Show Biz Training : Fun and Effective Business Training Techniques From the Worlds of Stage, Screen, and Song

entertainers And Trainers Have A Lot In Common. Both Require An Audience. Both Require A Polished, Professional Delivery. And Both Mustattract -- And Keep -- Attention. Or Else The Show Is Over. Unlike The Audience At A Show, Training Participants Are Often Disinterested And Easily Distracted. In Order To Keep Them Tuned In And Help Them Retain Information, Trainers Are Constantly In Search Of New Ways To Engage Learners. Grounded In The Latest Adult Learning And Training Theories, show Biz Training Provides Creative Techniques That Use Comedy, Props, Magic, Theater, And Music, Giving Readers All The Tools They Need To Perform The Many Activities Found Inside. The Book Uses Specific Examples And Provides Step-by-step Instructions, Resource Lists, And Worksheets To Help Trainers Support And Further Learning By Engaging Emotion, Building Rapport, Creating The Proper Atmosphere, And Crafting Lessons Out Of A Host Of Entertainment-inspired Ideas. Packed With Fun, Original Concepts For Serious Educators, show Biz Training Is A Highly Informative Way To Set The Stage For Exciting, Effective Learning. lenn Millbower (davenport, Fl) Is An In-demand Speaker For Professional Conferences And The Author Of training With A Beat And cartoons For Trainers . He Spent Years As An Instruction Designer For A World-famous Entertainment Organization Located In Orlando, Florida. The lights dim. The curtain rises. And a hush falls over the room, as a crowd full of people eagerly focuses on the presentation about to begin. What's just been described? A Broadway show? A night at the opera? How about one of your training sessions? In Show Biz Training, instructional designer Lenn Millbower reveals how you can use the secrets behind comedy, music, magic, and theater to keep your audiences rapt. Featuring step-by-step instructions, the book gives you attention-grabbing entertainment techniques to engage your participants and keep them listening. You'll learn smart, fun methods to create a playful and stimulating atmosphere, inspire generation of ideas, provide visual learning cues, and engage your learners emotionally. The book uses specific examples grounded in the latest adult learning and training theories, and provides dozens of resource lists, ideas, and worksheets. Packed with original concepts for serious educators, Show Biz Training shows even the most performance-shy educators how to develop their own star quality, put a little of the old razzle-dazzle into their training sessions, and achieve outstanding, show-stopping results. Entertainers and trainers have a lot in common. Both require an audience. Both require a polished, professional delivery. And both must attract -- and keep -- attention. Or else the show is over. Unlike the audience at a show, training participants are often disinterested and easily distracted. In order to keep them tuned in and help them retain information, trainers are constantly in search of new ways to engage learners. Grounded in the latest adult learning and training theories, Show Biz Training provides creative techniques that use comedy, props, magic, theater, and music, giving readers all the tools they need to perform the many activities found inside. The book uses specific examples and provides step-by-step instructions, resource lists, and worksheets to help trainers support and further learning by engaging emotion, building rapport, creating the proper atmosphere, and crafting lessons out of a host of entertainment-inspired ideas. Packed with fun, original concepts for serious educators, Show Biz Training is a highly informative way to set the stage for exciting, effective learning. "In Show Biz Training, instructional designer Lenn Millbower reveals how you can use the secrets behind comedy, music, magic, and theater to keep your audiences rapt. Featuring step-by-step instructions, the book gives you attention-grabbing entertainment techniques to engage your participants and keep them listening. You'll learn smart, fun methods to create a playful and stimulating atmosphere, inspire generation of ideas, provide visual learning cues, and engage your learners emotionally." "The book uses specific examples grounded in the latest adult learning and training theories, and provides dozens of resource lists, ideas, and worksheets. Packed with original concepts for serious educators, Show Biz Training shows even the most performance-shy educators how to develop their own star quality, put a little of the old razzle-dazzle into their training sessions, and achieve outstanding, show-stopping results."--BOOK JACKET Provides instructions, resource lists, and worksheets to help trainers support and further learning by engaging emotion, building rapport, creating the proper atmosphere, and crafting lessons out of a host of entertainment-inspired ideas. This book provides creative techniques that use comedy, props, magic, theater, and music.