Workshop Wednesday – Learn by Osmosis, Teach like Osiris
“.. if people are surrounded by a greater concentration of something (for example, knowledge – or prejudice ) then it passes into them as if by osmosis …”
Workshop Wednesday: The Power of Three
“… simply repeating something doesn’t make it the truth (otherwise the Internet would be an entirely different place!) – but what he wrote contains a kernel of wisdom…”
Tuesday Training – What’s in YOUR Trainer’s Toolkit (Part III)?
Over the past couple of weeks we have been looking at Trainer’s Toolkits and what’s in them – and I asked some of my Toastmasters colleagues what tools they consider essential. Here’s a suggestion from one member, based in Mexico. For ice-breaker exercises, divide participants up into three or four groups, using something like “preferred…
Wed Workshop: ‘Intrinsic’ motivators
Money may seem like the main motivator for many people – but what if it’s not? What if there are other ‘first-order’ motivators that we ignore at our peril? I’ve just come from a meeting where a speaker pointed out that extrinsic motivators like money, fame, and praise are all important – but beyond a certain point,…
Monday Media – Can anything save ‘dinosaur media’?
Can the Australian government’s proposed new media laws save troubled newspapers and other legacy media outlets? Or is that the wrong question to be asking? It’s now two weeks since the government confirmed plans to significantly change media ownership laws, which could prompt a whole swag of mergers and acquisitions as old-school news organisations battle…
Wed Workshop – 80:20 vision
In my Thursday Thoughts post two weeks ago, I wrote about ‘draining the swamp’ – or dealing with the big picture, and not getting bogged down in the minutiae. And that led one reader to point me to a really useful ‘life hack’ page about the 80:20 rule. The 80:20 rule, as Steve Young points out, is…
Monday Media – And just like Magic, no more 2CH
It’s the worst-kept secret in Australian radio: Easy 2CH is no more. From today, the station has adopted the ‘Magic’ moniker – and, in general, the Magic format. It’s still calling itself Magic 2CH in Breakfast – but certainly by 2pm, it had adopted the Magic 1170 callsign – bringing it into line with the branding…
Wed Workshop – Best Laid Schemes …
You may have noticed that this week’s Wed Workshop’ is actually being posted on a Sunday (Australian time). That’s because, as the poet said, “The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley….” I am, as I’ve mentioned, an occasional ‘enrichment lecturer’ on cruise ships – and in recent weeks I’ve been on…
Thursday thoughts: Draining the swamp
I think it was a 1986 Apple commercial that first introduced me the concept, but it’s a metaphor that has stuck with me for three decades since then: “It is difficult to remember, when you are up to your neck in alligators, that you originally set out to drain the swamp!” I find that I spend…
Wed Workshop – Dot points = dead message
I am, this week, on a cruise ship sailing around the South Pacific. I say that not to make you jealous – although I AM ON A SOUTH PACIFIC CRUISE! – but to tell you why I am on that ship. I’m what’s called an ‘enrichment speaker’ .. In return for a ‘free’ cruise for…
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