This past weekend I did a presentation which was attended by part of the management team of one of the 2006 Fortune 500 companies.
I would like to say that management was so taken by my presentation that I was immediately offered a 6 figure salary to come train for them on a full time basis. Alas, such was not the case. However, I did get some positive feedback and a “feeler” about presenting to more of their staff at a future time.
But, to me, the most valuable portion of the exchange came as an aside comment.
A member of the management team was complimenting me on the quality of my visuals (a PowerPoint presentation) when he suddenly began to vent.
“Why doesn’t my staff understand how much more effective their trainings would be if they would include some visuals?”
He even alluded to an old quote attributed to psychologist William Glasser that quantified how much we learn in connection to how it is presented.
Here is the quote for the sake of posterity.
We Learn…
10%…of What We Read
20%…of What We Hear
30%…of What We See
50%…of What We See and Hear
70%…of What We Discuss With Others
80%…of What We Experience Personally
95%…of What We Teach Others
–William Glasser
This quote is an excellent adage to remember when preparing training for your staff (or evaluating training presented by your staff). Not only is it less work for us to empower others to teach the material and new concepts themselves it is a much more powerful learning tool than standing before a group as a “sage on a stage” delivering a lecture.
When training professionals I often use “jigsaw” techniques in which I split the audience into “expert” groups who take some time to work together to master the content before coming back together with the larger group to present on their specific area. They may not remember what was presented by all the other groups but they definitely master the portions in which they have been made the designated expert.
Reg Adkins writes on behavior and the human experience at (elementaltruths.blogspot.com).
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She will overlook the scholars and the producing of memories. She will overlook rehearsals and live performances and a brand-spanking-new promenade studio.Chiffon Bridesmaid DressesAnd she will overlook the costumes.
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Yes, 30 years worth of costumes that promenade educator Melanie Clifford loves so affectionately that she has even granted them names.
There are the attractive white Icarus dresses, entitled after a promenade about the feature in Greek mythology. Short Bridesmaid Dresses
And the classy prescribed attire for her “Fred (Astaire) and Ginger (Rogers)” vacation waltz. And the “Singing in the Rain” umbrellas.Tea-length Bridesmaid Dresses
“Some of them are entitled after scholars, because it was their dance,” Clifford says.Knee-length Bridesmaid DressesAll of this will be left behind as Clifford steps down this month from three decades as controller of the accomplishing creative pursuits promenade program at Ben Lomond High School.Square Bridesmaid Dresses
“It’s time,” states Clifford, whose go out stage left was provoked by a latest knee wound that departs her incapable to illustrate promenade steps to her scholars with the passion she accepts as factual is necessary.Long Bridesmaid Dresses“I can’t give them what they need,” she says.Even so, saying farewell is tough, because promenade has habitually been Clifford’s passion, from the time she was a 4-year-old dwelling in Iran and twirling about in bizare costumes to piano melodies performed by her mother.One Shoulder Bridesmaid Dresses“I habitually considered of myself as a dancer,” the graduate of Weber High School says. “Nobody ever notified me I wasn’t.”Strapless Bridesmaid Dresses
For love of dance
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“There are so numerous things to learn. I seem like I’m just graduating from high school afresh — what am I going to do?”Maybe she’ll discover to play violin, or choose up her guitar afresh, in addition to exercising to advance that knee and enjoying her family.V-neck Bridesmaid Dresses“I’m not going to educate high school promenade afresh, I’m going to promenade with my grandbabies instead,” the North Ogden inhabitant says.Not much promenading was going on at Ben Lomond High School when Clifford first reached in the drop of 1982.Sweetheart Bridesmaid DressesThere were only two promenade categories and not even a room where the scholars could practice.Mermaid Bridesmaid Dresses
“We danced to the melodies on the stage,” Clifford states, or if the theater scholars required to rehearse there, “I just educated while I could find a hall.”Spaghetti Strap Bridesmaid DressesBut by the next year, Clifford had a full program of promenade categories and her own studio. Bateau Bridesmaid Dresses
Today, the recipient of 1989′s Utah Dance Educator Award approximates she’s schooled more than 6,000 scholars in the art of up to date dance.
A broad variety of scholars have been drawn to Clifford’s program “for the love of the dance,” states Peggy Dooling-Baker, portraying primary of Ben Lomond High, and Clifford has assisted extend and elaborate their information and creativity.Scoop Bridesmaid Dresses“We just love her and we’re going to overlook her desperately,” states Dooling-Baker.But the program Clifford established and nurtured will proceed on. “We desire to construct on the base she’s granted us and make it stronger.”