Need to add a little foshizzle to your training session? Use this object lesson from Bob Pike Group Senior Training Consultant Doug McCallum. You'll need a glass of water, one Advil and an Alka-Seltzer tablet.

In McCallum's example, he talks about how training can be dull and lifeless if all we have is the content. He illustrates this by putting an Alka-Seltzer tablet into a glass of water. What the audience doesn't realize is that an Advil tablet was already at the bottom of the glass. Because of the interaction between the two medicines, the Alka-Seltzer will not do anything when added. "In training," he said, "we add the spark." From here, invite audience participation to add other content-related learning points from the exercise.