Developing others' soft skills can be hard: why?
By Martin Thompson, MTa Founder For over 30 years I’ve been working in Organisational Development working with 1000s of trainers worldwide. During 1:1...
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Experiential Learning Case Study – Team and Leadership Activities
5P’s are one of Portugal’s leading providers of team building activities and events for group sizes of 10 to 300+. They requested a bespoke facilitator...
Shearing sheep and facilitating experiential learning are similar. Why?
I spent a couple of days working in a shearing shed recently, as a helper not a shearer I hasten to add. At first sight, the contrast between shearing sheep...
Planning: the key to effective facilitation or a recipe for disaster?
The lesson of the 5 P’s, ‘Poor Planning Provides Poor Performance’ often resounds around training rooms. It’s not surprising that the importance of effective...
How to encourage learning and development, lessons from parenthood!
As a parent I wanted my children to make ‘best use’ of their potential. I had over 30 more years of experience in this world than them: 30 years of learning to...
Pinpoint Facilitation's Technique Development Course
We have developed some fantastic friendships with other businesses including Oxfordshire based Pinpoint Facilitation, experts in methodical and systematic...
A facilitator’s objective and criteria for success?
Consider these situations: Situation 1: If a group I’ve been facilitating meets its objective I’m likely to feel positive about the experience and might...
Is it possible to develop team skills in just one hour?
Aim: The aim of the lesson was to produce a video of groups learning how to recognise and make greater use of their potential. The Plan: Run two separate...
How can bits of plastic help with personal and organisational growth?
QA, is one of the UK’s leading learning providers. They recently invested in the MTa Team KIT and then blogged about their experience:- If someone gave you two...
Stimulating thought through social media
My positive experiences and challenges faced through using Twitter as a tool to promote thinking In June 2011, I was persuaded to start writing Tweets for...
Which is the toughest team sport? Why?
Or put another way, which sport requires the most demanding and diverse range of team skills in the field of play? To win any competition, you need to...