Archive for June, 2010
Audio Seminars
You’ll find a range of audio seminars on this site that you can easily listen to at your desk. They cover the topics within my areas of expertise – leadership, communication, new media and corporate learning.
Intelligent Time Management
Traditional time management classes usually fail because they’re based on principles suited for yesterday. A, B and C lists worked OK yesterday in an era when life was predictable and we had a degree of control over our lives. Today we need to be more intelligent about getting work done.
How to Build a Podcast Studio
It’s easy to put together everything you need to make podcasts. In this article we’ll show you how to build a podcast studio without wasting money or leaving out the necessary equipment.
How to Record Location Interviews for Your Podcast
Location interviews are powerful ways to take your listener to the source of the story. Taking your microphone with you is like taking your listener to share in the powerful voices of real stories far away.
How to Present a Geat Sounding Podcast
How do you present a great sounding podcast? You want your voice to sound warm but authoritative. And credible. Plus you want to create excitement and interest in the way you present. Here are some techniques to create vocal presence in your podcast.
How to Produce Phenomenal Podcasts
Creating phenomenal podcasts takes more effort than just plugging a microphone into a computer and talking. It takes careful planning and strategy, good production and sound admin.
Don’t Waste Your Money on Training
Millions of dollars are wasted on training every year. That’s because people invest in the wrong training courses or people delivering the course. Training must be seen as an investment. That means checking out the trainer to see they can deliver what your organization needs.
Carve Out Some Space & Quiet
Life seems just too busy to become an ideas factory. Deadlines, kids, community associations all zap that little bit extra brain energy from us. So what’s the solution? Quite simply, take a walk in the park. In this article we offer a few other tips to create space in your brain to generate ideas.
Generating Ideas: Travel
If you’re stuck for ideas, buy a plane ticket and head for the highways. Travel is great for both sensory and intellectual stimulation. It can also be a lot of fun. It can open your door to new ideas and perspectives that you can synthesize or evolve into solutions for your own work or life.
Catching Your Ideas
Once you’re in the creative flow, you’ll discover that your brain is literally popping with new ideas. That’s all good when you’re at your office but what about those moments when you’re not? Like in an airport, on a train or walking in the park? Many people find they dream big but then forget their ideas. It doesn’t have to be so.