Use this quick, five-minute webinar interactivity to establish a learning community, introduce a new concept, or refocus the learner.

Have you caught the webinar wave? More and more educators are harnessing the power of the webinar format to reach a larger audience at a lower cost than classroom experiences. Unfortunately, many webinar hosts fail to create interactive sessions to keep the attention of their participants which lowers the impact on learning and retention. Follow these tips to create webinars that wow.

Find Your Match: Cause & Effect Sample Standard: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping colonial history and settlement in the United States. Grade: 4 I Describe Standard: Identify character traits for a specific literary figure. Grade Level: 3-4

I honestly thought adult education was "my thing" and believed on a 1-10 scale that I fell in the "above average" range. I now realize that I was a pretty solid example of "edutainment" in action. How did attending a Research-based Creative Teaching Strategies workshop change this participant's training modus operandi?

Each year, The Bob Pike Group accepts nominations for trainers, their departments or companies who have made a commitment to participant-centered training and achieved dramatic results. The winners of this award, up to six different entities may win, receive one free registration for our annual conference and up to three half-price registrations for the year they accept the award. The winners are then recognized during a special luncheon during the annual conference. If you know of someone who has accomplished an amazing increase in content-retention, a renewed commitment to participant-centered training and increased attendance because of this commitment, nominate them for a Pike's Peak Performance Award. The nomination deadline is August 9, 2010. Details are below

Because you can't see your learners during a webinar, you need to utilize other methods of gauging learner energy and motivation. While polling is a great and speedy way for the presenter to "see" what is going on with participants, it can also be overused if you don't switch up the ways in which you poll your participants. Below are a few guidelines for how best to create and use polling for quiz questions, multiple-choice questions, matching items and post-testing.

Below is a sample of the great information and training tips you would have seen if you were following us on Twitter: When prepping for presentation, type and do word count. We speak an average of 125-150 words per minute multiplied by the number of minutes for the talk = number of words MAX (Originally posted by @GinaSchreck) If you were getting our news and notes in your Facebook stream, you would have seen: The world's most AMAZING PowerPoint slide ever! Very colorful and, while it has a lot of info, conveys little! Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com

In today's extroverted business world, introverts can feel ignored, overlooked, and misunderstood. In fact, according to my research-a two-and-a-half-year national study of introverted professionals-four out of five introverts say extroverts are more likely to get ahead in their workplace. What's more, over 40 percent say they would like to change their introverted tendencies, but don't know where or how to begin. The good news? Introversion can be managed. There is no one-size-fits-all strategy, but with time and practice, introverted pros can learn to build on their quiet strength and succeed. What is introversion and how can you manage it?

As a company, The Bob Pike Group uses brain-based research to create our training principles and promote our participant-centered methods with research. Here is part three of a four-part series that gives you the why behind our instructor-led, participant-centered how.

What do researchers actually know about how the brain works? And should this information have any impact on the learning environment? Brain-research has experienced a knowledge explosion in the last two decades; what we know now shows every element of your environment will affect your learning outcomes. What elements should you consider while designing training to maximize retention based on this research?