I Can’t Make You Learn a Thing! Let the Machines Do It!
Really! What you learn is up to you. Retention works best if it is self-motivated.…
Jack Shaw
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Unlocking Creative Potential – A Neuroscience Approach, Part III
Sandy Cormack, a personal and organizational consultant, continues with his installments of Unlocking Creative Potential.…
Improving Yourself
Navigating the Training Labyrinth
You don’t really want to make a wrong turn and there is no GPS for…
Training & Development
Making Digital Training “An Affair to Remember”
In an article I wrote called How to Make Training “An Affair to Remember I…
Training & Development
Unlocking Creative Potential – A Neuroscience Approach, Part II
Sandy Cormack, a personal and organizational consultant, continues with his installments of Unlocking Creative Potential.…
Improving Yourself
Unlocking Creative Potential – A Neuroscience Approach, Part I
In my last article, I talked about performance from the viewpoints of Performance Psychologists. This…
Improving Yourself
Performance: The Psychologist’s View
I am a working actor and a working trainer. For both professions, you could say…
Performance Management
On Evaluating Standardized Tests
I just read an article from the Washington Post that disturbed me: When An Adult…
Improving Yourself
Battling for Creative Solutions
About a year ago I ran across a NEWSWEEK article that still moves me on…
Leadership Skills
Finding Employee’s Other Qualifying Factors, Part I
It seems no one wants to hire an exemplary person, but someone just to do…
Leadership Skills
How to Brainstorm with Visual Aids
This may seem an odd way to use visual aids, but you would be surprised…
Improving Yourself
Egocentricity and the Stages of Man
We all go through egocentric phases, and we need to understand them. We admit our…
Training & Development
Macabre Humor: Strange but True Stories for Trainers
Either I have weird friends or friends who just know weird things. To be quite…
Training & Development
When Companies Think They Are Too Smart for Customer Service…
When companies think they are smarter than their customers it’s time to time customers learned…
Customer Relationship Management
The Cave Man Approach to Training: Basic Survival with a Smile
Imagine the basics of cave man training others, not only how to make the wheel,…
Training & Development
Training: Tricks or Treats?
These Questions and Answers lay out in plain and simple–in Cave Man terms–how easy it…