Training & development learning well July blog post round up

Voila – here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up. You’ll find all the blog posts for the month of July below. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development or just get your big toe […]

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Don’t Perform in an Exit! A true story from a professional improv comedian

Did you know that Rock.Paper.Scissors Inc. is both a training and entertainment company?  The latest Rock.Paper.Scissors Inc. e-newsletter just hit the stands, err inbox.  Read the full issue here or sign up to receive your free monthly copy here. In this issue Diana Frances, VP of Rock.Paper.Scissors Inc. & Director of Entertainment, pulls back the […]

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Training & development learning well June blog post round up

Voila – here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up. You’ll find all the blog posts for the month of June below. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development or just get your big toe […]

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Training & development learning well May blog post round up

This is the first Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up.  You’ll find all the blog posts for the month of May below. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip.  Shower yourself in training & development or just get your big toe […]

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Learning Perspective – Paper vrs Rock

Learning perspective. In my dictionary that’s what we’re all about as training and development specialists. In my dictionary that means creating a culture in both our training and development content and delivery that supports: …taking a second look …finding a new outlook …re-examining perspectives, even (especially) those perspectives we’ve held for a lifetime. ‘nuf said. […]

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He ain’t heavy, he’s my (misinformed) brother – how a little information can go a wrong way

Warning: this post is a little graphic.  I decided to run it because I originally received the joke from my mum-in-law. I figured if she found it funny you may too. Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and preceded to the checkout counter. The man at […]

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How you teach is how you do everything – part 1: How not to suck on fumes

‘How you teach is how you do everything’ is the title of a recent blog post written by Jen Louden and Michele Lisenbury Christensen.  I started to read it with skepticism as I don’t usually find a lot of great writing about what it really means to be a teacher – trainer – leaning and […]

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Not paying attention as a trainer can make you take an unwanted bath

I once took a university course, early Friday mornings at 8:30 am, with only 3 others in the class.  There was another painful aspect to it other than the early hour.  The professor lectured from notes so old they were yellowed.  Plus his monotonous tone matched the static nature of his notes. Mother of mertle […]

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Great trainers are great adapters

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“We are born with the capacity to hear, we must learn to listen” Miha Pogacnik

His arm flew, directing the bow in a wild and frenetic dance with the strings, while his chin hung onto the base of the violin for dear life.  His hair looked like a bowl of fine spaghetti flying off in one direction, only to be pulled back in another with the rhythmic sway of his […]

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