According to this article, storytelling will be the number 1 business skill of the next five years. I don’t know that I’d make it the number 1 skill, but it’s definitely higher than most people think. When it comes to training, storytelling is a huge part of being successful. The dirty little secret of training,…
As someone who spends a fair amount of time speaking to groups, I’m always interested when I come upon posts with titles like 10 Ways to Avoid Bombing While Public Speaking. The on that jumped out at me, and made me smile to myself, was actually number 10: Finish on time – Stand up, speak…
This is the idea behind Presntation.io, which I saw this post about this week. In a nutshell: Presentation.io does this by allowing the members of your audience to see your slides on their laptops, iPads, and Android tablets and watch them change when you advance your slides. This ensures that everyone is on the same…
After taking a read of this post, Start with the Why, and the linked Ted presentation, I’ve been thinking about software trainers and how much we could learn from this. It’s easy, when teaching people how to use software, to focus on how to get things done. Obviously, those details are somewhat important, you buy…
OK, granted, I am a trainer by profession, and when I see something like Seth Godin’s piece about listening better, I want to scream “Amen!”. Let’s take a sample: The hardest step in better listening is the first one: do it on purpose. Make the effort to actually be good at it. Don’t worry so…
Research shows us that, at every age, people are pretty terrible at estimating just how much things will change in the next 10 years: Research recently reported on in the New York Times about a study on self-perception published in Science shows that individuals at every age and demographic make this kind of error: They…