Training That Soars!

Make Your Slides Interactive!

This mini-tutorial will bring your slides alive.

How Well Can You Read Facial Expressions?

To successfully train, facilitate and present, you need a high degree of Emotional Intelligence (EQ.) Take this quiz to measure one aspect of your EQ!

5 Tips for Successful Meetings

1. Begin With a Firm Meeting Outcome.

What will be different by the end of your meeting? If you can't state this, don't hold the meeting.

2. Encourage Open Discussion.

Studies find that meeting leaders tend to speak 50% of the time. Shun this tendency! Pull, don't push.

3. Press for Closure.

Once you start talking on a subject, discuss it thoroughly but press for closure.

4. Summarize at the End of Each Discussion Point.

What has been decided? Who's going to do what and by when?

5. Keep a Record.

Distribute concise minutes from the meeting within 24 hours.

Bring Guila's 1-day session, Making Meeting Work, to your workplace!

Instructional Design That Soars

The KITE

Hundreds of Guila's students create workshops, classes and seminars using the Kite method of instructional design. Using the Kite makes creating courses for adult learners easy and fast.

Here are some success stories from 2012:

A public library system designed workshops and trained hundreds of community members to use computers and electronic readers.

A nationally known non-profit developed training on community safety for people over fifty years old.

Technology trainers in a major hospital used the Kite Method to improve training on electronic record keeping . Their students reported that the training was now much more interesting, active, and beneficial.

See how you can create dynamic classes that inspire adult learners.

Winner of Our
"Right Foot"
HOOK Competition

Scott Wuerch of RCU in Wisconsin wins the $25 Starbucks card for his Hook:

Have your class sit with both feet on the floor. Ask them to lift their right feet off the floor and begin to make clockwise circles with it (demonstrate.) Once they are doing this, instruct them to raise their index fingers and draw the number "6" in the air. (They will not be able to; their feet will will change direction.)

Why can't even the most accomplished multi-tasker do this?

While many of us feel that we can multi-task, brain research tells us that our brains can only pay attention to a finite number of tasks at any one time. What we call 'multi-tasking' is simply dividing our concentration into smaller and smaller chunks. As a result, we spend more time trying to 'get back on task.' We actually accomplish less.

In today's class, we will learn techniques that will allow you to accomplish more. You will also develop work habits that will allow you to concentrate of the project at hand.

Congratulations, Scott!

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