Up Against a Brick Wall? June 30, 2009 By Liz Wheeler Need a visual or object lesson for removing obstacles?   Deborah Schonfeld uses this template to create simple boxes. She puts cl...

Check Your Document for Readability May 5, 2009 By Liz Wheeler When you've completed your leader notes, conference blurbs or research for a conference session, you may want to run your own "...

2009 July Training News and Notes By Liz Wheeler Learning Leaders Fieldbook Released The MASIE Center recently released a Creative Commons License ebook called Learning Leaders Fieldbook. Edited...

How to POSE for Meetings to Make You More Efficient By Mike Song, Tim Burress, Vicky Halsey     Bestselling authors Mike Song, Tim Burress, and Vicki Halsey of The Hamster Revolutio...

Useful Sites to Surf By Liz Wheeler Here are some resources we've found while scouring the Internet doing very useful thinks like blogging and updating our facebook status.   Learning Styl...

Blow the Doors Off Sales as Usual By Jackie Freiberg We recently ran into an MVP who is blowing the doors off sales-as-usual. Jenny Allen is a sales manager for the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Die...

Rapport with Your Audience--The Like Link By Dianna Booher Connections create credibility. To put it simply, people are much more apt to believe you if they like you. Haven't you observed speaker...

Flip Chart as Cheat Sheet December 2, 2008 By John Lewis A great flip chart tip I learned years ago was to write information lightly in pencil on the flip chart sheets ahead of time. Th...

Mind Mapping Freeware By Liz Wheeler In the August edition of American Society for Training and Development's e-Zine, they listed three freeware software available for mindmapping. Here's a brief...

Remember Humor for Memory Retention By Mary Kay Morrison My memories of second grade are fuzzy except for two specific recollections. One is being sent to the hallway for talking too much (no one...

Utilizing the Power Tool of the Caveman By Kathy Dempsey "Sam Walton was a great storyteller," said Lee Scott, Wal-Mart CEO, said to his executives. "All you do at meetings is give statistics and...

Feed Their Brains by EATing By William Zielke, EdDHave you ever taught a concept your students just couldn't grasp? Or thought they had until you asked them to apply it? If you answered "yes" to e...

Linking Training Objectives to Measures of Training Success By Jack Phillips, PhD and Patti Phillips, PhD    Before training evaluation begins, program objectives must be developed...

Questions To Consider When Doing Participant-Centered Training By Doug McCallum M.Ed In designing participant-centered training, many instructors use questions to help process information. In add...

Gaming and Virtualization for Learning By Elliott Masie and Learning Oddfellow By Learning Oddfellow and Elliott Masie Exclusive to The Bob Pike Group ezine   Hi, this is Learning Oddfell...

More Trainer Toolbox Ideas April 18, 2007 By Kelley Phipps Kelley Phipps, a senior trainer at Indymac Bank, F.S.B. in California, submitted her idea collection for her MacGyver-moment traini...

Purposeful PowerPoint® Pointers: Part Two of Three By Betsy Allen Purposeful PowerPoint® Pointers: Part Two of Three By Betsy Allen, Senior Vice President, The Bob Pike Group   &n...

Purposeful PowerPoint® Pointers: Part One of Three By Betsy Allen This is the first of three articles designed to compel you to start putting the point back in PowerPoint.  Here you will...

PowerPoint® Pointers: Part Three of Three By Betsy Allen In this last of three articles designed to compel you to start putting the point back in PowerPoint, compare your top four strategies ...

Trainer's Emergency Toolkit Submitted Tips and Techniques January 24, 2007 By Liz Wheeler You've probably been caught in a high-stress situation-perhaps a tear in the seam of your one pair o...

It's Game Time February 1, 2006 By Becky Pluth What was the greatest cause of death while traveling to the west during the days of covered wagons? If you said small pox, drowning or death by...

Building Training with Lego July 9th, 2009 One of the things you will notice when you attend a Langevin workshop is the variety of toys on the tables. We cover the reasons for using toys in trai...

  LuoMa: clothing as a prop, Ugg Boots for every one of us provide a kind of performance. Therefore, when we "to mirror dressing, virtually has been staged in. Here I want to Reebok Shoes em...