What’s the difference between Mentoring and Coaching? Between Teaching and Training? How can we, as coaches, trainers, educators and mentors best serve those that we are helping? That’s one of the issues with John Maxwell’s Servant Leadership, of course (which I’ll address in a future Tuesday Training post) But its also something I’ve been…
Recently, I was asked to present a speech at Ignite Brisbane and so I chose to discuss the two ways we learn – and the two ways we teach. Ignite presentations, by the way, are where you give a presentation that lasts _exactly_ five minutes – and which is accompanied by 20 PowerPoint slides each…
To create a podcast, the most important things are not physical … they are ideas, concepts, and value. However, assuming you DO have the ideas, etc, then you need some tech to create a podcast. 1) Microphone. This can be as simple as the mic on your smartphone, or the microphone built into your laptop…
As part of a tutorial for students in the Online Journalism subject that I teach (KJB222 at Queensland University of Technology) we were discussing ‘Listicles’ this week … brief stories that are essentially a short list of related ‘facts’ that make a semi-coherent story. I asked them for example of a topic they could use…
Here at CairnsCommunications, we are proud to join with other advertising and marketing professionals in joining the ‘Say No To No’ campaign. We have no objections to working for religious organisations (and have done work for some in the past), but on THIS issue, a line has to be drawn. As a straight couple, no-one…
Background: I’m currently a member of four Toastmasters clubs, having rejoined Toastmasters in Brisbane, Australia, about two years ago. I was also a member of multiple other clubs in my previous Toastmasters membership, in the 1980s. But all those clubs, and three of my existing clubs, are ‘traditional’ clubs – in the sense that they…
This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. Today’s a dark and foreboding Stonehenge. The stone structure is one of the most famous sights in England, has prompted entire belief-structures based on its supposed ancient wisdom and astronomical expertise. But unfortunately, its…
This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. Today, a serendipitous structure captured through a car window. We should never have seen this bridge … it wasn’t on our proposed route from Granby Colorado to Taos, New Mexico. But just after we had gone…
This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. For today, it’s London, looking like a throwback to the early days of Doctor Who. One of my most enduring memories as a kid was seeing the Daleks rolling across Westminster Bridge .. and I…
This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. Today, its Mazatlan-Moggie! Why a picture of a cat? Because there aren’t enough cat pictures on the Internet! Seriously, though, this gorgeous grey mackerel tabby was sunning herself on a driveway in Mazatlan as we walked past…
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