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Gratitude for these 2 Challenging Weeks

It has been a very challenging 2 weeks. Every challenge is an experience and some experience contributes to our learning curve. Eldest Daughter Hospitalized. Just over 2 weeks ago, my eldest daughter woke me up to tell me of her pain in her tummy area. It was about 1 am or so. I told her
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A Huge Wake Up Call by Covid-19

  I first heard of Covid-19 in December 2019, from a small exotic meat market in Wuhan, or so we’re told. A few months later, this virus has ravaged the global economy, forcing industries to be shut down. In March 2020, some of the measures began taking place in Singapore. Measures that hurts my business
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Workshop Learning Activities - Speed Dating

As a learner, there is a limit to what I can learn in a ‘sit and listen’ classroom environment. As a trainer, I personally feel that it is more exciting and fun to add variation of strategies to make learning fun. Speed Dating is something I use, for both ice-breakers and learning activity.  The steps
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My Personal Goal Getting Story

One of the most intriguing topic in the area of personal development is Goal Setting. A few years back, I found a story on the importance of proper goal setting and goal management. A well-known U.S. Decathlete and Olympic gold medalist, Bruce Jenner, was speaking to a roomful of Olympic hopefuls. He asked if they’ve
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Why You Need  To Be Successful

“I am just a technician. Being a success is really beyond me” “As a janitor (cleaner), there is no such thing as success” These are some of the more common comments I hear during those days when I was conducting Employability Skills training. Even my fellow trainers and my mentor, received their fair share of
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Using QR Code As Part Of Your Staff Training Activity

It was 1st April 2015 when I first created this video. At that time, I had another website advocating learner centered instruction but it was not well received. Nevertheless, the videos stayed online and I hope it can continue to be some form of resource on way or another. This activity is nothing high tech
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Using Whiteboard Videos As A Training Tool

Have you seen or heard about a whiteboard video? The one that shows a hand writing or doodling throughout the video? One of the first whiteboard videos that I came across was way back in 2010. It was titled “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson. I was intrigued by how this simple animation,
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3 Lessons From Repairing My Own Iphone 4

I don’t really consider myself a minimalist but I don’t really buy what I don’t really need. End of the year 2010, I bought an iPhone 4 when my Nokia 5800, which I have been using since 2008, decided to stop functioning. I used my iPhone 4 for almost everything, almost like a swiss army knife.
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That Goose & Golden Eggs Story..

One of the reasons I strongly recommend reading Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is really because it is easy to read and he makes use of basic analogy to drive his point across. The stories he used in his book are not totally new, or at least not to me. But he shared
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