When even God rested on the seventh day, you know taking some time for our mortal selves to rejuvenate is critical for sanity and for being in top form.
Tish Felts of Transocean received the coveted Pike's Peak award this year for her implementation of participant-centered training methods in her IT courses while Priscilla Shumway received the Pike's Peak Performer award for the second year in a row.
Here are some brief thoughts and training tips culled from our sessions at our conference held in Minneapolis in September. If you want to follow us on Twitter, you can go to http://twitter.com/TheBobPikeGroup.
Want to know what you missed? Or perhaps you were there and want to see how great you looked in that photo we took of you? Here's a slideshow of almost everything we did...and a good time was had by all!
Here's a quick exercise that gets people moving while visually demonstrating how important it is to get everyone moving in the same, and right, direction.
The tortoise and the hare-the classic story about how the slow and methodical nature of one beats out the brash and unpaced fervor of the other. A modern day version of this story might be the annual Boston Marathon, a great example with application for implementing change.
Sackcloth, ashes, and a sullen face or perhaps clothing made of camelhair and a diet of locusts is how some seem to picture the traits of humility. How do you define humility? Is it always shrugging off a compliment or downplaying credit when someone says, "Great job!"?
On the eve of our conference, I wanted to put together my best ideas for how to make our annual conference the best one ever for you. As I've been to a few of these myself-oh, say 17 of them-I have some ideas on how you can maximize this trip outside of the sessions.
I'm getting excited!
We're getting closer-only two weeks away-from our 18th annual Training and Performance Improvement Conference.
While each conference does have its tensions-I tend to procrastinate and obviously this deadline for handouts and other details is looming-each conference also has so much fresh thinking and energy.
Here's a great, nonthreatening way to include shy folks when you need volunteers.
