This Tip explores Kantor’s Four Player Model in which there are four roles necessary for productive communication. “The essence of dialogue is an inquiry that surfaces
This Tip discusses the fact that managers need to present their own experience when giving performance feedback. “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to
This Tip provides a thought-provoking leadership vocabulary that William C. Taylor uses to describe effective and ineffective leadership. “Ancora Imparo,” Italian for “I am still
This Tip discusses how to make PowerPoint more effective by highlighting or spatial cueing key information, based on brain research. “What makes things memorable is
This Tip discusses TED-Ed animated lessons, which is a terrific training resource subtitled Lessons Worth Sharing for teachers and students. “Animation offers a medium of
We seem to have an attraction to numbers. A “2 for 1” sale. “101 places to see before you die.” Perhaps it is because we
This Tip introduces question-storming and explains its benefits over the more familiar brainstorming approach to idea generation. “One does not begin with answers. One begins
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
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
There are learning activities I forget to use. They were once a standard part of my training repertoire, and I rarely ever use them any
This Tip consists of an Amman training and Dubai training Travelogue in 2015, where I conducted many different training programs. An Amman Training and Dubai
This Tip describes the four elements of the AGES must-haves for real learning: attention, generation, emotion and spacing. “Concentrating on the essentials. We will then
