Tip 291: The Winning Trainer's Dictionary
Happy New Year to all Kaizen's subscribers, clients and chums! May 2009 be your best year yet! We're busy here working with exciting new client projects, developing new workshops, creating the Kaizen Shop and filling places on Kaizen's 2009 Blackbelt Development Programme which promises to be the best one yet!
Why not give yourself or a colleague the amazing New Year opportunity to participate in our internationally-acclaimed Brain Friendly Learning for Trainers workshop - scheduled for 28 - 30 January 2009. Everything trainers need to design and facilitate learning experiences that are fast, fun and fit-for-purpose. The absolute cutting-edge for learning and development professionals. See the panel to the right for more information.
This week's FriendlyBrain Tip comes to you from Kaizen's own language maestro, Haider Imam, who has a very strange brain indeed (for which we're all jolly grateful!)
Ten of our best new words!
Entertrainment: sticky, fit-for-purpose learning and a 'hoot' at the same time, whether it's a trainer being a stand-up comedienne or the group making a presentation on performance management (in the style of a Scooby Doo episode). Humour aids learning.
Delightmare: a wonderful 'problem' to have. For example, do I drive the Porsche or the Aston to work today? Nightmare! On a more useful note, it's a 'reframing' attitude at it's best: unless you're facing imminent physical or emotional threat, you can always find a way that your current challenge serves you. Delightmare!
Workafrolic: Doing what you do because you simply love it and can't imagine not doing it. For example, a workafrolic wins £10 million on the lottery and still goes back to work because they can't think of a better way to spend their time than pursuing their passion.
Learnertic: A learning monster; a voracious consumer and sharer of research, stories, theory, applications, case studies, courses, media. Learning something gives a learnertic an opiate high!
Funcomfortable: It's fun. It's uncomfortable. It's edgy. When you experience this state you're alive and in the present moment and open to major learning.
Co-op-etition: a scenario where an organisation is working hand in hand with a competitor to produce a new product / service, or to service a mutual customer (increasingly common in progressive organisations)
Draining Officer: someone who runs draining workshops when people expected training workshops. They literally suck the life out of you with 57 PowerPoint slides, chalk-and-talk and boring content. Avoid.
Penergetic: A creative state where you're inspired to pick up a pen (or type an email) to write down some fabulous ideas and the words flow wild and beautiful, like the Amazon River!
Manageritis: An illness of leaders whose heads are spinning due to an inflammation of their 'power' and influence glands, thus alienating themselves from the rest of the organisation
Co-aching: When coaching turns into a sympathy session, and the coach fails to help the coachee create empowering choices, they simply 'ache' together!
This week's Call to Action
Email us with your own personal favourites of new words, creations or comments to directors@kaizen-training.com - let's see how many we can compile for future tips! If you'd like to receive an interesting mini-coaching exercise around these words, please e-mail us at directors@kaizen-training.com
As you reflect on how many of these you do or see on a regular basis, which two of the ten new words contribute most to the results you get?
Take tiny steps and enjoy the learning!