Tips For Trainers Conference
Central London UK
Pre-Conference Workshop - Wednesday 12 March 2008
Conference -
Thursday 13 March 2008 and Friday 14 March 2008
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Tips For Trainers Conference Central London UK Pre-Conference Workshop - Wednesday 12 March 2008 Conference -
Thursday 13 March 2008 and Friday 14 March 2008 |
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Meet Your Workshop Facilitators
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Workshop Facilitators |
Company and Web site |
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David Gibson
Author of 'Tips for Trainers' sent via eMail every 2 weeks and the 5 eBooks of 'Tips for Trainers and co-developer of this conference with Christophe Peger. Continually looking for new ideas and techniques to make the learning process easier, more enjoyable and longer lasting for all learners. Techniques on their own are not enough; they must be rigorously checked against latest research from the worlds of education and neuroscience. |
Eureka! |
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Christophe Peger
Working mainly in-house around Europe plus facilitating a series of public workshops and key note presentations. Christophe is the co-founder of Eureka! along with David Gibson. Companies he has worked with recently include Finaref, Ceficem, NRG France, Ricoh, Solvay SA, Action contre la Faim, CAMAIEU International, Elior, Avenance, Boulanger ... |
Eureka! |
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Dr Roger Greenaway
Roger has been writing books and articles about facilitating learning from experience since 1990. His latest writing (a chapter on 'dynamic debriefing') was published in Mel Silberman's Handbook of Experiential Learning in 2007. Recent articles have included: Reviewing for Fun, Reviewing for All, and Reviewing for Results. Roger provides a mixture of public courses (for educators, trainers and consultants) and courses designed for training organisations or training departments. About one third of Roger's work is within the UK, a third in other European countries and another third in countries outside Europe. Roger specialises in two closely related subjects: reviewing (debriefing) and the transfer of learning. He trains facilitators to use techniques that result in high levels of engagement throughout the processes of learning and transfer. |
Reviewing Skills Training |
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Ross Page
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TOM Leadership and Communication |
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Tony Mann
Tony is also the author of the CD ROM Learning Pack “Leading Corporate Change - Strategic Leadership and Results” published by Journey Learning. |
Resource Masters of Change |
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Jooli Atkins
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Matrix 42 |
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Bob White
Bob has a reputation for designing and delivering enjoyable, interactive sessions focused on the needs of the business and the trainee, bringing clear benefits to both. Clients include Central Trains, College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise , Duchy College, Soil Association, University of Central England etc |
AtLast! |
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Terry Lewis
Terry is the author of over 6 of Mango's course handbooks including Practical Financial Managment for NGO's, Getting the Basic's right etc and her most recent publication is for Oxfam 'Pick Up and Go' training pack series, Using Project Financial Reports. Terry has a passion and expertise in systems design for small NGOs, training trainers and developing distance learning materials. |
Mango |
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Stella Collins
Stella has a passion for effective communication, sharing knowledge and meeting other people, and has recently set up a popular network for anyone with an interest in brain friendly learning. Stellar Learning’s current clients include Royal Society of Chemistry, Telford and Wrekin Council, Wokingham District Council, Syngenta, NFEA, Breakthrough Breast Cancer etc. |
Stella Collins |
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Desmond Mills
His specialist area is working with young people, co-ordinating a number of placement schemes including the Summer Placement Scheme for Children Looked After and the Youth Employment Scheme. The schemes are successful due to the development of excellent support, which includes training interventions with a difference, to keep young people engaged and motivated. Desmond has a zest for being active, getting his hands dirty and contributing his experience whilst learning from others. |
London Borough of Newham |
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Hazel Morley
With more than 16 years experience in T&D, Hazel’s specialist area of expertise is helping individuals, teams and organisations discover success strategies that will maximise personal impact and profitability. Her personal objective is to make learning fun, easy and results focussed. All of her work is conducted in a Thinking Environment™. Client list includes The Rugby Football Union, The University of Nottingham, The John Lewis Partnership, Waitrose Ltd, Lubrizol Ltd, Greggs Plc, Boots The Chemists Ltd, B&Q, Vauxhall Motors Ltd, Wellbeing.com and Royal Mail. |
Hazel Morley |
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Vanessa Randle
Vanessa Randle is the force behind thinkingvisually Ltd. Having spent 20 years nursing a real frustration about how organisations communicate with people Vanessa set out to model a way of doing things differently and so be the change she wanted to see. Using her experience, skills and innovative thinking she developed a fantastic, vibrant and visual presentational style to capture and present information and ideas clearly and succinctly using words and pictures. She pitches up at a meeting or business event with her boards, pens, paper and coloured markers and transforms what people say and what she sees into a creative, large scale visual record; real time, right in front of peoples’ eyes. thinkingvisually – simply making sense using words and pictures |
Thinking Visually |
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Penny Pullan
Penny is a Certified Professional Facilitator of the IAF and has a variety of Project and Project Management qualifications. |
Making Projects Work |
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Sue Walden
Sue is also the Director and a regular performer with San Francisco's longest-running improvisational theatre company, "Flash Family". Two years ago, Sue decided to stretch her performing envelope by creating a one-woman (sorta) improv show that she has down in various locations, including London and Finland in June of this year. Sue promises that, in any of her programs, while the learning may be challenging, it will also be fun! |
ImprovWorks! |
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Dr. Brit van Ooijen
Living and working in 4 countries and 2 continents has shaped her passion for cross-cultural issues. Other interests include improvisation, motivation, leadership and customer service in health care. The client list includes Air France, Carrefour, Renault, Qatar Gas, International Bank of Qatar and Hamad Medical Corporation Doha. |
CHN Institute, Doha, Qatar |
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Anne Harper
Go Training specialise in customer service training programmes for staff and management as well as business development and consultancy. Anne is passionate about service, attitude and people. Her training style is relaxed, interactive and professional. She has recently published her book “Stop the bus” based on maintaining a positive attitude and getting more out of life. Based in Aberdeen, she mainly delivers training for industries such as oil and gas and tourism. Anne is a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality and an NLP Practitioner. |
Go Training |
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Ann Grindrod
I am passionate about the different ways in which people absorb information, think, learn, and develop. My commitment to diversity and well being of others drive me to make knowledge transfer enjoyable and memorable so that it is useful, both personally and in the workplace.”
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Simply Learning |
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Steve Parkins
He is a national member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), a Board Member of the Fort Lauderdale, FL Chapter of the ASTD, a member of the Hollywood and Miami, FL Chambers of Commerce.
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TOM Leadership and Communication |
Over
25 years training experience, honing his skills in the IT field where he
developed totally learner centred IT training workshops. Now using
all this experience in the field of trainer development.
Specialising
in learner centred trainer development with the premise that if training
is about learning a new skill or applying new knowledge, the only way
you can learn to do this is by actually doing it, not simply hearing
about it.
Dr.
Roger Greenaway is a Londoner living in Scotland who has been providing
trainer-training in reviewing skills since 1983. He was awarded a
doctorate in management learning in 1995.
Creator
of the Enlightened Response and TOM books and concepts, Ross combines
considerable presenting and training experience with broad subject and
his quirky sense of humour to provide fascinating learning sessions with
solid practical outcomes. For participants, Ross feels it is important
in any development situation to have an enjoyable experience. This
provides an ideal environment for fast acquisition of knowledge and the
opportunity to walk away with attitude and behavioural changes that can
make an immediate difference to life and business.
Tony
is leading facilitator working at an international level. He has
recently toured New Zealand, running workshops of facilitation. He has
written three books on facilitation and change. He and his colleagues
have developed ADaPT® a software program for handling (competency)
profiling using an on-line facility. Resource, his company also provides
filming, editing and DVD production of ‘live’ events such as strategic
workshops and training events. 
Jooli
Atkins has been involved in training for the past 25 years, mainly in
the IT sector. She is the Chair of the BCS Information and Technology
Training Specialist Group as well as being an active member of the IITT.
She works with both public and private sector clients managing training
for IS and business change management projects, as well as designing and
developing the “Excellent Learning Facilitation” programme for Matrix
FortyTwo. Her style is based on her personal methodology known as
‘structured pragmativity’, a unique blend of creativity and pragmatism
within a structured event.
Bo
Terry
joined Mango (Management Accounting for Non-Governmental Organisations)
in May 2001 when she set-up the training department and developed a wide
range of training courses now available through Mango Training.
Stella
Collins set up Stellar Learning in 2001 believing that people are active
learners, encouraging their innovation, creativity and involvement so
that they can reach for their stars.
Desmond
Mills is a Learning and Development Consultant with the London Borough
of Newham. His role is to assist service areas in developing staff and
facilitating the delivery of training and development opportunities.
Hazel
set up HM Training & Consultancy in June 1999 with the aim of helping
organisations get cognitively fit; to find emotionally intelligent ways
to change so success becomes inevitable. 
Vanessa
Randle and Penny Pullan are passionate about harnessing the
power of visuals to improve communication and make meetings and
events even more interesting, effective and stimulating.
Penny
Pullan works with companies experiencing change. She discovered
graphic facilitation in 2001 and was amazed at the power of
combining powerful, yet simple visuals with group facilitation –
allowing people to literally ‘see what they mean’. She
experienced a dramatic increase in peoples' engagement with
actions as well as improved communication during meetings. In
Mars Inc. Penny set up a community of practising facilitators
around the world to maximise the benefits to the company of
using these skills.
Sue
is the founder of ImprovWorks, a not-for-profit organization
dedicated to applying the skills, tools and techniques of
improvisation training to business, theatre and life. Her
experience includes a BA in Education and 28 years of teaching,
performing and adapting and widely applying the techniques of
improvisation. She approaches improv training as a powerful and
joyful way to peel away constraints, restraints and inhibitions,
allowing the naturally expressive, collaborative and creative
self to emerge.
In a
former life Dr Brit van Ooijen was a cognitive psycholinguist looking at
how the language part of the brain works – or fails to work, until she
realised it was effective communication that fascinated her. Today she
is Training Manager at CHN Institute for Training, Research and
Consulting in Doha, Qatar. She has designed and delivered
soft-skills and management training courses both in Europe and the Gulf.
Her aim is to treat each course as an opportunity for experiential
learning.
Anne
Harper began her career in management within the tourism and
hospitality Industry until she founded Go Training in 1999.
Ann
Grindrod is a licensed Business Master Practitioner of NLP, with further
professional qualifications in learning, development, and counselling.
She is a practising member of the Society of NLP, the Chartered
Institute of Personnel and Development, and the Association of Career
Professionals International. With a background in the services
sector, and a strong focus on customer care, her diverse experience
includes working with more than 50 organisations in her 18-year trading
history.