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Multiple Intelligence Training Tips & Strategies--Teleseminars, Podcasts, &... Published on 25/09/2009

Following are some training tips and strategies for when you're conducting a training teleseminar, Podcast, or a teleconference training call. Part of the obvious difficulty with teleseminars, Podcasts, and teleconferences is that you can't see your participants or audience; however, you can still present your information in a multimodal way. During this past year I conducted a six session...

Multiple Intelligence Training Tips & Strategies--Leading a Group Discussion Published on 25/09/2009

Multiple Intelligence is by no means applicable only to formal mentor training and coaching sessions or workshops. In this article I talk about how to tap The 8 Kinds of Smart in a group discussion to insure that you engage everyone's participation, input, and interest. The discussion method I want to share has four levels to it -- each matching the natural way our brain thinks when we're...

Mentor Training & Coaching: Results Of Using Multiple Intelligence Published on 25/09/2009

This is a story about some mentor training and coaching I did for a company in the Chicago area a couple of years ago. The company creates oil seals for the heavy-duty truck after market. They are a three hundred million dollar division of a major bearing company in Sweden. I remember the first time I did a training for them. There were about fifty managers in the room. I was to lead them...

How To Get Learning To "Transfer" and "Stick"! Published on 29/07/2009

I had a teacher when I was in high school who maintained that we had really learned something only when we could transfer that learning to other parts of the school curriculum and to other situations beyond the formal school setting. As a training professional, I feel there is some real merit in her assertion. In fact, I often evaluate the success of a training I'm conducting based on how...

Are You Using The Magic Of 'Multi-Modal' Teaching And Learning? Published on 28/07/2009

Have you ever felt that you were a really good learner but not necessarily in the way learning took place when you were in school? Did school sometimes make you feel stupid? Many of us feel this way, and because of this, many of us also feel that we must not be very smart. In formal education you basically learned to learn in two or three ways -- the famous "reading, writing, and 'rithmetic"...

2 Paradigms of Learning -- In Which Paradgim is Your Training? Published on 21/07/2009

The findings of contemporary brain-mind research have given us a shocking new picture of our potentials and capacities as human beings. Part of this area of research is the research into human intelligence: Just what it intelligence? How do we learn? What makes us smart? As professional trainers, mentors, coaches, and consultants it is critical that you make sure your training has made the...

Have You Turbo-Charged Your Training With These Teaching/Learning Strategies? Published on 20/07/2009

How often do you prepare and prepare and prepare and make what you felt was a brilliant presentation, only to have the participants leave grumbling about what a waste of time it was? How often do you knock yourself out to make a presentation interesting but as you look out at the participants you can tell their minds are off somewhere else? How often have you really given your all to...

Have You Started To See The Impact Of Multiple Intelligences On Your Business? Published on 16/07/2009

There are at least four areas where multiple intelligences impacts us as small or home business owners. 1. Developing Your Business Team or Business Partners Multiple intelligence gives you a whole new way to maximize the full potential of each of your business partners or each member of your team. You should not only encourage each team member to excel in his or her stronger intelligence...

Do You Know How To Reach Everyone, Everytime In The Training You Provide? Published on 15/07/2009

I am passionate about training, both getting as much training for myself as possible, and making sure that people on my business team receive the absolute best training possible. The training I pursue for myself is a matter of continual personal growth and development. I can always get better. There\'s alway more to learn that can help me be more effective as a human being, both in my...

10 Things To Look For When Choosing A Home Business Published on 26/06/2009

In the United States alone, more than 600 people get started in home businesses EVERY SINGLE DAY, and this number is growing as the economy continues to experience difficult times. You can get into everything from your own home-based travel business, to online stores, to designing websites for others, to network marketing companies, selling phone services, data-processing and data entry,...