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League Of Rock :: Music-Based Leadership Training

Leadership Training Taken To The Next Level...

Predictive Success Corp. Partners With League Of Rock To Combine World Renown Predictive Index Tool With Music-Based Learning

League of Rock is quickly becoming the de-facto standard in Music-Based Collaboration and Team-Building. Predictive Success Corp. is known nationally for assessment tools that turn self-awareness into practical business results.

EXPERT on Micro Expressions: Yann Van den Branden

Yann is a speaker on micro expressions and how you can use them to learn more about your 'opponent' in a commercial situation. Yann mostly teaches interactive sessions, trainings, workshops with real exercises for the participants or as a keynote speaker for a larger group. Yann has reference in large corporations in the pharmaceutical, banking, insurance and automotive world, from the USA over Japan to Russia. As an Actor he is also a member of the international business communication theatre group called YESSI JADA.

KISS THE FROG WINS FIRST FRESH AWARD

The first fresh award was won by Kristine Nygaard from Kiss The Frog, a Danish Graphic Facilitator. The Fresh award promotes tools and services that increase meeting effectiveness. Read more in the attached report. For an interview see attached report, for picture see attached pictures.

also  the FRESH website   

see VIDEO of the ceremony (10min)

Puppeteer as conference summariser: learning with humour...

Meeting / conference summary by puppets.. 
The performance consists of a satirical act, cut out specifically for the activity at hand. This can be a party, a congres, a company reunion, or … whatever might be the occasion. The Puppet Theatre is available in three languages (Dutch, French and English, occasionally mixed together). Essential is a good briefing about the event and the subjects through e-mail.

Right-Handed and Left-Handed People Do Not See the Same Bright Side of Things

ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2010) — Despite the common association of "right" with life, correctness, positiveness and good things, and "left" with death, clumsiness, negativity and bad things, recent research shows that most left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become an interesting case in which conceptual associations as a result of a sensory-motor experience, and conceptual associations that rely on linguistic and cultural norms, are contradictory.

Making the Invisible Visible: Verbal Cues Enhance Visual Detection

Cognitive psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California have shown that an image displayed too quickly to be seen by an observer can be detected if the participant first hears the name of the object.

Six Minutes Speaking and Presentation Skills

Six Minutes Speaking and Presentation Skills is a website with lots of resources for speakers. It is maintained by Andrew Dlugan, a Canadian speaker, trainer and coach. 

Dlugan is not a 'quick fixer', his information is sound and considered and as far as I can tell, in every way in line with current knowledge and science about what makes a good presentation.

He also publishes critiques of video recorded speeches, a very effective way to learn good speaking skills. There is also a form and some good advice on how to do your own critiques.

What Lectures actually achieve

Lectures have limits when used for education.

Lectures are a great way to share information. However they are not as effective as discussions for getting learners to think, develop attitudes or change behaviors.

Why Lectures?
In politics lectures are called speeches. In faith institutions lectures are called sermons. In colleges and universities lectures are called teaching. Most conferences begin with a cornerstone lecture often called a general session keynote.

New Computers Respond to Students' Emotions, Boredom

Emotion-sensing computer software that models and responds to students' cognitive and emotional states , including frustration and boredom, has been developed by University of Notre Dame Assistant Professor of Psychology Sidney D'Mello, Art Graesser from the University of Memphis and a colleague from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
D'Mello also is a concurrent assistant professor of computer science and engineering.

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