Blog Posts To Boost Your Skills
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Embracing “Figleaf” for Presentations
Oh, if only I could advocate Figleaf, since it’s the go-to position of many presenters. After giving Figleaf a thumbs-up in this fantasy scenario, I could also wholeheartedly endorse the following, both online and IRL: slumping shoulders forward crossing arms in front of the body crossing legs. I can only imagine how relieved my clients Read full post…
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How to Keep Meetings Active and Productive
As a facilitator, you are responsible for achieving the meeting outcomes, maintaining full participation, and ending on time. How do you maintain meaningful, focused conversation throughout? These five tips will help. 1. PlaybackReiterate what a participant has said as closely as you can. Try not to infer meaning.“Greg, I’m hearing you say that you want Read full post…
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Transform Your Training with This Easy Tool
Does your training environment sometimes feel dull (or even dead) as you deliver content? Does the environment itself feel uninspired? Wouldn’t it be great to have a magic wand you could use to inject your training with energy! Such a “magic wand” exists. Called Pair and Share, it is arguably the easiest and most effective Read full post…
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What’s To Love About Training? A Selfish List for Trainers
Training is expensive and energy-intensive. In Robert Mager’s words, training should be considered an “intervention of last resort” to fix a problem. And as more and more organizations adopt a Human Performance Technology (HPT) orientation, training can play a progressively diminished role. So, trainers, let’s be selfish for a minute. Even in the larger HPT Read full post…
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