Practice Notes

Join us for the next two Tea and Toast Learning Sessions

If you haven't attended one yet, then come along to one of our Tea and Toast hour-long sessions. They're free and open to everyone.

Storytelling: its role in communicating business ideas

The World Bank and Sky City are just two organisations that use storytelling to get their messages across. Why is it effective? What techniques can you use?

Date: Wednesday 4 May

Time: 8am - 9am

Venue: Boardroom, Level 5, Newspaper House, 93, Boulcott Street

Speaker: Hilary Bryan, The Training Practice director

Email katherine@trainingpractice.co.nz if you want to come. All welcome and no charge.

Mediating workplace conflict

Jon Everest, The Training Practice Associate, and workplace mediator will present this session. He's got plenty of hands on experience in the workplace and also runs anti-violence programmes.

Date: Monday 30 May

Time: 8am - 9am

Venue: Boardroom, Level 5, Newspaper House, 93, Boulcott Street

Speaker: Jon Everest, The Training Practice Associate

Email katherine@trainingpractice.co.nz if you want to come. All welcome and no charge.

Managing your energy levels at work

Check out www.corporateathlete.com Click on Find your current level of engagement. Free on the home page. You can complete a short survey and find out more about your energy levels and level of engagement.  The Corporate Athlete/Levels of Engagement concept is worth a look. It says we should manage energy, rather than time, to achieve high performance. To do this, we need to build in recovery time from stressful work periods. Rituals that build in this recovery, such as regular walks and social activity, all help.

You can read more about this in The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz or the article, The Making of a Corporate Athlete, Harvard Business Review, January 2001. Well worth a look.

The WriteMark - a new standard in plain English

We're fans of clear and user-friendly writing. So, full marks to The Write Group for launching the WriteMark, a new quality benchmark for plain English writing. Check out www.writemark.co.nz If you already write in plain English, that's great. The WriteMark will show your customers and stakeholders you're committed to clear, open communication. If you don't, now's a good time to start. The Write Group website, www.write.co.nz has a Free stuff section, with heaps of great writing tips. It's also got an Ask us a question section. You can ask any question about writing or grammar and get a personalised reply.