The power of face-to-face learning
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 …
SBOs, SBLs and AHRI
Recently our Melbourne based talkforce team partnered with AHRI in the Gippsland region to deliver a Strengths-Based Organisations (SBO) and Strengths-Based Leadership (SBL) workshop. With over 50 business leaders and HR professionals from throughout the Gippsland region attending, the conversation was dynamic and insightful. Kim Singline, a talkforce associate and practising psychologist, set up the session by dissecting the generational …
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, …
How do Leaders Motivate Teams?
How do Leaders motivate Teams? Christopher Whitnall: There’s a number of ways in which a leader can motivate their team. One of the ways is that they need to understand what motivates the people in the team: That some people are driven by intrinsic thinks. That is, they are driven by doing a good job or setting their own standards. …
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 …