How To Give It So They Get It by Sharon L. Bowman

by Sharon L. Bowman

Join author Sharon Bowman as she helps you explore the ways you learn, teach, and train others. Packed with practical information and written in a reader-friendly style, this book will have you soaring with fresh ideas and renewed enthusiasm for teaching anyone anything and making it stick. Whenever you explain something to another human being, or teach that person something, or help him/her to learn something, you're a TEACHER and this book is for YOU!

Genres: Teaching, Nonfiction

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Sharon Bowman is the president of Bowperson Publishing & Training, Inc. She has been a professional speaker, author, teacher, and trainer for almost forty years. She works with businesses and educational institutions that want to offer exceptional in-house training and professional development programs.

Sharon is a popular speaker at both the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) and the Training Magazine Events annual conferences. She is the author of eight popular training books, including the best-selling Pfeiffer/Wiley books titled The Ten-Minute Trainer and Training from the BACK of the Room. Her newest book is Using Brain Science to Make Training Stick.

Sharon practices what she preaches by facilitating highly-interactive, informative, and unforgettable learning experiences. Whether the format is a conference keynote or breakout session, a half-day, full-day, or multi-day training, or webinars and other online learning venues, learners never sit long: they actively participate throughout the entire learning event. The experience is always EPIC: emotional, participatory, image-rich, and connected to their lives.

Join Sharon at one of her learning events and your teaching or training life will change forever!

Reviews

[Ed Schaefer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm preparing to take TBR-VE workshop in a few weeks by reading all of Sharon Bowman's books by publication date.

This is a useful and interesting book and I did enjoy it. I appreciate the structure - both of the writing/chapters and the 'flight plan' structure for designing training and workshops. It's longer than her first book and does provide a lot of great information for a facilitator.

Again this book does feel somewhat dated, and while the structure certainly can translate easily to remote working environment, I am not sure how many of the activities can be done well remotely. I think this is still greatly useful for helping with in-person workshops.

Looking forward to reading more of Ms. Bowman's more current works and excited to see what has been adapted or created to work in virtual settings.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a much better book (in my opinion of course) than her Preventing Death by Lecture. It discusses different learning styles and how to teach to more of them, and thus more students, in your classroom. While it is aimed toward teachers, this idea would be important to anyone presenting material to groups.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Persuasive guide to teaching others in four different styles. It will make learning much more fun for my sixth graders. There is a style map in the back that has easy to do activities that take no extra time, but hit all learners in the room