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Gamification
November 18, 2013
Lucky 13: Colonial Clues
Sample Standard: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping colonial ...
Gamification
November 18, 2013
Gravity Guesswork
Standard: Knows the kinds of forces that exist between objects and within atoms. Understands ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 18, 2013
3 Tips for Joyful Classrooms
If you were to ask students for a list of adjectives that describe school, I doubt joyful ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 18, 2013
Learner-Centered Activities: Prejudice at Work, Formation Fantasy
Prejudice at Work Sample Standard: The student understands the impact of the American civil ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 18, 2013
Trainer Tip: Group Gallery
At the end of a content block or session day, give each small group a piece of blank ...
Gamification
November 18, 2013
Trainer Tip: A Fun Word Game
Do you love word games? Here is one that trainers can use with adult participants to review ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 18, 2013
RCTS Goes Global!
Research-based Creative Teaching Strategies had its first international presentation in ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 18, 2013
Welcome to Our Global Partner, Ken Gimm
Ken Gimm, of the Korean Leadership Center in Seoul, South Korea, has been a Bob Pike Group ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 18, 2013
Certified Partner Ken Gimm Wins Pikes Peak Award
The Korean Leadership Center, under the guidance of Ken Gimm, won the Pike’s Peak award from ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Back to Boredom?
Back to school doesn’t mean back to boredom for students now that educators realize the ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Location, Location, Location!
Sample Standard: Locate, describe and explain places, regions and features on the Earth. ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Do You See What I See?
Sample Standard: Describe the anatomy and localized function of given brain areas Grade ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Closing with Impact
All too often trainers fail to close their sessions with impact. Instead they opt for ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Deal Me a MEAN Hand
Sample Standard: Understands and applies the concepts of range and central tendency (mean, ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Questioning Technique
Grade Levels: 4-12 Time: 10-15 minutes Materials: Index cards (1 per student) Group size: ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Shoes That Were Made for Walking
At some point during the class you ask learners to find their “sole mate”—the person in the ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Learner-Centered Activities From Priscilla Shumway
Learner-Centered Activities Graffiti Board: A fun revisit or closing activity that helps ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Predicting the Future
Purpose: This exercise is a closer that promotes the transfer of training back to the job. ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
I Dream of Genie
Sample Standard: The student understands economic systems with an emphasis on the United ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Bob Pike Trainings SCORE For Educators
As a professional development provider, I become anxious preparing for training because I ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
The Secret for Success: Add Extra Value to Your Training
If you’ve been to McDonald’s lately, you may have noticed its shakes have a different look. ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Feed Their Brains by EATing
Have you ever taught a concept your students just couldn’t grasp? Or thought they had until ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 14, 2013
Choosing To Teach With Good Humor
Why should educators choose to integrate humor into all aspects of their teaching? It’s the ...
Gamification
November 14, 2013
Mystery Word
Select a vocabulary word that is pertinent to the content of the lesson. Write a “mystery” ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
Image Does Not Say 1000 Words
We should give up the false belief that any image says more than a thousand words. We are so ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
Training and Learning Trends
If there’s one single learning trend that is most disruptive in the way learning is done, ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
Vocab Jingles
Sample Standard: US Government and Citizenship: Students will define and provide examples of ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
Is This English?
Sample Standard: Use reference aids such as glossary, dictionary, and available technology ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
Central Ky. Special Education Cooperative SCORES with New Teachers
At Central Ky. Special Education Cooperative, a new philosophy of training is emerging. ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
Training Your Way Out of the Downturn
There has been a lot of press recently about the role of training in supporting the recovery ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
Dumb-dumb Bullets and the Purpose of PowerPoint
Several months ago, a reference to the article “Essay: Dumb-dumb bullets. As a ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
Training with Facebook and Twitter
A reader asks: Do you have any information on social media and training? Our company is ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
Master Participant-Centered Trainer Certification
For over 30 years, clients have been applying The Bob Pike Group’s Participant-Centered ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
Can You Control the Weather?
"I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
Tips for Coaching
Before the twenty-first century, the term coaching was not used much in the business world. ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
TEOTWAWKI
TEOTWAWKI is an acronym for, “The end of the world as we know it.” R.E.M.’s song by the same ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
On the Job Training Tips for Consistent Results
Employees who don’t “get” or understand their jobs cost US and UK companies over $37 billion ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 13, 2013
People Remember 10%, 20%...Oh Really?
A note from Bob Pike: Who said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 12, 2013
Creative Use of Polling During Webinars
Because you can’t see your learners during a webinar, you need to utilize other methods of ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 12, 2013
The Why Behind The How: The Research Behind Participant-Centered Training Part 1
Some of Bob Pike’s foundations for participant-centered training are his 90/20/10 rule for ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 12, 2013
Continuous Improvement Tips and Tricks
For those of us who train for a living, each year brings new challenges. For example, we ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 11, 2013
The Introverted Leader: Thriving in the Extroverted Business World
In today’s extroverted business world, introverts can feel ignored, overlooked, and ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 11, 2013
Free Bob Pike Group Resources on the Web
The Bob Pike Group has a lot of free resources available to you, and we want to make sure ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 11, 2013
Don't Give Up on Your Aging Boomers Just Yet
Adapted from their new book, "Generations, Inc." Despite the recent headlines about the ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 11, 2013
The Trouble with Personality Tests
Personality tests are a popular component of many organizations’ hiring processes. As these ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 11, 2013
Takeaways NOT Throwaways: Handouts without a Shelf Life
What do Hormel’s canned Spam and good training handouts have in common? They both have an ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 11, 2013
The Why Behind The How: The Research Behind Participant-Centered Training Part 3
One of Bob Pike’s foundations for participant-centered training is the use of closers, ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 11, 2013
The Why Behind The How: The Research Behind Participant-Centered Training Part 4
Bob Pike, in his Creative Training Techniques Handbook and in the design of his workshops ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 07, 2013
Profiling Successful Salespeople: Myths, Folklore…and Progress
With the world economy now in an uptick, many sales leaders are coming out of the slump with ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 07, 2013
Trainers Must Exercise Power Carefully
Competition and power struggles between and within organizations are an inevitable part of ...
Presentations
November 06, 2013
Training Opener for a Single Participant
At the annual Bob Pike Group conference, one attendee asked the following question. Because ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 06, 2013
Baby Stepping into Participant-Centered Training
Norfolk Naval Shipyard [NNSY] was named one of this year’s Pike’s Peak Award recipients ...
Gamification
November 06, 2013
Little Things that Make a Big Difference: Interactive Learning Activities
Paying attention to details can help increase retention and aid the appearance of having ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 06, 2013
Does Social Networking Have a Place in Training?
Can trainers justify the use of social media like Twitter and Facebook during their daily ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 06, 2013
Helpful Training Tweets from Our Fall Conference
If you didn’t attend our annual conference in September, you had a second chance to catch ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 06, 2013
Become the Best Storyteller You Can Be!
No one can tell your story like you! If you’re looking for a different way to drive home a ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 06, 2013
Achieving the Impossible in Training
“Just because it looks impossible doesn’t mean it is,” said world-class magician Giovanni ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 05, 2013
Questions I’m No Longer Asking
I strive to strike a reasonable balance between reading blogs, books, and peer-reviewed ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 05, 2013
5 Reasons You Don't Need Training
When management finds that staff is not engaging in work behaviors desired by the ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 05, 2013
He Said, She Said: Communicating Between Genders at Work
At work, men and women use strategies in communicating with each other that the opposite sex ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 05, 2013
Diversity Training: A Key Learning Opportunity
Smart companies look for ‘learning opportunities’ in least expected places Here's an ugly ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 05, 2013
A Fighter Pilot's Guide to Effective Communication
Two long minutes passed since we had changed radio frequencies and I hadn't heard from my ...
Creative Training Techniques®
November 05, 2013
America’s Trillion Dollar Training Problem
In the last few years, we in the U.S. have all heard a lot about "trillion dollar" problems ...
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