Is Con­ven­tional Wis­dom Hurt­ing You?

Unsci­en­tif­i­cally, I’d guess that 86% of speak­ers believe these pop­u­lar pre­sen­ta­tion myths.

Are you one of them?

Don’t Blow Your Credibility

Train­ing Tips from the U.K.

David Gib­son, co-director of Britain’s Eureka Train the Trainer, offers these tips to increase par­tic­i­pant buy-in before the workshop:

• Send learn­ers an arti­cle from a news­pa­per, mag­a­zine or inter­net high­light­ing infor­ma­tion rel­e­vant to the session.
• Send a content-relevant Pod­Cast or audi­tory file that learn­ers can lis­ten on their MP3 player.
• Tele­phone learn­ers to wel­come them and answer questions.

These tips will enhance your learner’s readi­ness, and make YOUR job easier.

See other train­ing tips from Eureka

The World’s Eas­i­est Quiz

Take this quiz your­self or use it as on on-line ener­gizer in a train­ing session.

How can you fail?

See You Again in May

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And remem­ber, when you need to develop effec­tive “in-house” train­ing, go to

Guila’s Train the Trainer

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