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Training Humor and Tricks
3:03 PM EDT 6/20/04
I find that using a little bit of humor when conducting training puts everyone at ease. Just curious, to see who else incorporates humor... and what types of "jokes" do you use regularly.
Or perhaps you have a training trick that you find especially effective! Please share!
One of the ways that I use humor is by incorporating cartoons in to my powerpoint slides.
One of my tricks is to use what is known as the "parking lot" for questions that are inappropriate or off topic. When the person asks the question, I write in on the white board for us to go back to at the end of class is their is time. This way the question is acknowledged and validated and I can keep moving with the curriculum. If we run out of time, I talk to the person one on one after class and answer their question or offer to email them an answer.
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RE: Training Humor and Tricks
3:03 PM EDT 6/20/04
as a reply to Janie Hermann.
Please share with me... I need a new bag of tricks to keep my classes lively and entertaining.
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RE: Training Humor and Tricks
3:03 PM EDT 6/20/04
as a reply to Janie Hermann.
Hey!! I love incorporating humor in my sessions. I don't have any specific jokes that I use over and over. For certain classes, I have standards that I use, but they usually come into being after teaching that same workshop at least once or so. Then I pull things out and make them funny. One example of this: I have been teaching classes on Filtering lately and I show the participants the worksheets on ALA's CIPA site. I tell them that the excel spreadsheets which are there have the cells pre-programmed with equations so there is no adding/subtracting/dividing that they have to do. I usually say to the participants "Now, I had a librarian, not in YOUR state, call me up and say that she printed out the forms and didn't understand why after she started filling it out, that they form didn't add up the tally for her." Now, this usually makes them laugh incredulously like - "no way. That didn't happen", but it also lightens the mood. So perhaps it's bizarre humor, but they seem to like it. So, hopefully they don't read this because now they will know that I told a white lie to make them laugh.
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RE: RE: Training Humor and Tricks
3:03 PM EDT 6/20/04
as a reply to Janie Hermann.
He.He. That's really cute. I like that one because even if it's a white lie, it gives people an impression: that they are tech savvy, at least more than that!
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