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The 8 vital aspects of presenting to a camera lens compared with presenting live face to face. In just under 1,000 words, Paul Archer from Archer Training takes you through 8 essential strategies to ensure your online presenting is upgraded, improved and future-proofed.
What is the definition of being old? Whether you still use the word digital. While I show my own age with that introduction, the speed of technological change continues to be a principal driver in financial services, alongside the rest of the PESTLE analysis.
There was a time when ‘going to work’ meant just that. You left the house and travelled to your workplace, arrived and got started on the day.
There is a strong school of thought within financial services businesses that it is good to train people and rightly so. It is a complex industry where those in a client facing role especially, need to have sufficient understanding of the current legal, tax, financial and regulatory elements to ensure client’s needs are met.
‘You’re on mute’ has to be one of the most common phrases we heard last year as we all started working from home. And as we then embraced the technology that allowed us to see our colleagues as well as hear them, the second most common phrase has to be ‘let me share my screen’.
The complete list of the skills, attributes and knowledge that a modern workplace trainer needs to thrive in the Post-COVID world of training Evolving Corporate Trainer Corporate and workplace training has evolved remarkably since COVID 19 and will migrate mostly online. This is well known and documented.
No, it’s not another Shakespeare reference, as it is a Douglas Adams quote, but is, in this case, almost a statement of facts, as if we knew what facts were anymore.
In-person, live in a real room with real people, it was easy. You had your slides to your right on a screen or giant TV, you stood and presented to the side, holding eye contact with the audience, reading their reactions.
I’m not sure that there is much of 2020 that we will look back on in fondness, but I think those of us in the professional learning and development industry should at least be patting ourselves on the back.
COVID-19 has changed many things in our lives, much of this change will be permanent, but no one is sure. What I do know is I haven’t driven my car since March, and that was almost five months ago. I don’t need to. I live in town, can cycle everywhere.
In a recent update to a paper on culture and governance published on its website, the FCA states: “We define culture as the habitual behaviours and mindsets that characterise an organisation.
“ When I was a young manager I lost my job. The loss of self esteem for anybody losing their job – and a lot of people are going to experience that in the next months, sadly – is a huge blow. You don’t know how to talk to your family about it.
