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Come on Baby—Do the Locomotion!

CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fla., is a transportation company providing rail, ...
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Lead Like a Sherpa: Inspire Your Team to the Summit

If you believe that an organization’s success is as much the will of the people as it is the ...
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Twitter Tutorial

Even if you don’t grasp the hype surrounding twitter, it doesn’t hurt to be well-rounded and ...
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Tech Tool: Facebook Applications for Learning

There are many ways to use Facebook for both learning and productivity, and a number of apps ...
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Meetings and How to Do Them Right

Bestselling authors Mike Song, Tim Burress, and Vicki Halsey outline ways to cut through the ...
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Mehrabian Nights

Here’s an urban myth about communication that’s harder to swallow than a whale. It’s one of ...
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Offbeat: The new trainer's dictionary

Would you describe yourself as a workafrolic, capable of entertrainment of the highest ...
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The Importance of Human Capital Analytics

Organizations cannot compete effectively - at least for long - without aligning their people ...
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Top Ten Slide Tips by Garr Reynolds

1. Keep it simple PowerPoint uses slides with a horizontal or "Landscape" orientation. The ...
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Seven Ways to Add More Variety in Your Training

Finding ways to change-up your training can be difficult, especially if some of the ways ...
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Learning Activities to Engage Participants, Cement Knowledge

In our Instructional Design workshop, where we help our learners modify their own workshops ...
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NCOES Receives Prestigious Award for Training Redesign

LZ Harrison and his staff were recently recognized with the Pike's Peak Performance Award ...
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Train-the-Trainer Boot Camp a Success for Recent Graduate

Do you need a compelling reason to attend our 21st Annual Creative Training Techniques ...
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Don't Let Menial Details Steal Your Opening

How you open your training session can be a critical factor in how much your learners retain ...
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Using Music to Solidify Learning

Why is it so easy to remember the words to our favorite songs even years after listening to ...
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Can You Do It?

Very often in our jobs and our lives, we believe that we have to “do it myself,” as a young ...
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My Life is a Song

There are times when a particular song seems as if it were written for us. When these songs ...
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Flu Review: A Telepathic Trick That Gets Participants Involved and Interacting in Review

A telepathic trick that gets participants involved and interacting in review Sometimes ...
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Three Quick Tips for a Webinar with a WOW Factor

There is a huge push in the corporate world, and the non-profit realm as well, to save cash ...
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Checking Your Document’s Readability

When you’ve completed your leader notes, conference blurbs or research for a conference ...
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Need a Visual or Object Lesson for Removing Obstacles?

Deborah Schonfeld uses this template to create simple boxes. She puts clip art bricks onto ...
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The Carrot Principle

The charismatic and shamelessly self-promoting presentation of Chester Elton’s The Carrot ...
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Asked and Answered: Class Size and SMEs

Asked and Answered A reader asks: I am trying to develop a position for our organization's ...
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What Followers Want From Leaders

The “vision thing” pales in comparison to instilling trust, compassion, stability, and hope
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Creative Training Techniques are Universal in Their Application

Without risk there is generally scant reward. That truism hit home when I was invited to ...
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Creative Training Techniques: The Beginning and the Fundamentals

Increasing Training Transfer while Maintaining Classroom Control The purpose of any training ...
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Train the Trainer Certification: A Way to Get Ahead of the Pack

Companies are beginning to loosen the purse strings and are hiring once again. Industry ...
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Creative Training Techniques Work Again

Glowing Reviews: How NNSY Implemented Participant-Centered Learning In 2006, personnel from ...
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Webinar Tips

The Bob Pike Group has been working with several clients lately on how to transfer content ...
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Creative Training Techniques Help Out with Design

When to Use Results-based Design: Marathon Case Study In 2009, following the investigation ...
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Tips for Effective Presentation Introductions

Asked and Answered: Best Practice Guidelines for Introductions Asked: Are there any best ...
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Fun Minute Manager

The Fun Minute Manager, a simple, fictionalized story, provides an engaging tale in which ...
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Manager Training: A Tip or Two

Send Vital Material to Support Staff of Management Trainees The manager registered for your ...
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Flip Chart Tip

Flip Chart Spell Check Perhaps you’re an incredible presenter, very comfortable building ...
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How to Motivate Adult Students

How do you motivate adults? If learners are motivated, they retain more information. But can ...
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Creative Training Ideas for Company Resources

Getting people to use learning resources in the company library can be tricky, Kathleen ...
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Business Presentation Skills Workshop

Better Equipping Managers and High Potential Employees The Bob Pike Group is working ...
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Becky Pike Pluth Named One of Training's Top Young Young Trainers

Becky Pluth, Bob Pike Group CEO, was named one of Training magazine’s Top Young Trainers for ...
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Review Activity for Training: Hollywood Squares Takeoff Recaps

Hollywood Squares Takeoff Recaps Long Sessions Kathleen Burke-Scheffler uses this review ...
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Creative Training Techniques Work for Sales Coaching

After The Bob Pike Group did an on-site workshop with Direct General in St. Charles, Mo., ...
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Training in Paradise: Korea Leadership Center

The Korea Learning Resort is located one hour away from central Seoul. Located in the ...
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Dealing with Difficult Participants Activity

Purpose: To understand behaviors of difficult participants and brainstorm strategies for ...
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Training Request Forms: Where are They?

Asked: Can I find already-designed training request forms? If so, where?
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Presentation Skills Tip: Slowing Down the Fast Talkers

Asked and Answered: Fast Talking Asked: I'm looking for an activity to use for instructors ...
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The Power of a Positive Attitude

How you think does make a difference. Written in Sanskrit over 2500 years ago we find these ...
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Career Change Advice: Why Not Look Within Your Own Company?

Zac Efron, teen heartthrob, turned down the lead role in the remake of Footloose because he ...
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CEUs for Bob Pike Group's Courses

Bob Pike Group Becomes Authorized Provider of CEUs I find myself torn when I go shopping. On ...
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New Trainer Becomes Pro with Creative Training Techniques

Finding My Passion: Applying Boot Camp Basics After recently attending a two-day Boot Camp ...
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Creative Tips for Computer Based Training

Becky Pike Pluth previously presented on how to design and deliver participant-centered ...
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Getting Support of Training from Management

Asked: When is the manager’s support most critical for the best outcomes in the transfer of ...
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Effective Presentation Tips

Unconventional Wisdom: Don’t Just Tell Have you heard this purported “best” method of ...
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Flip Chart Ideas

Flip Chart Cheat Sheets A great flip chart tip I learned years ago was to write information ...
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Bob Pike's Training Answers

When other trainers have the chance to ask Bob Pike anything they want about his experience ...
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How Many Objectives Is Too Many?

Dear Becky: I'm still on a “high” from all the great sessions I attended last week at the ...
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Training Preparation Time and Co-Facilitation Guidelines Q and A

Asked: My training department is looking for help identifying best practices for both ...
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Collective Wisdom

How can you continue the learning after the class is done? Here is an activity that gets ...
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Making Training Safe

Betsy Allen Reflecting on how you like to learn reveals insights into good and poor ...
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Creative Training Techniques Work

I thought you might be interested in hearing a success story from your Train-the-Trainer ...
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Reduce Projector Downtime with Life Saving Bulb Tips

Reduce Projector Downtime with Bulb Life Saving Tips Ever get an LCD projector at your site, ...
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PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts and Design Tips

Knowing that PowerPoint (love it or hate it) is a tool of our trade, here are some little ...
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Staying in the Game

The message came from Human Resources. There's nothing to worry about with the newly ...
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How New Employees Learn

What does research tell us about adult learners and how to best work with them?
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Training Tips to Take the Pain Out of Training

Training is tough work at times, especially when one or more of these aggravating problems ...
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Storytelling for Training

Utilizing the Power Tool of the Caveman “Sam Walton was a great storyteller,” said Lee ...
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Social Media for Teachers

Teachers: Resourcing is Not Cheating! Gone are the days of recreating the wheel every time ...
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Tips for Computer Based Training

Creative Training Tip for Computer Based Training When doing classroom instruction for ...
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Modeling the Flipped Classroom

A newer trend in education is called the flipped classroom. Some teachers are sending ...
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In the News: Pike's Peak Military Winner's Strategy Explored

LZ Harrison and Wanda Blackmon received one of the 2013 Pike's Peak Performance awards on ...
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