|
|
|
Cookin' Streams of Income
Cookin' Streams of Income
One of the major issues sounding life as a parent is money.
There rarely seems to be enough to make ends meet and provide
your child or children with the basic necessities of life. If
only some one would come on...
How To Evaluate A New Business Opportunity
If you are searching for ways to earn an income using the internet, you must have already come across many programs with unbelievable claims of overnight income. This article outlines 7 criteria that I use to evaluate any opportunity that...
Top 10 E's to Motivate and Influence an Audience
Publishing Guidelines: You are welcome to publish this article
in its entirety, electronically, or in print fre*e of charge, as
long as you include my full signature file for ezines, and my
Web site address(http://www.schrift.com) in hyperlink...
What is the purpose of a website?
After looking over hundreds of websites over the past year, the one thing I discovered is people are still unsure of what the Internet can do for them. People are generally under the impression that a website is used to take their business to the...
Why Americans Find Predatory Lending Offensive
"Menis - the author translates as "indignant rage" - It is the kind of rage arising from social betrayal that impairs a person's dignity through violation of "what's right." (p21), Achilles In Viet Nam - Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character,...
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
What Sort of Training is Most Effective?
Organisations are turning more and more to external training
companies to develop the 'soft' skills of their staff. With so
much expertise available what do people need to look for to get
the best from the training they buy in?
At Impact Factory we have evolved a way of working with our
clients which produces truly effective training programmes that
take into account different and changing needs all the way from
the briefing process right through to the delivery of the
training itself, and beyond.
There are three stages that go into the creation and delivery of
effective training: it has to be specific to an organisation,
the group of people to whom the training is available and most
importantly the group to whom the training is delivered.
Here's how we see these three objectives broken down
There must be a good initial briefing reflected back to the
client in order to ensure that the objectives are understood.
The more detail the better, so that everyone is clear how the
training will fit into the goals of the company. Companies who
go to the trouble of providing well-detailed briefs, should be
presented with something better than 'off the shelf' courses by
the training provider.
There should be a period of consultation with the client and
prospective participants whilst the training is being designed.
This is to ensure that there are a number of different
perspectives heard, which can be taken into account when
creating the training. Input from a variety of people helps
present a broad picture.
Now most really good training companies achieve these first two
objectives.
It's the third objective, however, that truly sets excellent
training apart from the good.
It is the function of the trainer in the room when the training
is delivered. In the same way that training companies can
provide off the shelf programmes, so trainers can deliver
courses in a proscriptive and inflexible way.
In other words, they may be good trainers, but they follow their
training manuals step-by-step even when something unplanned
would be more appropriate.
Every Impact Factory training ever designed has a clear set of
objectives and a manual which will include a series of
processes, exercises and games to fulfil those objectives.
Beyond that, however, Impact Factory trainers are rigorously
trained to be able to create, develop and modify these processes
to fit the needs of the people on the day.
For instance, after a series of tried and true communication
exercises there might be a session given in the manual only as
"An hour on Added Value".
The processes for this session would be developed by the trainer
based on the dynamic of the group of people in the room and what
would most benefit them.
That level of flexibility keeps every training session we run
alive and relevant.
Here's an example
We ran a Team Event for a group of 18
software support and
customer service staff.
There were eighteen people who were giving up their Saturday
just before Christmas. We had created a one-day programme for
them to include 'team building', creativity and a look at how
the future of this department might develop.
They clearly said at the beginning of the day that they wanted
'fun', but didn't want any 'role play', but they also clearly
demonstrated during the day a desire and ability to play hard
and well.
This resulted in a process where three natural teams, or groups,
within the department created a tongue in cheek political
manifesto for running the department. It was then followed by a
party political gathering where each group electioneered, made
promises, bargained and generally tried to get the others to
vote for them.
It was tremendous fun, helped people deal with serious issues of
agreements between the groups, but most important of all, suited
this group of people down to the ground.
This approach may look dangerous and cavalier at first glance.
Indeed, if attempted by untrained people it can easily turn into
a disaster. However, when run by experts it is very safe, very
effective and produces comments like "this is the best training
I have ever done".
Impact Factory trainers work hard to give participants a
relevant experience as opposed to just delivering a training
well.
Our skill is in providing the appropriate training to fit the
group of people who are there at the time. When you think about
it, if we took this training, which was developed on-the-spot
for these software people, and made a reluctant, non-playful
group go through the same process it would not produce the same
result.
The experience is what is important. When you look at the reason
that role-play is so universally disliked it's because people
have had, or fear they will have, a difficult or humiliating
experience.
Impact Factory trainers and trainings don't use set piece
role-plays or inflict role-plays on unwilling people. We look
for ways to introduce 'real life re-enactments' using situations
or examples brought in by participants. They may well end up
'playing them out', but are likely to say afterwards things like
'How did they get us to do that?'.
This way of working is entirely dependant on the ability of the
trainer in the room being able to assess the people, create the
processes and 'bounce' the participants into willingly taking
part.
Our trainers will always deal with the experience that people
are having rather than trying to give people the experience the
manual says they are supposed to have. This is how Impact
Factory creates effective training.
About the author:
Jo Ellen and Robin run Impact Factory a training company who
provide Public Speaking,
Presentation Skills, Communications Training, Leadership
Development and Executive Coaching for Individuals.
|
|
|
|
|
| Oral Presentation Advice |
| Your presentation should not replace your paper, but rather whet the ... Below I consider goals for academic interview talks and class presentations. ... |
| www.cs.wisc.edu |
|
| Presentation Skills |
| This site contains annotated links to resources concerned with presentation and communication skills. |
| lorien.ncl.ac.uk |
|
| Presentation Helper - Free PowerPoint templates, help, advice and ... |
| Resources on how to make effective presentations. Includes tips on PowerPoint and topic ideas. |
| www.presentationhelper.co.uk |
|
| Neurobehavioral Systems, Inc. |
| Neuroscience stimulus delivery software can be used for cognitive psychology, fMRI, erp and single unit research (Windows). |
| nbs.neuro-bs.com |
|
| Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered |
| Why tables for layout is stupid:. problems defined, solutions offered. Tables existed in HTML for one reason: To display tabular data. ... |
| www.hotdesign.com |
|
| The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation |
| This presentation prepared with the help of Microsoft Powerpoint Autocontent Wizard. ... Permission is granted to use this presentation in any course or ... |
| norvig.com |
|
| Presentation Zen |
| I love the clear presentation of the ideas in the book and the fact that the ... In the context of presentations, moving info away can help you and the ... |
| www.presentationzen.com |
|
| Presentation Tips for Public Speaking |
| Better Public Speaking & Presentation - Ensure Your Words Are Always ... On the Job: Public Speaking Tips - Twelve Steps to Great Presentations by Elise ... |
| www.aresearchguide.com |
|
| Presentation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| Presentation is the process of presenting the content of a topic to an ... You should plan to rehearse your presentation out loud at least four times. ... |
| en.wikipedia.org |
|
| OSCON 2005 Keynote - Identity 2.0 |
| “A barn-burner of a presentation. I loved this.” - Cory Doctorow. “I watched it twice, and greatly enjoyed it both times.” - Jon Udell ... |
| www.identity20.com |
|
| Presentations - Effective Communication - Public Speaking |
| Tips and tools for creating and delivering presentations: text, techniques and technology. |
| www.presentations.com |
|
| Presentation Information Resources - Presentation Technology News ... |
| Presentation Information Resources - Comprehensive presenter's resource providing instant access to up-to-date information on technology and techniques for ... |
| 199.249.170.231 |
|
| Effective Presentations homepage |
| In addition, the skills needed to prepare an oral presentation can be used ... A spiffy presentation discussing Effective Teaching with Powerpoint from the ... |
| www.kumc.edu |
|
| Impress |
| Your presentations will stand out with 2D and 3D clip art, special effects, animation, ... Slide show Animation and Effects bring your presentation to life. ... |
| www.openoffice.org |
|
| PRESENTATIONPRO - experts for Microsoft PowerPoint |
| A series of products and services to help enhance PowerPoint presentations with templates and backgrounds. |
| www.presentationpro.com |
|
| Leadership - Presentation Skills |
| Presentation, PowerPoint, and Leadership. ... Presentations and reports are ways of communicating ideas and information to a group. But unlike a report, ... |
| www.skagit.com |
|
| Presentation: See what people are saying right now on Technorati |
| See all blog posts tagged with presentation on Technorati. |
| www.technorati.com |
|
| Secretary of State Addresses the U.N. Security Council |
| My friends, this has been a long and a detailed presentation. And I thank you for your patience. But there is one more subject that I would like to touch on ... |
| www.whitehouse.gov |
|
| Rubric |
| Organization, Audience cannot understand presentation because there is no sequence of information. Audience has difficulty following presentation because ... |
| www.ncsu.edu |
|
| Presentation Skills |
| Presentations are one of the first managerial skills which a junior engineer ... This article looks at the basics of Presentation Skills as they might apply ... |
| www.see.ed.ac.uk |
|
|