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Electrical plugs and sockets

Electrical plugs and sockets

This year has been good as I travelled to many countries and places for business. I liked places, people, food, almost every thing including flies and mosquitoes. However, I disliked one thing and that is an ugly universal plug adapter for plugging in my laptop, mobile to charge. Why can’t they keep same shaped plugs in each country? What advantage do they get by changing the plug types and…

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I do not know

I do not know

Writing something for the sake of writing is not my idea but sometimes that is what I do and probably this writing comes in that category.

Looking back in the seventies when I first started writing, I could only write poems. Kept writing in a diary. Kept the diary for long, and one day I threw the whole diary into dustbin, why?

I do not know.

Well, creativity is not my strong point, I believe. So…

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Use Written Testimonials As A Marketing Tool For Your Training Organisation

Use Written Testimonials As A Marketing Tool For Your Training Organisation

If you are in Australia and own a Registered Training Organisation (RTO), you are in a difficult business. Your hands and legs are tied owing to stringent government rules and you are expected to remain afloat as a business.

The government controls who you can enrol, what marketing message you can or cannot send, what marketing intermediaries you can use, what price will be paid to you for your…

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How to use Newsletters to grow students’ number in your Registered Training Organisation (RTO)?

How to use Newsletters to grow students’ number in your Registered Training Organisation (RTO)?

Marketing by Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) in Australia is highly regulated. There are clear directions towards content, solicitation of business, and use of intermediaries. While the intention is for greater consumer protection, the downside is that as an RTO you still need to get sustainable number of students consistently without being seen as soliciting and offering incentives.

Ne…

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Conducting a training need analysis

Conducting a training need analysis

Say, you are a budding training and development consultant and a client asks you to come into their organisation and conduct training of their few staff members. They want you to assess the kind of training they need and conduct training sessions at their workplace. What would you do? Here is my take.

Conduct a training need analysis. Do this by looking at what they are supposed to do?

You can…

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When is training not appropriate?

When is training not appropriate?

There is a general view that when there are problems within an organisation, the first answer is to offer training to staff. When staff members are bickering and fighting, the first thing we think of is to offer training in anger management or conflict resolution. We offer skills training when a new process or tool is introduced in the business, .

There is no doubt that when the training focus…

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How to be assertive?

How to be assertive?

Is it difficult for you to assert yourself out of fear of what may happen? Are you afraid the other person may become angry and yell at you? Your fear is real and not imaginary. It can happen that the other person becomes angry. It is a different matter that usually the person who does become angry is either a bully or just masking the person they really are; another scared, little mouse who…

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