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Gamification
October 31, 2013
Come on Baby—Do the Locomotion!
CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fla., is a transportation company providing rail, ...
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October 31, 2013
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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October 31, 2013
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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October 31, 2013
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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October 31, 2013
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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October 31, 2013
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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October 31, 2013
Offbeat: The new trainer's dictionary
Would you describe yourself as a workafrolic, capable of entertrainment of the highest ...
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October 31, 2013
The Importance of Human Capital Analytics
Organizations cannot compete effectively - at least for long - without aligning their people ...
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October 31, 2013
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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October 31, 2013
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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October 30, 2013
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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October 30, 2013
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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October 30, 2013
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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October 30, 2013
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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October 30, 2013
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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October 29, 2013
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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October 29, 2013
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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October 29, 2013
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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October 29, 2013
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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October 29, 2013
Checking Your Document’s Readability
When you’ve completed your leader notes, conference blurbs or research for a conference ...
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October 29, 2013
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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October 29, 2013
The Carrot Principle
The charismatic and shamelessly self-promoting presentation of Chester Elton’s The Carrot ...
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October 29, 2013
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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October 29, 2013
What Followers Want From Leaders
The “vision thing” pales in comparison to instilling trust, compassion, stability, and hope
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October 29, 2013
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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October 29, 2013
Creative Training Techniques: The Beginning and the Fundamentals
Increasing Training Transfer while Maintaining Classroom Control The purpose of any training ...
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October 28, 2013
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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October 28, 2013
Creative Training Techniques Work Again
Glowing Reviews: How NNSY Implemented Participant-Centered Learning In 2006, personnel from ...
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October 28, 2013
Webinar Tips
The Bob Pike Group has been working with several clients lately on how to transfer content ...
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October 28, 2013
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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October 28, 2013
Tips for Effective Presentation Introductions
Asked and Answered: Best Practice Guidelines for Introductions Asked: Are there any best ...
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October 28, 2013
Fun Minute Manager
The Fun Minute Manager, a simple, fictionalized story, provides an engaging tale in which ...
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October 28, 2013
Manager Training: A Tip or Two
Send Vital Material to Support Staff of Management Trainees The manager registered for your ...
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October 28, 2013
Flip Chart Tip
Flip Chart Spell Check Perhaps you’re an incredible presenter, very comfortable building ...
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October 28, 2013
How to Motivate Adult Students
How do you motivate adults? If learners are motivated, they retain more information. But can ...
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October 28, 2013
Creative Training Ideas for Company Resources
Getting people to use learning resources in the company library can be tricky, Kathleen ...
Presentations
October 21, 2013
Business Presentation Skills Workshop
Better Equipping Managers and High Potential Employees The Bob Pike Group is working ...
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October 21, 2013
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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October 21, 2013
Review Activity for Training: Hollywood Squares Takeoff Recaps
Hollywood Squares Takeoff Recaps Long Sessions Kathleen Burke-Scheffler uses this review ...
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October 21, 2013
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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October 21, 2013
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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October 21, 2013
Dealing with Difficult Participants Activity
Purpose: To understand behaviors of difficult participants and brainstorm strategies for ...
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October 21, 2013
Training Request Forms: Where are They?
Asked: Can I find already-designed training request forms? If so, where?
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October 21, 2013
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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October 21, 2013
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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October 17, 2013
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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October 17, 2013
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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October 17, 2013
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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October 17, 2013
Creative Tips for Computer Based Training
Becky Pike Pluth previously presented on how to design and deliver participant-centered ...
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October 17, 2013
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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October 17, 2013
Effective Presentation Tips
Unconventional Wisdom: Don’t Just Tell Have you heard this purported “best” method of ...
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October 17, 2013
Flip Chart Ideas
Flip Chart Cheat Sheets A great flip chart tip I learned years ago was to write information ...
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October 17, 2013
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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October 17, 2013
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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October 17, 2013
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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October 17, 2013
Collective Wisdom
How can you continue the learning after the class is done? Here is an activity that gets ...
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October 17, 2013
Making Training Safe
Betsy Allen Reflecting on how you like to learn reveals insights into good and poor ...
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October 16, 2013
Creative Training Techniques Work
I thought you might be interested in hearing a success story from your Train-the-Trainer ...
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October 16, 2013
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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October 16, 2013
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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October 16, 2013
Staying in the Game
The message came from Human Resources. There's nothing to worry about with the newly ...
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October 16, 2013
How New Employees Learn
What does research tell us about adult learners and how to best work with them?
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October 16, 2013
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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October 16, 2013
Storytelling for Training
Utilizing the Power Tool of the Caveman “Sam Walton was a great storyteller,” said Lee ...
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October 15, 2013
Social Media for Teachers
Teachers: Resourcing is Not Cheating! Gone are the days of recreating the wheel every time ...
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October 15, 2013
Tips for Computer Based Training
Creative Training Tip for Computer Based Training When doing classroom instruction for ...
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October 13, 2013
Modeling the Flipped Classroom
A newer trend in education is called the flipped classroom. Some teachers are sending ...
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October 10, 2013
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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