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Jack Shaw

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Multifaceted Training for Supervisors: A Best Practice

Corporations, non-profits and any big organization–especially the financially strapped state and federal government agencies are…

Training & Development

“Wise Guy” Best Practices

After Best Practices comes Wise-Guy Best Practices. If I have to listen to another Best…

Improving Yourself

The Training Needs Assessment Disconnect

After 20 minutes, I nearly finished a 25-page online needs assessment for my organization before…

Training & Development

Power of Gazing in Training, Love and Other Matters

I am well advised of the power of gazing in everyday matters. One of my…

Training & Development

Why Isn’t All Training Like Training for Your Black Belt?

Why Doesn’t All Training Look Like Black Belt Training? We call it professional development training.…

Training & Development

The Creative Leadership No-Brainer, Part II

You have heard it all before every time business goes through a rough patch. “It’s…

Leadership Skills

The Creative Leadership No-Brainer, Part I

Even more creativity is going to be needed if we are to continue thriving in…

Leadership Skills

Training Insights: What Cavemen Teach Us

What Would a Caveman DO? : Training Insights How We Know What We Know About…

Training & Development

Training Brainstorm: Evaluating Trainers

Piggybacking on two of my latest blogs– Who Needs Training: Who Gets to Decide and…

Training & Development

Size Does Matter…When It Comes to Audience

It always happens to trainers who are well-versed in speaking/communicating in classrooms and smaller groups.…

Market Research

Who Needs Training: Who Gets to Decide

My last article about Was the Guy Who Won the Client’s Audition Better than You?…

Training & Development

Was the Guy Who Won the Client’s Audition Better than You?

This post fits loosely in the training and development category, I admit, but I think…

Online Marketing

Purposeful Stage Movement for Trainers, Speakers, Actors…

Although we could be seen as going off the training and development reservation on this…

Organization Development

Training Assessments: Personality Counts

Personality theory and tests are useful also for management, recruitment, selection, training and teaching, on…

Improving Yourself

When Learning Takes Place: PowerPoint vs. Presenter

Running a presentation skills seminar at a large federal agency’s training forum, I was impressed…

Training & Development

Training Solutions for the “Dumbest Management Concepts of All Time”

I just read an article on BNET, an online resource like the Free Management Library–no…

Training & Development