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Creative Training Techniques®
August 28, 2013
Train-the-Trainer Tips for Making Handouts More Interactive
QUESTION: What ideas would you have for making handouts more fun and interactive?
Creative Training Techniques®
August 27, 2013
Two Birds, One Stone: $25 Online Training Series
Online training in a format such as a Webex meeting or webinar is different than in a ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 27, 2013
Myth Buster: A Revisiting Activity from SCORE! 3
Use this revisiting activity from the new SCORE! 3 for Enhanced Training Results to combat ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 27, 2013
A New Way to do Distance Learning
Next week, we kick off our 20th annual Creative Training Techniques conference. It's ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 27, 2013
The 4G Coaching Model
Before the twenty-first century, the term coaching was not used much in the business world. ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Women: The New Workforce
With so much discussion on the large numbers of employees expecting to retire in the next ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Movie Facts…Sort Of
Movies depend on “suspension of disbelief” for us to get into the plotline and thoughtlessly ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Been Listening Bingo
Creative Exercise for Meetings, Webinars and Seminars Do you keep falling asleep in ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
FIND-A-WORD BINGO [Revisit]
Purpose: This exercise provides a fun and yummy way to review content.
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Opener: Silly Hats
Purpose: Openers are key in setting the stage for what is to come and a great way for ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Closer: Crossword Puzzle Race
One challenge every trainer faces is training transfer—making sure your learners actually ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Spicing Up a Webinar
Making Distance Learning Interactive Betsy Allen directed a webinar while at Training’s Tech ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Interactive Training Makes a Difference | Letters to the Editor
Wonder if tips from The Bob Pike Group really work? Read on.
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
The Benefits of Podcasting
Ahhhh, podcasting…the next great idea in on-the-go training or training to a captive market! ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
The Domino Effect | Letters to the Editor
When trainers learn more effective and interactive techniques for helping transfer their ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Business Forecasting: Is the Sky Falling?
“The sky is falling!” Chicken Little shrieked. When it comes to business forecasting, you ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Linking Training Objectives to Measures of Training Success
Before training evaluation begins, program objectives must be developed. Program objectives ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Mentoring: An Essential Tool for Encouraging Personal Growth
In ancient Greece, Odysseus entrusted his friend Mentor with the education of his son. Since ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
We Need to Talk
Recent research reveals that human interaction is an essential knowledge source for expert ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Stop Starting with Smiles and Begin with Business Outcomes: Results-Based Integrated Design
Repeated studies over the past 70 years have challenged the impact of training. When tragedy ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Maximize Retention by Matching Delivery Tools to Students’ Learning Styles
We are all looking for ways to train more cost-effectively and time-efficiently. We’re using ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Questions To Consider When Doing Participant-Centered Training
In designing participant-centered training, many instructors use questions to help process ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Getting Manager Buy-In
Managers before training have the number one responsibility for making sure training sticks; ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Asked and Answered
When someone asks if you have experience in instructional design, what is it that they are ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 26, 2013
Positive Immediate Feedback from "Sendors" | Letters to the Editor
I wanted to update you on my most recent training initiative since attending your workshop.
Creative Training Techniques®
August 22, 2013
Psychedelic Ways to Make a Point
Lora Haasl, Supervisor of Instructional Innovation & Technology Lab, West Texas A&M ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 22, 2013
Your Ear Knows
Adapt this puzzler to your content. Once the puzzle has been worked out, use the activity to ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 22, 2013
Quick Clips for Fun and Effective Training Transfer
Sometimes showing is much more effective than telling. Almost every teacher or trainer has ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 22, 2013
Determining Levels for Training Evaluations
There are generally considered five different levels at which a training or learning ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 21, 2013
Purposeful PowerPoint® Pointers: Part Two of Three
STOP using PowerPoint as a delivery mechanism! It is a support media for your message.
Creative Training Techniques®
August 21, 2013
Adventures in Websites, Blogging and Podcasting
It all started when my beloved laptop of seven years started to slow down and I decided it ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 21, 2013
Participant-Centered Purposeful PowerPoint® Pointers: Part Three of Three
In this last of three articles designed to compel you to start putting the point back in ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 21, 2013
Why Process When You Can Lecture?
Seen the latest CareerBuilder.com commercial? The one where the training department uses ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 21, 2013
A Bakers Dozen (+1) Design Disasters
Designing your training is one of the first critical steps in engaging your participants. If ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 21, 2013
More Trainer Toolbox Ideas
Kelley Phipps, a senior trainer at Indymac Bank, F.S.B. in California, submitted her idea ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 20, 2013
Odd Man Out Puzzler
Most presenters and trainers rarely, if ever, open a presentation; they just start. They ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 20, 2013
Purposeful PowerPoint® Pointers: Part One of Three
This is the first of three articles designed to compel you to start putting the point back ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 20, 2013
Using the Close to Maximize Transfer
What’s wrong with the way many training programs close? There may be no close; people are ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 20, 2013
Helping Others Solve Problems: 3 Reasons Why These Attempts Fail
Ever tried to help a friend with a problem they were having? Did all attempts to help turn ...
Performance Consulting
August 20, 2013
Are We Trainers, Consultants, Performance Coaches or What?
It seems every 12-18 months, a new term will come along. Sometimes it's something new that ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 20, 2013
Considering the Generation Gap in e-learning
Technology-based learning (e-learning) is becoming rampant in the training industry for good ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 20, 2013
Creative Training Tools
Tip #45 Build Listening Skills with Dominos To demonstrate the importance of listening ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 20, 2013
Trainer’s Emergency Toolkit
You've probably been caught in a high-stress situation—perhaps a tear in the seam of your ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 19, 2013
Review and Revisit: Improving the Outcome of Your Training
Training, and reviewing, doesn’t have to be dull…but it’s so easy to make it that way. And ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 19, 2013
End of Training Evaluation: Let’s Start at the Very Beginning
Level Four training is where you want to be when you evaluate training…but if you haven’t ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 19, 2013
Letters to the Editor
Hi Bob: I enjoyed your insights on Military training and the South West Asia action. The one ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 19, 2013
Designing for Different Learning Styles
Can you recall conversations verbatim? Or is it easier for you to remember on what part of ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 19, 2013
Creative Training Tips: Learning Styles
The following Creative Training tips work well with at least two learning styles. The three ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 16, 2013
Focus Your Team
The ability of individuals to operate as a highly effective team is vital for achieving ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 15, 2013
Creative Training Tips from Readers
The following training tips were submitted by readers of The Bob Pike Group’s eZine.
Creative Training Techniques®
August 15, 2013
Out of the Ugliness of War...Comes a Useful Metaphor for Trainers
For the six weeks of the Persian Gulf War, and for quite some time during its build up, ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 07, 2013
Spotlight: Ayako Nakamura
Ayako Nakamura had been a trainer in Japan for companies like Hilton and Proctor and Gamble ...
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