Guest Facilitator

Thanks for asking! Different size and color Post-its are a mainstay for me. Colored markers or pens around. Depending on what you are teaching, it's nice to have a large table in the center of the room for discussion, then tables around the walls with computers on them so the cables don't get out of control. Make sure the sound system is good for the music and if possible, have it come from the back of the room (auditory people who might be bothered by the music tend to sit in the front). I pass out pipe cleaners occasionally for… >>>

Kevin - It's fun talking with you! I have also been accused by people in the same way. "Please don't use those silly tricks on the executives" - I do anyway, they love it. "Isn't Accelerated Learning just giving people little toys? Just playing music? Blah, blah?" Nope, AL is about using the individual way a person learns best to learn. Everything in my classroom may look 'fun and light' but it is (mostly) designed specifically to target brains AND meet the learning objectives. Games for games sake are wrong. Activities to improve evaluations are wrong. ANYTHING that improves learning… >>>

Kevin - Well, that's a pretty wonderful thing. I have always taught technical methods as well as software for awhile. Unless the learners can buy-in to the WHY - through a story of how a business will use it, or something - it can become pretty useless knowledge. I once knew a guy who memorized the LOTUS 123 keystrokes for file retrieve (/fr) never knowing what it meant. If he mistyped, he had no idea how to recover. The clock is tough on us in today's world - learning falls victim to it all to often. I like to say… >>>