!
If you peel your Post-It upwards, it will bend the gluey bit and when you slap it on your flip chart etc, the bottom will curl upwards.
So nobody will be able to read them, plus they could be easily knocked off.
Instead, hold the bottom of the note – and gently pull down. It’s a little harder to get them off the pad, but it keeps them flat, they’ll go on flat – and stay flat.
More essential presentation / training tips soon.
Philippa Hammond
Learning, Development and Performance Consultant | Trainer | Facilitator
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Trainer tip: Post-Its
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Trainer tales
I’ve had some incredible experiences as a trainer and coach!
A starlight trip into the Yemeni desert by jeep
A stay at a spare palace with gold plated escalators in Brunei
A riverboat trip through the Ukrainian countryside and exploring the glorious gold domed churches of Kyiv
Visits to the underground water cistern and covered bazaar of Istanbul
Delivering workshops in the former German railway headquarters in Cologne in a room called Zeppelin
Eating flaming fruit in a restaurant in a ruined hotel in Gabon
A trainee in Jersey explaining the reason he was late back from lunch – he’d taken off his watch to wade out to check his lobster pots and had lost track of the time
Looking forward to the next adventure
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Pro trainer toolkit
The pro trainer starts with a particular set of skills on top of their subject matter expertise. Do your trainers have …
The support of a Train the Trainer development programme?
Feedback and coaching skills?
A clear understanding of the value of being business-savvy? As in – do they know and understand the business beyond their team, department, grade?
The networking confidence and skill to become respected and trusted throughout the business? Do the people of note know them?
Can they investigate, interview, ask confident and revealing questions, assess the data and present evidence, conclusions and recommendations?
Yes, your trainers need to be able to write and present training events and make a pretty PowerPoint.
But the professional trainer toolkit contains SO much more.
Philippa
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New Website
Quite a momentous day for me – today sees the launch of my new site Trainer Development, dedicated to delivering train the trainer development programmes.
I launched my original business site Speaking Well In Public in 2010, to deliver Confident Public Speaking skills training for leadership, training and business, and that work continues!
Since then, I’ve expanded my business and added Train the Trainer, Employability and Leadership to my Public Speaking development events all in the one place – but now I feel it’s time to focus on each in its own home.
So welcome to Trainer Development as the newest member of my training family.
Please do browse the site and discover how I can help you transform your brilliant subject matter experts into confident effective new trainers and your existing trainers into brand new coaches and mentors for your business.
If you’re looking for public speaking skills for business training for your people, click here.
Shall we talk?
Philippa Hammond
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Networking event
Lovely opportunity yesterday, guesting at a special event for Warwick Business School at the Chapel Royal, Brighton.
WBS is holding a creative leadership development programme for their master’s degree international students at The Shard, London, hosted by Paul Levy.
As part of their UK experience, they’ve visited London theatre, and yesterday visited Brighton and the Royal Pavilion.
Around forty students from China, South Korea, India, Egypt and many other countries gathered for lunch courtesy of the Pavilion Gardens Cafe, and great conversation.
David Sewell, owner of the cafe, spoke about eighty years of continuity as the latest of the three generations to run this iconic Brighton business.
And I was one of a group of Brighton business people invited to circulate, have lunch with them and talk about what we do.
For me as learning, development and performance consultant with an actor background the concept of creative leadership was ideal!
A great opportunity to meet and talk with the leaders of the future, share some of our experience, perspectives and insights.
Philippa Hammond
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Kintsugi
It’s one of my favourite concepts.
Imagine you had a beautiful bowl – and it broke. What could you do?
You could sadly decide it’s useless, that’s it, get rid of the bits and try to forget it ever happened.
You could mend it, very carefully, so none of the breaks and cracks show – and hope nobody ever finds out. Shhhhhhh. Nothing to see here.
Or you could follow the Japanese concept of kintsugi – that the bowl still exists, still beautiful, still useful, and can be brought back to life.
Then you mend it – but instead of using invisible glue, you use gold.
So every crack, every break can still be seen – but the story is there.
It cracked, and it broke, and you put it back together again in a way that shows what happened.
It’s stronger, more valuable and more beautiful than it was before.
This post really wasn’t about pots …
Philippa Hammond
Learning, Development and Performance Consultant | Trainer | Facilitator -
Ikigai
Ikigai – the Japanese concept of how it feels when you’re doing the right thing for the right people at the right time … and it all comes together.
Ikigai is a great place to find yourself.
When you know what you love, what you’re great at, that people need it and you can be paid for it.
That says it all for me in my work life.
Start with working out what YOU know most about, love doing – and can make a difference doing.
Philippa Hammond
Learning, Development and Performance Consultant | Trainer | Facilitator