Using the Arts to Train Leaders

By Jack Shaw on June 11, 2013

I recently reviewed a wonderful professional production of URINETOWN THE MUSICAL and then later came home to The Tony Awards Show. (Ironically, the musical is a satire on corporations and government, taking advantage of the people, and multitude of other things not necessary to go into here.) In spite of the subject matter, the experience [...]

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How to Enhance Business Presentations with Opinion, or How to Give Content Rich Program a Personality

By Jack Shaw on May 22, 2013

Actually, this is PART II of Trainers Who Talk, Talk, Talk with Nothing to Say… This is a good example of a blog that ran away with itself, or a writer who lost control or became too passionate. It started as a way of demonstrating presentations or training had to have substance and at the [...]

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Trainers Who Talk, Talk, Talk with Nothing to Say…

By Jack Shaw on May 20, 2013

Trainers who have nothing to say aren’t really trainers. They may be entrepreneurs really. Quite frankly some have just learned how to make a buck with social media in particular and are good at jingoism. Or, to give them more respect, they could be speakers and even trainers who have sold good training tools, depending on [...]

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Internships: Win-Win-Win

By Jack Shaw on May 7, 2013

Most of us would agree that internships are probably the best kind of training since it involves real world experience usually attached to related academic work. There are some disagreements as to the value and cost to the company. And, although how internships operate, whether paid or unpaid, and does depend on the country involved, [...]

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Are We Training Corporations to be Too Powerful?

By Jack Shaw on April 25, 2013

The following is strictly commentary. The comments made here are mine and mine alone, and in no part are related to The Free Management Library. Powerful corporations taking advantage the general population seems to be the stereotype, doesn’t it? Are, we, trainers, helping them do that? I know this sounds somewhat sacrilegious, since I, too, have [...]

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Useful Quotes for Training and Education, Part II

By Jack Shaw on April 22, 2013

As promised, here is Part II of Useful Quotes for Training and Education. I have decided, on a whim really, that I will sit down with my new speech students and let them discuss the meaning of the following quotes, and how they might use them in a speech. Of course, there are useful quotes [...]

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Useful Quotes for Training and Education, Part I

By Jack Shaw on April 18, 2013

Quotes. Every speaker, teacher and trainer uses them so I thought I gather a few and place them here. It is interesting to note that some are subtle in meaning and some are not. Some will reach all of your audiences, some will not. Most importantly, I suggest to you that if the total meaning [...]

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Five Steps to Analyzing Training Needs and Solutions

By Jack Shaw on April 15, 2013

Don’t believe me? It’s basic critical thinking. I look around the internet and people are always asking how do you do this or that, what are the steps? Sometimes I smile and say, “If I tell all my secrets…” Actually I have Mary Ellen Guffey to thank for her article, Five Steps to Better Critical-Thinking, [...]

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Creating the Perfect Training and Development Strategy

By Jack Shaw on April 11, 2013

Everyone who follows this blog knows that I tend to take a softer approach to training that at times may not seem as traditional or as typical of the training principles you are taught in school. I also don’t tend to weigh my page down with off-the-shelf products, although guest writers are more than welcome [...]

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Talent versus Performance and More

By Jack Shaw on April 8, 2013

Truly commentary. In a recent comment, I promised that my next blog would focus on talent and performance. Some see talent as something you have or you don’t. I don’t see it quite so black and white. I believe someone can have inherent talent (or a natural ability) and others have to work hard at [...]

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