This week I presented my popular workshop on “12 Proven Tricks to Spice up your Training” at the VELG National Conference in Melbourne. In the presentation I discussed the importance of engaging the audience and finding the balance between attraction and distraction. Essentially we want to distract them to our training, not distract them from our training.

We have been getting a lot of press this week about our comments on training your way out of the downturn… at the same time, I happened upon this quote from Charles Darwin: “it is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”. The two have come into alignment for me this week and got me reflecting on what responsible CEOs should be doing. Let’s face it, the rules of changed, the game has changed, and if we don’t change our approach to business, we will be on the endangered list. Put simply, we can’t do what we’ve always done.