Tip #402: Ten Ways to Bore Your Audience to Death
“Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.” Don Marquis I met a friend in a grocery store where he
“Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.” Don Marquis I met a friend in a grocery store where he
“You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.” Calvin Coolidge There is no reason why a trainer should bore trainees and waste
“Practice puts your brains in your muscles.“ Sam Snead If an activity requires an immediate automatic response, then a great deal of repetition and practice
“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” Francis Bacon Every now and then, there is a participant in a training session who asks
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.” Ralph Waldo Emerson The idea of using participatory learning activities is alarming to many trainers for three basic reasons.
“Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.” Ernest Dimnet If training is to effectively change learner behavior, then the curriculum must be
” There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge . . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation
“No one can remember more than three points.” Philip Crosby It may seem surprising, but the number three plays a significant role in curriculum design
“I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.“ Sugar Ray Robinson The bane of a trainer’s experience
“Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don’t get
“Every crowd has a silver lining. ” P. T. Barnum Large groups can present a number of challenges for a trainer. Informed choices will need
“Lucid intervals and happy pauses.” Francis Bacon It may seem counterintuitive, but participants will learn more during a training program if there is less training
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