“A picture is worth a thousand words.” Absolutely true! Pictures can enhance your message manifold. Yet one of the challenges presenters and corporate trainers face is getting copyright free, high quality images at zero cost. This is indeed an issue! Some of us are unaware that all images on the internet are copyright protected unless …
Stories bring training rooms alive…they make people think, laugh and best of all are highly memorable. To know more you may want to go over Why stories / narratives can improve your training? Larks Insight: This story can be used to discuss initiative and link between responsibility and reward. “Two sons work for their father …
We all receive feedback. It is a fact of life. In the corporate world we focus on formal “FEEDBACK.” However, that in my view is a very limited perspective. You try something and get a suboptimum result…that’s feedback that you need to do things differently, you step onto the road and you hear the squealing …
Name: Many cooks Shared by: Andrew Rea Materials required: Depends on the item chosen Time: 20 No of participants: 20-25 Process: Split the people into groups of about 4 or 5 in different parts of the room. Each group is given a box of materials and a set of tasks to be achieved – things …
Name: The Tower of Babel Shared by: Albert Verster Materials required: Spaghetti & Marshmallows Time: 30 min including debrief No of participants: 20-25 Process: Teams of five or six are requested to build a tower with spaghetti and marshmallows by sticking the spaghetti pieces into marshmallows. Very little is given in terms of the set …
One of the common refrains of training managers and business heads is that they want to see the needle move post training. And it is tough to show the needle move in the case of behavioral training…Yes, you have sophisticated methods of calculating ROI on behavioral training interventions but they take substantial time, effort and …
I find the attitude of my 8 year old son amazing in so many ways. And one of them is his trust in “Professionals”. He has many times told me, “They know it better than you Mom, they are professionals.” This could be the driver or the chef… I resent it tremendously when he says …
Stories exert a unique power over people. “Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.” Native American proverb To understand why you should use them in your training workshop, you may want to go over “Why …
People are motivated by 2 instincts pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain and no prizes for guessing that it is the avoidance of pain that is the stronger motivator. I remember hearing a story….Sam and Peter are talking and in the background Peter’s dog is howling. Sam asks Peter, “Why is he howling?” Peter …
A tyre can run for miles and miles but when it gets punctured the air leaks out pshhh… We then need to get to the petrol pump and fill the air back into the tyre. We, human beings too are like car tyres. Our #mojo and sense of worth has a way of getting depleted …
