Training managers? David Hardison and Phil Cowan offer ideas on how to best communicate with them while reducing their training anxiety.
Need to add a little foshizzle to your training session? Use this little 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.
Asked: Are there any best practice guidelines on how to write an introduction? What should a good introduction contain, how long should it be, etc.? Becky Pluth responds...
You've got good materials and a demonstrable need for the training session you plan. Is that enough to ensure a vital program? Maybe, if you're lucky.
I like to add one more thing to my checklist: A session should be not just pertinent and interesting but complete. One way I make sure a course has a solid pulse is to treat it with CPR...
If everyone were the same, training would be so much easier, wouldn't it? You wouldn't have to account for learning preferences or need to plan a varied lunch menu. There would be no interpersonal conflict, and everyone would walk into the classroom prepared, ready to learn and not obsessing over the speeding ticket they just got. Since this is hardly realistic, let's look at the value in those "little" differences.
As we start a new year, where is your focus? Is it on the potentials and possibilities? Or is it on the problems?
Asked: When is the manager's support most critical for the best outcomes in the transfer of learning? Before, during or after training?
Using the classic Hollywood celebrity version of tic-tac-toe gets many learners participating while revisiting key content from the prior workshop.
As trainers, we don't follow maps to buried treasure and attaining what we seek is never so easy as finding an X that marks the spot, as Indiana Jones so memorably told his students in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In the adventurous spirit of Harrison Ford, our 2012 annual Training and Performance Consulting Conference theme is Indiana Bob and the Kingdom of Crystal Clear Training.
"The single most important skill to sharpen for career success and life satisfaction is the skill of speaking effectively in public," said Rich Meiss, senior training consultant at TBPG. As one client said, "There's a wide difference between a person's competence and a person's effectiveness based on their ability to communicate effectively." The Bob Pike Group is working meticulously to create a dynamic suite of programs to develop managers and high potential employees. One of these programs is our recently refined Business Presentation Skills workshop.
