Do you need a compelling reason to attend our 21st Annual Creative Training Techniques Conference?
Each of our training consultants is hand-picked by Bob Pike for their expertise in the training field, their well-rounded skill sets, and “great personalities.” The conference allows for extended time to learn from and interact with our experts to help you hone your skills and perhaps solve some of those tricky problems you’ve been wrestling with.
Here is a recent testimonial on how fabulous our training consultants are and how many immediately applicable tips and skills you’ll acquire.
From: Sara Glass
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:08 PM
To: Cindy Sheffield
Subject: Trainer's Boot Camp Experience
Dear Mrs. Sheffield,
I recently attended the Bob Pike’s Train the Trainer Boot Camp hosted by Doug McCallum, M.Ed. in Houston, Texas.
He told us in class that if we would share at least two things that we’ve already used to improve our training, he would share two of his break time programs. I can do more than that! I loved the training so much that we are sending another trainer to the Annual Creative Training Techniques Conference instead of the original plan of sending her to the CUNA Training LIVE Seminar.
I’ve been to several training sessions before, some that were an entire week long, and I got more from Doug in those two days than I’ve gotten in all my years of training. I was so pumped after that training that I couldn’t make up my mind on which opener, energizer, or closer to use in my next class, but the class was the very next day so I had to decide quickly.
The night I came home from Houston, I made a rolling slide show of some pretty silly pictures and in the slide show, included my name as the trainer and asked them to silence their cell phones during class. I also went to iTunes and downloaded some show tunes to my iPod.
Everyone loved the slide show. It was early in the morning and it’s pretty hard to get everyone smiling and laughing, but the slide show and music definitely did the job. I also gave everyone a two-minute warning before the class started. I ended up using the cartoon with the three idea clouds as my opener.
It was a sales training I was teaching, so I had each person write what came to mind when they heard the word sales “before” the class even started. The idea of the class is to change everyone’s negative perception on sales so everyone wrote things like “car salesman,” “pushy,” and “let downs.”
At break time, I told them to take a 12-minute break instead of the normal 10 or 15-minute. I also turned the music back on.
After they came back from break, I handed each one of the employees a sticky pad and told them to go back to their flip chart page and stick four sheets of sticky paper at the bottom of their cartoon and write what they now thought about the word sales. I started to see the positive things that we had mentioned in class.
As a closer, I used the potato trick, and it tied into my training really well. Most people get anxious when it comes to trying to sell something; the feeling of being rejected really bothers us and we don’t think we will succeed. Same goes for the potato; it seems impossible at first, but when you do it, you see it was surprisingly easy.
Thank you for allowing me to share my experience and I look forward to seeing you guys next year.
Sara Glass
Technical Trainer
FivePoint Credit Union
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