Emotional intelligence, Learning
Many congratulations to the 352,590 students who discovered this week that they’ve got the ‘A’ Level exam grades they need to go to their first choice universities. “Alex got into his first choice university today – so thank you.” There have been several proud parents who’ve thanked me for helping [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
How organised and methodical are you in your revision? Do you know what topics you’ve already learnt and what topics you need to focus on next? Are you keeping a record of what you need to test yourself on, and when, so that you retain the information you’ve learnt? If you’ve [...]
Learning
We’re going to see how you can play around with equations in such a way that you remember them easily in the exam. It just happens that it’s profitability ratios I’m looking at, but quite frankly, you can try this technique with any equations. Remember, this is just one [...]
Learning
One of the many tricks world memory champions use to learn and easily recall information is a particular memory technique called the Journey Method. It’s really easy for you to use too, to learn and remember information for your Financial Services exams. Basically, how it works is by utilising the [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
Watch this introduction to Emotionally Intelligent Communication and find out what it can do for you. If you know someone who might be interested in identifying and expressing their needs so that others really listen, and so they feel heard and understood, please let them know about this workshop. It’s a new course and I’m [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
So there I am, a newbie, surrounded by old hands in the Green Room of the Kenton Theatre, Henley-on-Thames. My first rehearsal. My first show. I’d been cast in one of the lead roles and I was terrified of letting the others down . I was okay with the singing [...]
Learning
1. Spend enough time with the information for your brain to make a pattern of it. 2. Make your notes in a form your brain likes, so it can see the patterns and relationships. 3. Revisit your revision according to the Learning Cycle. 4. Split your revision into short chunks. [...]
Learning
Why would I suggest you use plain paper instead of lined to write your revision notes? The problem with lined paper is that it encourages you to write in a linear fashion from left to right, starting at the beginning of the line and not moving onto the next until [...]
Emotional intelligence, General, Learning
You do remember the Generation Game, don’t you? Started in the early ‘70s… and as kids we loved it, especially the last game where the two families tried to copy an expert in a skill needing the ability to pay close attention and copy accurately. One week there’d be an [...]
General, Learning
Knowing how hard it is for schools to make their budgets go far enough, and knowing how expensive iPads are, I’m really quite impressed that some schools are beginning to equip their classrooms with iPads for their students. When I was teaching, it was hard enough for schools to keep [...]
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