How To Survive A Technical Disaster When Conducting A Training Session
Worst Case Scenario #1: How To Survive A Technical Disaster Technical disasters include equipment failure, equipment that doesn’t talk to each…
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Posts By: Leslie Ciborowski
Is Texting To Blame for Poorly Written Emails?
Whenever you’re in an elevator, in a lunch line, standing at the checkout at the grocery store or waiting for…
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Surviving A Mistake As A Corporate Trainer
Mistakes are peculiar. One trainer can make a mistake, and it’s just a hiccup that no one remembers and most…
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Learning How to Tie Your Shoes: Challenges Of Getting Adults To Learn New Skills & How To Overcome Them
Under the category of “All I need to know I learned in Kindergarten,’ many people would include learning how to…
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How To Start Your Training Session With A Bang!
Why settle for breaking the ice when you can start your training session with a BANG! What do you see…
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Surviving The Disruptive Participant In A Training Session
The disruptive participant can sink your training faster than you can say, “Please Don’t Do That.” Whether it’s someone who…
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How to Survive The Worst Case Scenarios As A Trainer
When my daughter was ten years old, someone gave her a copy of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. She decided…
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How To Assess Yourself & Your Training Delivery Skills
When we hold a Train-the-Trainer Workshop, participants have multiple opportunities to practice their training/facilitation skills in a variety of assignments….
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How to Take Dry Content and Make It an Interesting Training Experience
Think about the most memorable training experience you ever attended. Now focus on one or two lessons that you took…
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Do You Have Poor Business Email Etiquette? 5 Tips For Writing Better Business Emails
Emails are so pervasive in the workplace that few people see them as a strategic communication tool much less one…
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The Trainer’s Tool Everyone Loves to Hate: The Facilitator Guide
You wouldn’t think that facilitator guides would be a particularly controversial topic. Maybe controversial is too strong a word. Let’s…
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Generational Differences In The Workplace When It Comes To Learning Preferences
Ever since the Millennials started making their mark in the workplace in the early 2000’s, older generations have taken notice;…
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Virtual Instructor-led Training: 6 Ways to Convert Virtual Lurkers into Active Participants
Ask a seasoned trainer what’s their least favorite venue and there’s a 90% chance they’ll say: virtual. It doesn’t matter…
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How To Survive Disruptive Training Participants Who Think They Are Hostages
Every time a trainer walks into a new training session, they know they will be greeted by four distinct groups…
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Questioning Skills For Trainers: Do You Agree: There’s No Such Thing As A Dumb Question?
In the 2007 Ms. Teen USA pageant, South Carolina Teen Caitlin Upton, who was a finalist for the title, was…
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How to Prevent Your Behavioral Style and Learning Preferences from Sabotaging Your Training
The young advertising employee asked the seasoned executive for advice. She was struggling with negative feedback on her creative effort….
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How To Prepare For Training Delivery – Because Murphy’s Law Is Real
It could have been a disaster. One of my personal best practices when conducting training in a new venue is…
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3 Trends That Will Impact Corporate Training Budgets in 2017
This is not a financial story. Depending on the source, training budgets are either shrinking or expanding. The fact is,…
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