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Your Guide to Facilitating Group Decisions
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As a trainer, you play a major role in helping your participants overcome significant challenges in their professional lives. There are situations where you may have to help your trainees make difficult decisions in their organization. Strong decision-making skills is an invaluable soft skill that can be beneficial in any role. This blog post discusses how to facilitate decisions that must be made in a group.
9 Tips for Making Your Training Workshops Fun for Increased Retention and Engagement
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Corporate training is a part of many employee’s careers. As a trainer, standing in front of a group of learners to train them may be intimidating. However, ensuring that you are delivering effective training workshops is crucial to promoting change and improvements in an organization. Finding ways to connect with your trainees and increase their engagement can help you deliver interactive workshops. Making your training fun can make the content you are teaching more memorable, making your sessions worthwhile to you and your learners. 1. Know Your Audience What does “know your audience” mean in the context of delivering a...
Nail Your Next Presentation with Our Top Ten Public Speaking Tips and Tricks
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Does the idea of public speaking make your skin crawl and your heart race? If this sounds familiar, you are not alone.
Glossophobia, or the fear of public speaking, affects approximately 75 percent of adults. The statistic is staggering when you consider how many jobs require public speaking skills, whether it’s to pitch a new idea, interact with the media/stakeholders, or even running an internal meeting.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. With a little preparation, the ability to deliver a great presentation can be game changing for your professional development and organization as a whole.
Effectively deliver your key messages and even influence behavior with our public speaking tips and tricks.
5 Ways to Achieve Work-Life Balance for Happier and Healthier Employees
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We all take on different roles in our personal and professional lives. What titles do you take on in your everyday life, and how do we balance it all? The key is to achieve work-life balance. Here are some strategies that have worked for us at CTM and other companies to help employees achieve work-life balance.
Your Guide to Building High-Performance Teams in the Workplace
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A strong team in the workplace can get things done quicker, boost morale, and motivate employees. On the other side of this, a poorly built team can not only slow things down, it can also lower productivity, damage internal relationships, and negatively impact bottom-line results. Teamwork training can reap many benefits for your staff. Working in a team at one point or another is unavoidable in a corporate setting, so teamwork training will always be a worthy investment. Whether it is a designated task force with a specific project or goal in mind, or simply keeping open communication so everyone in your staff is on the same page.
So how can you ensure your teams are performing well? Below is our guide to building high-performance teams in the workplace.