The Ten-Minute Trainer: 150 Ways to Teach it Quick and Make it Stick!

by Sharon L. Bowman, Dave Meier (Foreword by)

Discover more than one hundred of Sharon Bowman's training-room-proven exercises and activities -- many derived from the high-impact strategies of NLP and Accelerated Learning -- and reduce delivery time, increase retention and improve knowledge and skill transfer. These back-pocket activities are easy, quick, topic-related, and fun, and you can draw on with a minimum of preparation. The Ten-Minute Trainer features a variety of exercises, ranging from one to ten minutes in length, and provides content-specific exercises as well as activities for transitioning between topics and gauging understanding. You'll find a useful answer section that explains the brain research behind the book and a special section on learning styles that ties in with the philosophy of "learn it fast and make it last." Order your copy of this effective resource today!

Genres: Teaching, Education, Nonfiction, Business, Reference

304 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2005

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

[Daniel Eika · Rating 5 out of 5]

This booke is an excellent read and will serve as a good reference work for whenever I am planning a training og workshop. Besides the many practical exercises, the book, just like “Training From The Back of the Room”, teaches the concepts by applying concepts from the book itself.

Highly recommended for anyone wanting to improve their teaching, training or any form of knowledge transfer!

[Harry Moskowitz · Rating 5 out of 5]

An eye opener for really teaching

I really appreciated the method the author used to introduce a great amount of concepts for teaching. The accent was on dialog and participation in many forms. I have incorporated so!e of the ideas in my presentation. Appears to have a positive effect.

[BookCupid · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book had some many good tips. I was instantly able to adapt a training I had to provide and received great praise. It's always important as trainers to keep our skills sharped. More than anyone, we all know that there is always something new to learn. Hope the author continues providing more tips.

[Mahmoud Ghoz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like this book and I wish that I have read it before reading the latest book for Sharon Bowman Training from the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn. This book is amazing and answers a lot of questions that I have while reading Training from the Back of the Room. This book is highly recommended for anyone who decided to work as a professional trainer.

[Antoinette Perez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good as far as training idea books go. More to it than the usual endless list of variations of variations of training ideas. The author does address some of the theories behind her ideas, most of which are widely accepted adult learning theories, but she makes them personal. I implemented two of the ideas in a training class I taught the next day -- one went over very well by making a big impact in a short amount of time, and the second was received more coolly. Could have been that I implemented it too late in the class, could have been that particular group didn't connect with it.

I can see using the book as a resource when designing and enhancing training in the future.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical strategies that can be readily applied right now.