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Susan Articles

• The Dos and Don'ts of Creating Training Materials
• How to Find Content When You Need It
• Leadership: A Call for Acknowledgement and Uniqueness
• Attracting Perfect Customers
• Where Do I Sit?
• Team Activity – Spirited Role Clarification
• Development Time
• Imagination and Brainstorming Bring Immediate Results
• Just Because I Can: The Secret
• What Does "It" Look Like?
• Facilitator, Trainer, or Presenter?
• Dinner with Thiagi
• Do You Remember?: The Interviewee’s Comments

Designing, Training, and Presenting | Training Games and Activities
Personal / People Competencies | Organizations | Alphabet Soup

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Designing, Training, and Presenting

• One Way Designing Training Works
• My First Client
• The Dos and Don'ts of Creating Training Materials
• Use It or Lose It!  Creating Support Materials That Impact Your Message
• Visual Aid Madness: How to Effectively Interact with a Visual and Stay on Track
• Why Your Employees Fear Training
• Training Roadies Secrets: Tips for Newbies
• Leadership in Three Simple Steps
• Documentation as a Training Tool
• Training Is Not an Option
• How to Find Content When You Need It
• PowerPoint: Learning Help or Hindrance
• Well, I’m No Einstein But…
• Quotes To Take Action Upon
• Training Myths
• Development Time
• Team Teaching – Playing Doubles Tennis
• Providing Effective Training
• Facilitator, Trainer, or Presenter?
• Designing Training Materials

Training Games and Activities

• Quiz Review
• Case Studies
• Brainstorming
• Easy Ways to Keep Participants Engaged
• Want to Know More?
• Table Top Activity
• Group Discussion
• Quick and Easy Ice Breakers
• Where Do I Sit?
• Team Activity – Spirited Role Clarification
• Imagination and Brainstorming Bring Immediate Results
• What Does "It" Look Like?
• Dinner with Thiagi
• Do You Remember?: The Interviewee’s Comments

Personal / People Competencies

• Getting a Raise Is Easy…If You Know How to Ask For One
• Agenda Additions
• What? A Meeting Agenda?
• What Has Happened to Face-to-Face Dialog? Getting Back to the Personal Basics
• It’s Job Hunting, Not Job Wishing
• Performance Feedback: As Easy As Stop, Drop, and Roll
• Being Aware
• How to Deliver Customer Service Like an Athlete
• Communication: What's the Best Way
• Hallmarks of Effective Leadership Coaches
• Motivation Means More Than a Ham
• Does your Communication Style Make or Break You?
• How to Increase Your Selling Effectiveness to Generation Y
• Excellent Time Management Is Vital For Success
• Enhancing Your Emotional Intelligence for Success in Business
• Building Winning Business Teams: Using the Power of a Vision
• How to Resolve the Morale Issue Work
• Are You Worrying about Retention During the Recession? You Better Be!
• Leadership Is the Future, Management Is the Past
• Lessin' Your Stressin'
• Secrets of Leadership Success
• The Eyes Have It! Is it Eye Contact or Connection?
• Game Day
• How to Build a Successful Lead Generating System
• The Worst and Best Electronic Communication
• Employee Morale: 5 Quick and Easy, Low-Cost Ways to Increase Employee Motivation
• Most Training Fails: A QBQ (The Question Behind the Question) QuickNote
• Enhance Training with Analogies
• Prejudice
• Multi-Generations at Work – Where the Sum is Greater than its Parts
• Leadership:  A Call for Acknowledgement and Uniqueness
• Lessons Learned from the Inside
• Define the Non-Negotiable
• A Two-Step Process for Accelerating Your Success
• Agreeing to Disagree Still Works
• Seven Steps to Getting Started with Goal Setting
• It’s About Trust
• Coping with the Resident Witch
• Recognize this Woman?
• Enthusiasm! @ Work
• Enthusiasm! @ Work - Timely Tips
• Building Your Own Board of Directors
• The One Thing You Must Do Every Time You Make a Speech
• Our Love/Hate Relationship with Networking
• Generosity of Spirit - The Lubricant in Successful Business Relationships
• Managing Conflict Across Generations
• Can People Really Be Motivated?

Organizations

• Six Sigma: Achieving Near Perfection
• Social Media: Risk or Reward – What Can HR Do?
• Six Sigma 101
• Why Performance Evaluations Are So Painful
• Creating a Best Practice L&D Organization
• What Cultures Are at Work in Your Workplace?
• Procedure Is Not Punishment
• HR versus Vendors: Why This Needs to Change
• Why Your Organization’s Culture Matters
• Meeting Minutes as Living Documents
• The Holy Grail of Full Team Engagement
• Build Productivity and Profitability with Effective Workplace Design
• Understanding Change
• Bringing People, Processes and the Workplace Together to Create High Performance Work Environments
• Creating a Powerful Project Vision
• A Guide to Strategic Planning
• Outsourcing Success: Getting the Right Start
• Partnering with a Purpose: Does Your Company Pass the Strategic Readiness Exam?

Alphabet Soup

• Being Aware
• Attracting Perfect Customers
• New Year Change-Up
• Strategically Expand Your Influence… Use Handwritten Notes to Build Connections
• The Power of Appreciation…Handwritten Notes Can Increase Influence and Trust
• Law of Attraction in Action
• The Top Ten Joy and Money Tips for 2007
• Just Because I Can: The Secret

		"Susan’s contribution to the 2006 Sourcebook is just one of many exciting games and activities that can enhance an organization’s training initiatives. Susan does a great job of blending content with games and activities to make it applicable to the learners. She also incorporates Jolts, some of my favorite activities, in her training materials. We are fortunate that she is willing to share her talent." - Mel Silberman, Ph.D., Active Training more Testimonials

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