Tag: training

Losing at Tetris (and planning)

If you’ve ever played the computer game Tetris, you’ll know how it goes: things are fine at first. Blocks drop at a manageable pace, and you can take…

From great to transformative: training and workshops that stick

How do you run a great workshop or training day that really makes a difference to the way people work? The keys are ownership and reflection.  In my…

The magic moment when learning and teaching come alive

It is the moment I look for on my training courses. It is when participants switch from general interest in the topic or material to a moment of…

Training course – Introduction to Conceptual Design for Structural Engineers

This course, which I deliver at Constructivist for the Institution of Structural Engineers is my longest running conceptual design training course. It is an introductory course, which splits…

Reflections on video selfie training

Yesterday at Think Up I ran a workshop training engineers in how to use selfie movies to tell communicate to people about engineering. The aim of the workshop…