What to do if a participant wants to skip out of the online training session because the technology does not behave like it should? This is exactly what happened to me recently at a digital workshop. An offline training had been moved to the Internet. While most of the participants were curious about the digital [...]
The second wave is coming. Once again we are faced with the situation that on-site trainings are cancelled and personal coaching sessions are no longer booked. Contacts to customers are lost - and there is no end in sight. These are hard times for all those who offer trainings or coaching. But the experience of [...]
As a coach it is now about existence. No meetings and no group meetings in closed rooms - that means no workshops and trainings. And therefore no income. A frightening, existence-threatening situation for many coaches and trainers. Is it? New ways are needed. One way that seems to me to be very feasible and successful [...]
The COVID-19 crisis has turned the way of working upside down. Home office instead of open-plan office, couch instead of ergonomic office chair, cosy family breakfast instead of daily commuter traffic jam. We coaches and trainers are also strongly affected: How can one conduct a training, a workshop without meeting other participants in a suitable [...]
Myth: Brainstorming is outdated and slows down ideas in a team Again and again this myth is haunting the net. The method of brainstorming, developed by Alex Osborne more than 80 years ago, is bullied and hunted through the village as a creative method that only makes things worse. The main arguments against brainstorming: Quick [...]
