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How to Stop Abusing Your Visual Aids

By Jack Shaw on November 15, 2011

Are Your Cave Drawings Distracting Your Audience? It is an abuse of a less serious nature, but important in the world of training and development, and of course, public speaking in general. I thought I’d dwell on a Cave Man basic of training a little. Using visual aids. My cave drawings were distracting my audience. Or, […]

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Speaking or Lecturing Between the Adult “Glee” Practice and BINGO

By Jack Shaw on November 14, 2011

It was an amazing experience. Perhaps, “amazing” isn’t the right word, but it was an experience I will never forget. Nor should you if you ever decide to speak or lecture on a cruise ship. Sounds like great fun to anyone who likes cruising and enjoys talking to groups. Even though I am an experienced speaker […]

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Egocentricity and the Stages of Man

By Jack Shaw on November 3, 2011

We all go through egocentric phases, and we need to understand them. We admit our audiences or trainees are all egocentric. The fact is that we all are, but we, as trainers, even need to see how we change over time and how it affects our decisions, attitudes and choices. Shakespeare’s quote never made more […]

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Macabre Humor: Strange but True Stories for Trainers

By Jack Shaw on October 31, 2011

Either I have weird friends or friends who just know weird things. To be quite honest, they know true, scary things. Not exactly Edgar Allan Poe but still interesting facts of history I thought I’d share on Halloween. Not exactly Cave Man stuff, but close. I’m thinking more 15,000 B.C., but we’ll find humor just […]

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When Companies Think They Are Too Smart for Customer Service…

By Jack Shaw on October 31, 2011

When companies think they are smarter than their customers it’s time to time customers learned how not to play their game. That’s right, I said it. We need to train customers; they just aren’t savvy enough. Actually, we, customers, probably are, but we don’t have the time to fight the companies taking advantage of us. […]

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The Cave Man Approach to Training: Basic Survival with a Smile

By Jack Shaw on October 30, 2011

Imagine training others, not only how to make the wheel, but how it could be used to make life easier. This trainer had a full-time job. He probably ate well, too, thanks to grateful people. I should probably explain the “Cave Man” thing. I wrote an inexpensive ebook called The Cave Man Guide to Training […]

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Training: Tricks or Treats?

By Jack Shaw on October 28, 2011

These Questions and Answers lay out in plain and simple–in Cave Man terms–how easy it is to be misunderstood. Not only be misunderstood, but be quite funny in the process–intentional or not. Enjoy. While I suspect this series of jokes hits the Internet every so often, the answers did make me smile so I thought […]

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Hybrid or “Blended” Education – After Week One

By Jack Shaw on October 27, 2011

“Why is that, do you think,” I ask my students, “we say blended instead of hybrid here? Usually the first thing a teacher, an instructor, a professor or a trainer does is write the class a welcome letter. I have just had my second class with two classes in different locations. One class is urban […]

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A Day in the Life – Hybrid Education

By Jack Shaw on October 24, 2011

Today, I start my first day as a professor of public speaking in a hybrid teaching environment. Oh, I’m not new to teaching–just the environment. Granted, it’s been awhile. It is both an exciting and daunting task. I won’t mention any names because it really doesn’t matter what institution it is; they are all relatively […]

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The Practical Side of Learning: the Human Factor

By Jack Shaw on October 19, 2011

It is assumed that once we have delivered the information to our students and trainees that they are ready to put them to use. Are students and trainees learning what we want them to and applying that learning when they should? The answer is a resounding, “No!” I was astounded a few years ago when I […]

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