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Training Should Not Be a Box‑Ticking Exercise!
It must add real value: both to the organisation and to the delegates.

In my many years of training leaders, managers, and businesspeople, it has become obvious that much training in the market is little more than box‑ticking.

People will often go on face‑to‑face or online courses, where they sit through a PowerPoint presentation, follow a set of notes, complete a feedback sheet, and are then ticked off as being "trained."

So now they should be able to lead the team, handle conflict, manage emotions, motivate staff, prioritise and delegate the correct tasks, and achieve goals. After all, they have seen the PowerPoint slides or gone through the online training and completed the multiple‑choice questionnaire that is supposed to "check their learning."

None of this "training" has any real value. It is a fruitless waste of time, and even worse, it is counter‑productive because it destroys the concept of training as a valuable exercise.

The Importance of Proper Training
Training is probably the single most important element of professional development. There are two ways to learn:
• Trial‑and‑error experience
• Proper training

What Do We Mean by Proper Training?
Proper training has certain characteristics:
1. Purposeful: designed to achieve a specific purpose.
2. Relevant: the examples and illustrations are relevant to the attendees.
3. Highly structured: provides structured methods that delegates can learn, understand and practise, in the same way that a musician might learn and practise scales.

For example, a manager or leader can learn and practise communication skill models that describe successful behaviour and unsuccessful behaviour, so that we do more of the good and eliminate the destructive. These models are proven not only by personal experience and history, but by logical reasoning.

Benefits for Everyone Involved
Training must be beneficial to everybody involved:
• The organisation gains staff who know exactly what to do and what not to do.
• The delegate benefits professionally and personally, applying the same models in work and domestic settings.

We often find at the end of our courses that delegates say, "I found this course not only beneficial for my work life, but also for my personal life."
Delegates should leave feeling better educated, with greater understanding, knowledge, skill, and confidence.

This is what good training can achieve - tick‑box training never does. So, if you want proper training, ensure it is never just a tick‑box exercise.

The role of a leader is the same as the role of a government:
To create the conditions that increase productivity, progress, and prosperity.

That means supporting invention, production, and trade; not controlling it, regulating it to death, or taxing it into nonexistence.

Good managers do not block productivity.
They enable it.

Our training helps people become more productive by giving them the understanding and practical methods they need to succeed as leader-managers.

Goal focus
Clear communication
Rational planning
Prioritisation and delegation
Emotional intelligence

Productivity drives progress. We show people how to get the best from themselves and others.

𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲

Would you like to develop your leadership abilities or help someone else grow into a management role?

Start here: 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲

This quick self-assessment helps you identify which leadership skills are strong, and which need work.

It covers key areas like:

Planning, Communication, Handling Conflict, Motivation and Decision Making.

You can use it as a conversation starter for personal development, appraisals, or coaching sessions.

Try it here: https://corporatecoachgroup.com/questionnaires/leader-manager-profile

Let’s Embrace AI Because It Improves Individual Productivity

At work, we must be the most productive we can be.
To do that, we should use the best technologies.

Technology is any tool that improves our efficiency; in quantity, quality, or both.
People who use the best tools always have the advantage over those who do not.
It has been this way since the beginning: People with spears had the advantage over those with only their bare hands, the person with a bow had the advantage over the spear, and the one who could light a fire, build a steam engine, then a train, a computer, or AI always have the advantage.

To be competitive in a world that demands high quality and low cost, we must be efficient and that means using the best tools.
AI is one of them.

But people are creatures of habit.
Habits help us decide and move quickly, but they also stop us changing. New technology disrupts old habits, and many people resist it. But those who resist usually fall behind those who adopt.

This has always been the choice: embrace it or fight it. The word ‘sabotage’ comes from peasants throwing wooden shoes, sabots, into machines they feared would take their jobs. And yes, machines do take jobs, but they also free us to do better work.
Let the machines do the labour so that human creativity can move forward.

AI is a tool. In the short term, it poses a threat, but it is also a great opportunity.

I work four times faster with AI than without it.
That may be true for many people.
So let us embrace the opportunity and realise AIs potential

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Chris Farmer

Improving Lives by Improving Productivity
Because production and trade is the source of human progress and prosperity.

It is production and trade that hold people together. It is production and trade that create society.

Without production and trade, there is only poverty and need.

Only with increased production and trade can we add value to ourselves, our families, our cities, communities, and our country.

This is how we lift people out of poverty.

Governments like to think of themselves as the agency responsible for lifting people out of poverty, but that is not true.

The best way to lift people out of poverty is to provide opportunities to produce goods and services that have real value. When people produce and trade, they create value for themselves, their families, their employers, and their customers.

There is a Moral and Social Element to Production and Trade
We need to ask: why did people first come together?

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived as hunter-gatherers in small family groups of 10 to 30 people, moving across East Africa. They met others only on appointed days, perhaps at full moon, gathering by the river to trade.

One person had more meat than they could eat. Another had more stone tools than they needed. So, they traded.

Trade formed the basis of human society. The trading places became market towns. Market towns became communities. Communities became cities. Cities became nations. Only after production and trade created wealth did governments appear.

Society does not rest upon governments. Society rests upon production and trade. Without production and trade, there is poverty and need. Where production and trade exist, there is prosperity and progress.

The Solution to Human Need
The solution to human need does not come from government taking wealth from producers to redistribute in exchange for votes. The solution comes from production and trade.

The Industrial Revolution proves this. It began in the north of England around 1750. James Watt invented the steam engine. Steam power spread into railways, agriculture, textiles, and industry.

Machines took on the heavy lifting. People were freed from hard physical labour. Standards of living rose. Politicians did not raise living standards. Inventors, producers, and traders raised living standards.

The same process continues today.

The Moral Power of Productivity
People must recognise the moral power of production and trade. Greater productivity benefits everyone.

Our training rests on one core principle: Improving lives by improving productivity.

Productivity is the most important concept in human history. Without productivity, there is nothing to consume. Without productivity, there is no wealth, no progress, no public services, and no future.

If you want to know how to improve productivity and make the maximum progress in minimum time, please follow this link: https://corporatecoachgroup.com/blog/production-and-trade

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Leading with Love: How to Get the Best from People in Stressful Times

Leading with Love is a strange title and sounds a bit ‘hippy’, but it’s a good hook to get us thinking about how we can get the best from ourselves and others—especially during stressful and changing times.

Leading with Love is about creating the right conditions for high performance, based on the fact that we are all emotional animals.
Emotional safety is at the base of productive work performance.
Whenever people feel under stressed threat, their emotional brain takes over and shuts down the part of the rational brain that sets and achieves goals, makes plans, solves problems, makes decisions, and gets results.

We cannot be creative, focused, or rational when we feel unsafe, threatened, or stressed.
Leading with Love means building a safe and respectful environment where people feel appreciated, respected, and valued.
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Understanding the Brain

There are three parts of the brain that drive behaviour:
• The instinctive brain handles automatic functions like balance and survival.

• The emotional brain controls feelings—both negative and positive: stress, threat, fear, anger, upset, and also desire, confidence, commitment, optimism, and motivation.

• The rational brain is the seat of all production: goal achievement, planning, preparation, invention, innovation, and continuous improvement.

But here’s the thing: the rational brain only works when the emotional brain feels safe.
If the emotional brain feels unsafe—if it feels threatened—the rational brain shuts down instantly.
That’s why under pressure, people go blank, shut down, or play up.
Psychologists call this the freeze, flight, or fight response.
This doesn’t just happen in extreme situations. It happens every day at work—when people feel unsafe, threatened, uncertain, rejected, unappreciated, disrespected, devalued, or overwhelmed.
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What Does a Good Leader Do?
As leaders, our job is to create the emotional conditions where people can think clearly, rationally, and productively.
That means we must learn to talk to both brains at once:

• The rational brain, which drives performance

• And the emotional brain, which can shut down performance if it feels threatened by circumstances or poor communication
Leading with Love is about getting the best from people by appealing to both the rational and emotional brain.
We do that by making sure our people feel safe, secure, and appreciated—not unsafe, threatened, or unappreciated.
We do this by learning how to communicate in ways that put the emotional brain in a non-threat, happy state—and by avoiding acting in ways that trigger the freeze, flight, or fight response, which shuts down the rational, productive mind.

When people feel valued, respected, and safe, they perform much better.
That’s not fluffy—it’s good psychology, and it’s good business practice.
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Learn How to Lead with Love
We’re running a one-day course called Leading with Love.
It’s practical. It’s science based. It helps leaders bring out the best in people—by keeping the emotional brain in a happy state, which leaves the rational brain free to get on with making progress.

We can come to your business and teach your people these leadership communication skills.

Or people can attend our live online course, which runs on the 16th day of every month.

If you want to learn how to lead people through stress, change, or uncertainty—and help them do their best work—you need to know how to Lead with Love.

https://corporatecoachgroup.com/courses/leading-with-love

Chris Farmer

Be an Independent Thinker
There are two states of mind: dependent thinking and independent thinking. The goal is to be an independent thinker.

Dependent Thinkers
Dependent thinkers pick up ideas based on how they sound rather than whether they are true. They are drawn to ideas that seem attractive, interesting, or popular without analysing them. They absorb ideas from television, the internet, or conversations with friends, but they do not test them against reality. Because of this, they are easily persuaded, easily fooled, and too quick to believe falsehoods. Many people fall into this category.

Independent Thinkers
Independent thinkers critically analyse every idea. They test ideas against their own observations, logical consistency, and common sense. If an idea contradicts their experience, fails a logical test, or simply doesn’t make sense, they reject it. This is the only way to live successfully in a world overflowing with false ideas.

Guard Your Mind
To be an independent thinker, stand guard at the doors of your mind. Do not let falsehoods slip in unchallenged. Think for yourself, question everything, and accept only what withstands logical analysis.

Thank you.
Chris Farmer

How to handle criticism.
None of us are perfect, are we?
So now and then, we’re going to get criticism for something we’ve done or said.

Nobody likes being criticized, but when it happens, we shouldn’t just dismiss it or fight it, should we?

Instead, we should analyze it, because all criticism falls into one of three categories:

It’s true – In that case, we take it as feedback and make the necessary changes.

It’s partially true – Then we learn what we can and adjust accordingly.

It’s false – If it’s completely unfounded, then we have no reason to change.

The key is to be willing to listen. If we’re honest with ourselves, and we see that the criticism is true or partly true, then we take it as feedback, make improvements, and adjust where needed. Over time, that’s how we turn small lessons into big success.

Something to think about.
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Chris Farmer

Self fulfilling prophecy
Our lives are not shaped by what we want—they are shaped by what we believe. Our results come from our actions, which are influenced by our emotions, and emotions are driven by our beliefs.
We are judged on our results. Our job, income, lifestyle, and circumstances reflect them. If we want better results, we must take better actions.
The key question is: How do we improve our actions?

1. Gain Knowledge – Knowledge tells us what to do. If we know what we’re doing, we get better results. But many people know what to do and still don’t do it. Why?

2. Align Emotions with Knowledge – Logic alone isn’t enough. Our emotions must support our rational mind. Many people fail because their emotions override their logic.

Emotional intelligence means using emotions to our advantage, not our disadvantage.

Where Do Emotions Come From?
Not from external circumstances.
If they did, everyone in good situations would be happy, and everyone in bad ones would be miserable. But that’s not reality. Emotions come from within—specifically, from our beliefs and interpretations.

If we think we will win, we feel confident. If we think we will lose, we feel doubt. Our beliefs dictate our emotions, and emotions drive actions. If we want to improve results, we must change the way we think.

Discussion:
• Can you recall a time when your beliefs influenced your success or failure?
• How does self-doubt limit results?
• How can we use the self-fulfilling prophecy to our advantage?
Our beliefs shape our reality.

If we want to change our outcomes, we must first change our mindset and think about what actions we can take today that will make our future better than the past.

Time Is Precious

Time is our most valuable resource. Money lost can be earned again. Broken things can be fixed or replaced.
But time? Once it's gone, it's gone for good.

Every moment we spend—whether it’s working, learning, or simply enjoying life—changes our feelings and our future.

Wasting time is like throwing away opportunities that can never return. So, let's make today count. Spend time with those you love, focus on what matters, and take definite steps toward your goals.

Time waits for no one—use it wisely!