Building Effective Teams
Whether you are studying or working, you will inevitably come across teamwork in one form or another. This blog introduces you to the five stages of team development, how to cultivate the right mindset and some practical strategies for team development.
5 Top Strategies for Prioritizing Tasks
Whatever profession we are in, we need to manage multiple responsibility simultaneously as well ensuring all tasks are completed to a high standard on time. How can we know which task needs to be finished first? How are the tasks integrated with each other? How can we know which task should be done first?
Our blog on prioritizing tasks looks at some tips and tools we can use in order to be effective and efficient with completing all of our tasks.
A Teacher’s Guide to Mastering Time Management
If you have ever taught a class, regardless of the age or the subject one difficulty that often crops up is that we ‘never have enough time.’ Unforeseen situations and issues may arise, leading us to be unable to meet all of our lesson objectives.
This blog aims at helping teachers with some key time management issues, looking at some frequent issues that can occur as well as possible solutions to these issues.
Development of Motor Skills For Young Learners
The development of motor skills is one of the most important part of a young child’s development age. Unfortunately, it is often overlooked when it comes to classroom activities.
Our blog provides a clear breakdown on what the two motor skills are, as well as some useful tips and strategies to further develop both fine and gross motor skills in a classroom environment or a home environment.
6 Key Teacher Pre-Class Preparation
Before even stepping foot in the classroom, a teacher will have to do some key preparation in order to have a successful class.
We take a look at 6 key teacher pre-class preparation, looking at why each one is important and how each will benefit a teacher when he or she finally teaches the class. All 6 pre-class preparation advice transcends to all type of lessons, abilities and age.
5 Effective Training Warm Ups
The beginning of any training will always set the tone for the trainees. One of the most important part is the warm up at the beginning of a training. Many training may straight go into it, but an effective and engaging warm up will engage and motivate trainees to the training.
Our blog will give 5 adaptive and effective warm ups that can be used in most training sessions!
Leadership Vs Management
A leader and a manager often gets confused to as being the same thing. Whilst some overlap will occur and can easily be displayed in a venn diagram, there are also some big differences between the two that needs to be known.
This blog will look at an introduction of the differences between leadership and management, as well as analyzing if they are both needed in a company and why!
The Art of Communication
Communication is the oil for the machinery. It is frequently spoken about but rarely looked upon. One common frustration from employees is that ‘communication could be better’. This blog is a starter guide to help improve your communication skills, whether using it in a professional or personal setting!
Setting Your OKRs
Goals are often set and forgotten, or set but not aligned with others in the department, or set but then after completion, nothing happens. We look at why so many fortune 500 companies turn to OKR when making their goals, as well as the benefits of OKR!
Conflict Management: How to Manage Workplace Conflict
Conflict, both positive and negative, is something that happens in every workplace. Many managers or companies themselves find it difficult to deal with conflict and may actively avoid it, thus halting progress and causing workplace de-motivation and tension.
We look at what conflict is, why it can be beneficial to the workplace and how to manage workplace conflict!
Project Management 101
Implementing a project can be a nightmare for any business, big or small. Common problems seems to re-occur with similar projects, with the cost or time normally escalating, or issues with quality.
Our blog will help anyone getting started or would like more detail on what is project management, as well as how to be an effective project manager!
Active Learning: Why it Matters & What Can You Do
How can we make our learners engaged in the learning process, as well as able to understand, process and evaluate what they have learnt? The answer is the process of active learning!
Our blog looks at what is and why use active learning, some active learning strategies all instructors can use and some challenges to active learning.
Change Management: Dealing with Change
Implementing successful change in the organization can be one of the hardest things for companies to do, but it is one of, if not the most important thing!
Failure to be aware of the changing environment, how to implement successfully or reinforcing the change can lead to the downfall of the company. This blog covers what change management is, resistance and what companies can do to overcome these!
Making & Delivering Presentations
Planning a training session? The first part of any training session is to be aware of the reasoning of why you are doing the training. What is the need and purpose of the training? What are the goals the training is looking to meet?
Planning a Training Session: Training Purpose
Planning a training session? The first part of any training session is to be aware of the reasoning of why you are doing the training. What is the need and purpose of the training? What are the goals the training is looking to meet?
Motivation: What Can You Do?
What gets you up in the morning? Why do you decide to work where you work? Why did you decide the career path that you are following? The answers to all of these are what motivates you to do what you do!
Mission, Vision & Values
If you are looking to start a company, the best place to start is knowing your mission, vision and values. What are your principles? Why do you exist? What’s the reasoning for your business?