No Tyre Kickers!

Science wasn’t my best subject.  So, maybe that’s why one of Hugh MacLeod’s (my hero) cartoons on the back of business cards really encapsulates how I feel about twice every week.  And, boy was this week one of them. As an employee, I got sick of incompetence.  I got sick of placing myself in departments and organisations where competency was a hazy illusion.  Training is...

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The Training Effect Strikes Back

A few weeks ago I mentioned brain training games and questioned whether they’re all the marketeers make them out to be.  I suggested a range of activities that help out in keeping the brain young and healthy.  But there’s one I forgot – juggling! It seems that juggling increases brain power.  Scientists from Oxford University have concluded that performing complex tasks like...

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The Training Effect

Eddie Izzard, what a guy – 43 marathons in 51 days!  Just one question.  HOW?  He’s not naturally uber-fit.  He only put in five weeks of preparation.  And, with each marathon, his time actually decreased.  So, again I say, how did he manage it? Sports scientist put it down to something called the training effect.  I was narked that, as a trainer, I’d never heard of this...

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The True Cost of Training

Training is like an iceberg.  Only one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg appears visible above the water. So it is with a training event.  The actual bit that people see, the training day itself, is only a very small part of the whole.  Lurking beyond the vision of participants and attendees lies the vast bulk of time the trainer has expended in creating the event.  There are meetings with...

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