Training & development learning well October blog post round up

October has come and gone with goblins galore.  If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply cast a spell and click below. Here they are – laid out like a well carved pumpkin for your perusing – here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up. You’ll find all the blog posts for […]

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Training & development learning well August blog post round up

Didn’t have time to read August’s posts?  Here they are – laid out like a picnic for your perusing – here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up. You’ll find all the blog posts for the month of August below. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning […]

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‘Engage and develop every young person in the world’ – how about that for an audacious B.H.A.G.

Yesterday I was honoured to co-host AIESEC’s Youth to Business Global Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.  Being on stage in front of 500 delegates from 110 countries was energizing, inspiring and simply all round fantabulous! Wish you could have been there?  Check out their site for recorded videos of plenaries, pictures and more. AIESEC’s B.H.A.G. (big, […]

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Storytelling as a culture builder – how feather dusters & snow globes can help

‘Tell me a story’ are words to make most people’s blood pressure increase.  Just as North American corporate audiences don’t tend to sing or draw in public, we don’t tend to tell stories either. Or do we? The background story We all tell stories and we tell them all the time.  We just may not […]

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‘Don’t fake it – you gotta feel it’ Mr. B. to his PS 22 Chorus at the Oscars

Mr B is the phenomenal teacher and conductor of PS22 Chorus, the choir that’s taken Youtube by storm.  A recent Time Magazine article describes them as having a tendency to skip traditional chorus tunes in favor of exuberant renditions of pop songs. Mr B recently gathered his charges, from Graniteville, New York, a racially diverse […]

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Don’t be a parrot or a human ventriloquist

Ever get the sense you’re listening to a talking head, someone who is is parroting someone else’s words?  Does your boss ever expect you to be a  human ventriloquist with him or her pulling the strings and you voicing their stuff? Welcome to the world of unengaged employees.  Of staff caught in a maze blindly […]

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Learning comes in all shapes, sizes & venues (including family reunions)

Some prefer their learning delivered through stacks of facts.  Facts lined up with their edges squared and precise, like the desks in an old classroom.  Facts stuffed to (over)fill precious time.  Trainers channeling their knowledge into (supposed) empty and (un)willing brains. Others (in the know) realize that learning needs to be coupled with engagement. Learning […]

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