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From Teacher to Manager · 1Y ago

Training project management online

Having been training project management skills face-to-face for some time, through the Fundamentals of Project Management course I have been doing this training in a purely online context of late (see this page for details) Obviously face to face course provision is quite different from online, but
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From Teacher to Manager · 1Y ago

Project Management: What you need to be able to do

Having established a case for project management as a general skill (I like to think I have made that case), what exactly are the skills that a project manager (or indeed anyone involved in projects) needs to have, and what do you need to be able to do? Basically you need to be good at [...]
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From Teacher to Manager · 1Y ago

Project Management week. Introduction

At the IATEFL conference  in two weeks from today I will be doing a workshop about project management and specifically training project management online.  This week (here) I will endeavour to create some context for that workshop and discuss some of the things that I will be talking about there. On
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From Teacher to Manager · 1Y ago

Natural disasters and the LTO manager

The second in my unexpected (even to me) series about natural disasters in ELT, and to tack on to the previous post and bring us back to managing language teaching organisations… Over the course of the last year I have met and/or worked with 3 language school managers who have recently had to deal w
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From Teacher to Manager · 1Y ago

Natural disasters and the roving trainer

After  a fair amount of consideration, I’ve decided that I’d like to use this space not only to talk about management issues but also to talk a little about some of the issues that face freelance trainers/consultants etc in our field. The former is what I teach and write about, the latter is what I
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From Teacher to Manager · 1Y ago

2011: Step up, steeply? Or La Peste?

So, now seems like as good a time as any to actually return to this too-long-dormant blog, being a New Year and all that. I’ll spare you the apologies, the excuses and the hand wringing over my long absence, but just know that they exist, bottled up. It is the done thing in pretty much [...]
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From Teacher to Manager · 2Y ago

How to be a Bad Manager

A few weeks ago I did my first ever Pecha Kucha at an event in Moscow.  For those who are not sure, pecha kucha is a presentation format in which you have 20 slides each of which is on screen for 20 seconds exactly.  The presenter’s job is to do the resultant 6 minute 40 [...]
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From Teacher to Manager · 2Y ago

My TV debut

Harrogate Online video of yours truly discussing ELT Management stuff
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From Teacher to Manager · 2Y ago

6 ways to survive the crisis with PD

6 Ways to offer cheap professional development
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From Teacher to Manager · 2Y ago

Harry Potter and educational leadership

The links between Harry Potter, ELT, and educational leadership
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