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"Izzy, what's your view on exercises and role plays during training sessions? I have been running a series of lunchtime workshops and have had significant resistance to 'role playing' from a number of different people. I do believe that, for people to really apply the skills, they need to practise somehow."
I've heard every excuse about why people avoid role plays--from a group of senior IBM executives who spoke of their "Greenock" experience, clearly something very traumatic--to comments like "but it's not real life" or "that wouldn't happen to us.... "
I discovered a phrase a few years back--'skills practise'--and it's brilliant. Of course it is a form of …
Well, here I am, almost at the end of my coaching with Sean Weafer.
My last face-to-face meeting with the Rebel in a Business Suit was, in fact, my last face-to-face meeting with him (very nearly)--we have a telephone session coming up to check that everything's going to plan and then the final wrap-up meeting in the flesh--and, damn it all, in a strange kind of way I'm going to miss him.
Over the past few months, Sean has become a comforting figure in the background--not someone you would plague with irrelevant phone calls but there if things really do go horribly wrong, to provide words of advice and encouragement. For me, he's become a bit like the teacher …
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The language used by learning and development professionals came under the spotlight recently, when Barry Johnson asked Digest members for
their views on the words that should be used to describe people who undergo training.
He said: "Many years ago, when joined a very large corporation as a site training manager, I was using the word 'delegates' to describe people attending courses. I notice this is common practice in the responses to various discussions.
"The corporate training and development director asked me whether I really wanted 'delegates' or 'participants'. I must admit that had, on occasions, used the word attendees'.
"Delegate: a person …