Australian Oil & Gas Industry at risk of collapse – Solving the workforce skills crisis

Maximising Workforce Productivity in the Oil and Gas Industry Sarah Cordiner An inadequately skilled workforce in Australia has been identified as “a major impediment to the growth of Australia’s resource sector,” according to APPEA in their report, “Platform for Prosperity.” In Western Australia alone, there are $130 billion worth of resource and infrastructure projects under…

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How To Be The Best Educator – Or The Worst

The Efficacy Effect (Sarah Cordiner) is a concept that illustrates how and to what extent people can influence results through their belief in their ability to control various life events. Our everyday experiences – indeed, our entire life path – can be influenced by our perceived ability or inability to succeed in any given activity, despite what our actual ability…

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Moaners, Groaners and Heel-Draggers: 3 ways to engage training and development participants who resist change

Training and developing people is supposed to facilitate change and provide a positive experience, a successful outcome and better lives for the participants. Yet change is a phenomenon that always seems to generate fear, resistance, and heel-dragging. It is vital that change-makers, leaders and educators of all kinds know how to apply the top 3…

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The question that makes people hate you

I was recently having dinner with a friend when the diners beside us struck up a conversation. After the usual small talk, ‘that’ question was asked.   The one that people find impossible to leave alone, the one that people cannot possibly get into real conversation without asking, the one that makes us all wary…

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What the hell is ‘efficacy’?? It’s hell if you don’t have it!

Efficacy: Give this to your learner’s, clients and employee and you’ll be remembered (in the right way) forever….. The Efficacy Effect is all about creating desired results; and importantly, it’s about maximising upon every opportunity to increase our learners, clients and employees’ beliefs and awareness of their capabilities to create desired results. We all had…

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