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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 ...
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