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Laurel and Associates, Ltd: June 2010
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Monday, June 28, 2010. Tip #329: An Independent Training Consultant’s Dream: When Your Client Loves Your Training. 8220;It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”. Over the past thirty years in conducting training programs, I have experienced many wonderful highs. Sometimes you can actually see that you made a significant positive difference in the lives of the participants. However, most of them soon got the hang of it and interacted (for the first time in their lives) with incr...
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Laurel and Associates, Ltd: July 2010
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Monday, July 26, 2010. Tip #333: It Helps to Lighten Up: How Humor Can Enrich Any Learning Situation. The human race has only one effective weapon and that is laughter. The moment it arises, all your irritations go away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.". It might surprise you to learn that there is an actual Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. It certainly surprised me! I have found that humor is a vital training tool. Sometimes, they really don't realize that I would like them to respon...
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Laurel and Associates, Ltd: September 2010
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Monday, September 27, 2010. Tip #342: Avoid Seven Mistakes that Affect Trainer Credibility and Respect. 8220;When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don’t repeat it.”. Paul “Bear” Bryant. Trainers make seven mistakes that adversely affect their credibility and effectiveness. If you want participants to respect and trust you, follow these suggestions. Mistake #1. Assuming you are supposed to have all the answers. Mistake #5. Being ...
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Laurel and Associates, Ltd: Tip #387: Don’t be Afraid to Use Participatory Learning Activities
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Monday, August 15, 2011. Tip #387: Don’t be Afraid to Use Participatory Learning Activities. 8220;Knowledge is the antidote to fear.”. It is true that there are costly participatory learning activities on the market that offer lots of bells and whistles. It is also true that are many participant-centered activities that are easy to create, take little time to deliver, and cost next to nothing. Participatory activities can be quick and inexpensive to create and deliver. Simple participatory learning activ...
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Laurel and Associates, Ltd: July 2011
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Monday, July 25, 2011. Tip #384: What is Magic About the Number Three in Brain Research- and What It Means for Training Design and Delivery. There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge . . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. A Three Types of Memory. Research shows that there are actually three types of memory:. Occurs when we experience any aspect of the world th...
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Laurel and Associates, Ltd: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. Tip #360:How to Get Participants to Recognize the Benefits of Training. Is based on a question that Sarah Schenkat of Badgerland Financial asked after a recent workshop on Taking the Pain out of Task Analysis for SMES. Thank you, Sarah! When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.". What are the consequences of not making this change? The participants may not kn...
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Laurel and Associates, Ltd: Tip #386: The Value of Being Willing to Admit: “I Don’t Understand”
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Monday, August 8, 2011. Tip #386: The Value of Being Willing to Admit: “I Don’t Understand”. 8220;You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”. When learners are willing to admit that they don’t understand a concept or technique, everyone benefits: the individual, the trainer and the other learners in the workshop. There are many reasons why asking for help is the best thing to do:. It indicates the learner’s sense of ownership and commitment to learning. It reflects the learner&#...
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Laurel and Associates, Ltd: August 2010
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Monday, August 30, 2010. Tip #338: If You Want Employees to be Productive: Tell Them What They Need To Know. I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.". What role does performance management play? When the first session of the training went terribly, the new trainer did not wait for the supervisor to come to observe the third session. He went to the...
