Oh, to have had shares in Zoom before this all started. The COVID-19 isolation has turned our world upside down, and the education and training sectors have been forced to adapt faster than most. And adapt they have, using any number of conferencing apps to ensure the wheels of learning keep turning. Conferencing has worked for the most part; kids …
Keeping an Audience engaged
Question: How do you keep your audience engaged when presenting? Christopher Whitnall: Keeping an audience engaged, I don’t think it is as difficult as everyone thinks it is. I think it’s often simple, rather than easy. And therefore, some of the ways that you can do it are, one is to present for the audience. Deliver information that is relevant, …
The Barriers of Communication
What are the barriers to communication? Christopher Whitnall: Communication between two people often seems very simple and very easy. Often it is not those things. So in its simplest form what happens is, somebody has an idea in their mind, they turn it into words, they speak those words and the person who they are intending that message to get …
Influencing Your Team
What’s the best way to influence team members? Kat Thomas: It’s a commonly held misconception that to influence someone, you need to persuade them. Actually, what you need to do is listen to them and understand them first. Once we listen to somebody and once we understand where they’re coming from, only then do we really understand enough about what …
Hacking the Rockstar Attitude
by Kim Singline This week, I received an invitation from our lovely talkforce MD, Chris, to attend a keynote on all things leadership, engagement and performance, delivered by a man named Mark Schulman, here from LA due to his current gig of touring the world with PINK, as her drummer! I must admit, I had my doubts: I wondered how well-informed a muso could …
It’s NAIDOC Week
As many of you may be aware, this week is NAIDOC Week. NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. The week is a great opportunity to participate in …
How Facilitation before EOFY could unlock your company’s edge in 18/19
With only eight weeks left until EOFY, many businesses use the month of May as the time to determine what worked and what didn’t in the 2017/18 financial year. Logically, they do so with a lens towards what opportunities, trends and constraints face their businesses for the 2018/19 year ahead. For talkforce, we often work with clients to facilitate leadership …
talkforce announces Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan for April 2018 – April 2019
One of Australia’s leading corporate learning and development companies, talkforce has been endorsed by Reconciliation Australia, for its Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). Founder and Managing Director of talkforce, Christopher Whitnall said acknowledging Australia’s rich indigenous culture was important for his business and their clients. “We are proud to live in a country with the oldest living cultural history on …
Why is coaching such a valuable tool in the workplace?
Written by talkforce Associate, Diana Cregan I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but there is an increasing presence of external coaches in the workplace. We certainly have. Our coaching business has quadrupled in size over the last 12 months. But why is this? First, let’s agree on what coaching is and what it isn’t. There is a clear distinction between …
Christmas – time to unplug and re-connect
The Managing Director of Google Australia, Jason Pellegrino is recommending his staff disconnect from their devices over the Christmas break and connect with family and friends. The Australasian boss said in a fast-paced world of tremendous change it was crucial to have down time. “Technology is a great enabler, it helps us do amazing things but at the end of …
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