Paying attention to details can help increase retention and aid the appearance of having your act together. It also can help you regain control of the group after an activity without increased frustration or loss of voice! Here are some easy-to-implement interactive learning activities (ILA) for you:
No one can tell your story like you! If you're looking for a different way to drive home a point, whether it be in training or in sales, crafting a story around your experience is a tried and true way to do it-if you know how to do it. So, how should you start? And what should you remember?
This article talks about Don Kirkpatrick's retirement, gives a brief overview on what the Four Levels are and promotes an upcoming webinar on the Four Levels given by The Bob Pike Group.
Our two newest workshops, Capture the Content and Needs Assessment, will be piloted in December in Minneapolis. These one-day workshops will be offered at $395 each this one time only for the first 20 registrants. For more information on these workshops, follow the link.
Take a quick glance at our upcoming public workshops for November and December 2010 or click on dates further out. Some highlights include: boot camp in Tulsa for the first time; Bob Pike facilitating the Tampa, Fla., boot camp; and Webinars that Work, an engaging and interactive way to make your webinars more interesting!
Sales professionals seem to be a crew that actively seek out applications for technology. Emails I receive show me some strategies, techniques and factoids sales people are using to keep their pipelines filled, and I think these ideas have a lot of application for training. Why re-create the wheel when another industry has already found a better, faster, easier way to build, distribute and install the wheel?
A few tips I've seen recently you can easily use in training are below. I've also added some learning applications.
This is a great training opener you can use with just one participant. It's from the book One on One Training (one-on-one training) from Bob Pike, Lynn Solem and Dave Arch.
Are you creative,innovative? Do you want to be?
If you didn't attend our annual conference in September, you had a second chance to catch some quick training tips on Twitter. However, many of you haven't yet lifted off into the Twitterverse so you have yet another chance here to see more than 26 quick training tips and thoughts (less than 140 characters each) that were tweeted by The Bob Pike Group or others attending the conference.
Gio Livera has been in the "impossible" business for decades. As a magician, he makes what seems to be impossible, possible. But what does he do if someone tells him it can't be done?
