When you think about it, why would you get your audience to introduce themselves? When you think of pet hates, introducing oneself at a workshop is easily one of the most hated of all activities. So why bother getting the audience members to introduce themselves? Or you could take a totally different route, and avoid the […]
How To Tell When Your Audience Has Had Enough
Can you really tell when your audience has had a full feed of information? Amazingly the answer lies in the eyes and ears of the participants. Look first at the eyes And if you look at the eyes, you’ll think you’re the best speaker on the planet. You’ll think your audience is rapt with attention. […]
Why You Need To Design Learning Around The Exit Sign
How many days does it take to recover from conducting a workshop? Back in the year 2001, it used to take me about a week. Three days after the workshop, I’d be utterly exhausted. And it would be another four days before I could really crawl back to work at normal speed. And it was […]
The Importance of a Safe Zone
Manhattan, New York isn’t a scary place. And yet, as I stepped out of the subway into a sea of people, I was intimidated. I wasn’t sure where to go. Or what to do next. I was completely out of my safe-zone. I’d gone from a country of 4 million people (and a zillion sheep), […]
How to Make a Workshop Training Pay For Itself If You’re a Small Biz Owner
The most interesting word in the sentence is “pay”. Or rather payback. Why would you put in time, money and effort without a clear payback? And yet most people have not a clue what this payback could be For me it was about confidence. When I first started out in business I saw myself as […]
How To Get An Audience Back Into The Room
If you’re conducting a workshop anytime soon, you’re going to have one big problem on your hand. The moment you open the doors and let your audience out for a coffee/lunch break, you’ll have a hard time getting them back. And then you become a sheep-dog, having to herd the sheep back into the pen. […]
