On average, 4 million Americans are quitting their jobs each month in 2022! This trend is not limited to the United States alone. The pandemic, remote work and self-reflection led people to re-evaluate their priorities at work, and their life as a whole. The Microsoft Work Trend Index shows that more than 40% are considering…
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No wonder modern L&D professionals are asking for corporate role play actors to add impact to soft skills training and get a competitive edge. Most training is theoretical and doesn’t stick! Companies that deploy professional actors for corporate role play in assessment and development courses claim that the benefits are huge. Role play actors can…
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Play is possibly the most potent tool used by educators. Can role play be a useful tool in workplace training? Yes! Not the traditional: get two people to sit opposite each other and pretend to be in a situation while everyone one else watches (a sure way to kill off any sense of playfulness).
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Have you wondered how to gain greater impact when communicating? Simply changing what you do with your body can help you experience different feelings. This goes against what most people think about cause and effect in human communication. Discover how role play exercises could give you more impact.
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Role play is possibly one of the most controversial methods used in business training. So why should you even bother trying role play as a business training method? Anything we do well in life has come from practicing it, and that’s where role play becomes a powerful teaching tool.
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Albert Mehrabian is an American Psychologist known for his work on verbal and nonverbal communication. In 1967, he published 2 studies dealing with positive and negative emotions experienced via 3 channels of human communication. What he discovered still causes controversy.
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Status is an instinctive form of body language. It is fundamentally a defense mechanism. When you play high status, you are sending out the message, “don’t mess with me because I bite”. When you play low status, you are sending out the message, “don’t mess with me because I’m really not worth the effort.”
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Public speaking or jumping out of a plane… which would you prefer to do? Given a choice, there are a lot of people out there who’d rather jump out of a plane (some of those without a parachute) than speak in front of others. Here are 4 tips to help you overcome your fear of public speaking.
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The world has gone a little crazy during the outbreak of COVID19, with toilet paper panic buying, unstable stock markets, seminars being cancelled, and the world economy taking a hit. As a result, we are advised to stay at home. That’s only a temporary solution.
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