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These training participants are actively involved, thereby creating a memory in the limbic system.

Tip #828: Virtual Accelerated Learning Training?

lI am planning to convert a program on designing accelerated learning training to a virtual medium. And I’m very nervous about it, I must admit.

June 29, 2020

Tip #817: To Go Virtual or Not

“You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.” Wayne Dyer Like so many of us, I am now confronted with the need

April 6, 2020

Two women and three men in a business meeting lack conversational capacity to handle a difficult conversation.

Tip #780: How Cognitive Bias Can Help Learning

“But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they’re already looking for, that’s all.” Veronica Roth According to Dashe Thomson, cognitive

July 8, 2019

My father was the source of my inspiration for business. My business is training and here are participants in my class.

Tip #745: Rituals in Training

I was reminded of the importance of rituals as I conducted a two-day class on How to Design Accelerated Learning Programs, Rituals are something that

October 29, 2018

The woman is doing a visualization, one of the learning activities for attitude-changing training.

Tip #739: Only three hours

Imagine that you have only three hours to convert die-hard lecturers into facilitative trainers. What content and activities would you use to introduce and model

September 17, 2018

Tip #582: The Power of Multiples of Five in Training

“A rule to live by: I won’t use anything I can’t explain in five minutes.” Philip Crosby The number five, or multiples of five, occurs frequently

August 17, 2015

Tip #580: A Time to Grow New Brain Cells

“Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.” Han Suyin Research has shown that using your non-dominant hand will grow brain cells and also enhance

August 3, 2015

Tip #578: BudgetLand, the Game

We designed BudgetLand to help new employees understand how their agency budget is administered. Since the operating budget affects employee salaries and resources, information about

July 20, 2015

For learning to occur, participants need to be able to ask questions, which does not occur in lectures alone. The lectures need to be augmented with active learning activities.

Tip #573: Pros and Cons of Using Jeopardy

“Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.” Joyce A. Myers Jeopardy is a great game for checking participant comprehension. It can be used for

June 15, 2015

M&M's to be sorted in a learning activity about percentages and audits.

Tip #563: M&M’s and Audits

I am a chocoholic, so I really appreciate learning activities that involve M&M’s. An earlier article focused on an activity that uses M&M’s to enable

April 6, 2015

Three training participants, a black woman, white man with a gray beard and another white man are holding wrists to celebrate reaching consensus, one of the decision making styles.

Tip #562: M&M’s And Decision Making Styles

This Tip focuses on the first activity, which uses M&M’s to enable participants to experience the consequences of different leadership decision making styles. The next

March 30, 2015

Amman and Dubai Travelogue – 2015

January 15-16, Travel to Amman This is my third trip to Amman and, as with all of my international travels bar none, it came with

January 15, 2015

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