Should it be called training or learning and does it even matter?
I have found that these words are used interchangeably, in a similar way that leadership and management are (I will come back to that one another time). I have found some peers and colleagues have very strong opinions and I have been questioned over the years about my preference and when and why I use…
What is it you are actually doing Fiona?
Moving from having a ‘real’ job with an actual job description and clear responsibilities to being a full time student for a year, again with clear deadlines and structure to then becoming a freelance trainer has been…a challenge. To help me focus I was asked some key questions by someone who has supported others…
To blog or not to blog that is the question.
I’m excited about going live ‘officially’ with the website, I want to keep it alive and interesting, not just a static “Who are Pink Tree Training and what is it that they do?” type of thing, which I think would be more of a brochure than a website and that isn’t what I want this…
The day I realised that my values are actually quite important to me.
I’ve been training leaders about the importance of values based leadership for many years, stressing the importance of values for transformational leadership approaches, emotional intelligence and followership. I had always thought that I truly believed what I was saying, you know – authenticity and all that. Then, as part of my new adventure as a…