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Been Listening Bingo November 29, 2007 • By Liz Wheeler Creative Exercise for Meetings, Webinars and Seminars
Do you keep falling asleep in meetings, webinars and seminars? What about those long and boring conference calls?
Here's a way to change that:
Before (or during) your next meeting, webinar, or conference call, prepare your "Been Listening Bingo" card by drawing a square 5"x5" dividing it into columns - five across and five down. That will give you 25 one-inch blocks.
Write one of the words/phrases/concepts you plan to talk about in each block.
Your audience checks off the appropriate block when they hear one of those words/phrases.
When a participant gets five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, they quickly stand up or raise their hand and holler enthusiastically, "Been Listening Bingo!" They then relate the five items they heard and why they checked those boxes!
Testimonials from satisfied “Bingo" players:
"I had been in the meeting for only five minutes when I won the first time."
--Jack W., Boston
"My attention span at webinars has improved dramatically once we started using BLB."
--Alice D., Florida
"What a gas! Online or in person meetings will never be the same for me. It is a challenge to try to be the first winner!"
--Bill G., New York City New Study shows Corporate Social Networking Trends in Talent Management
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Stress from a computer screen? If learners are motivated, they retain more information. But can you extrinsically motivate your session attendees? Is it possible?
“While you can’t make your participants be motivated, you can create a motivating environment,” said Becky Pluth, vice president of training and development at The Bob Pike Group. Research shows that interacting with your learners “is one of the most powerful factors in promoting learning” while “interactions among learners is another” (Angelo 1993). And teachers who present the information in a dynamic manner and display a genuine interest in what they Getting people to use learning resources in the company library can be tricky, Kathleen Miller-Buettner and Susan Hayley-Gates say.
Their library has books, videos and audio tapes on communication skills, management skills, balancing work and home lives, and dozens of other topics.
But, as in many organizations, the materials once went mostly unused.
To encourage corporate library use—and learning—the training department initiated a TOM (theme of the month) Club. Membership is free. Each month has a topical theme – effective feedback, industry information and the like. Trainers, however, don’t disclose what the month’s theme is. Instead they post clues throughout the office and via email on the first day of each month. Employees guess the theme, placing their guess in one of the special TOM Club raffle boxes around the workplace. |
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