You can learn a lot on your own, but workshops are still relevant and important learning environments for adult learners. Seminars and workshops are great, but given the current economic situation, it's difficult for many people to attend full-day workshops, especially when participation involves transportation and hotel costs, etc. Duarte Design, which has run many successful workshops at their head office in Silicon Valley since last year, has In this post by Seth Godin, he list 45 ways that you can take charge of whatever professional situation you may be in and make a change.

Wednesday, May 20th (today for most of you) is the last day to get $100 off the fee for my presentation skills workshop. Today, it's $295. After that, it'll be $395. There's a 15% discount for non-profit organizations. Read more about the course at [link] I think you'll agree that it's very comprehensive.

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20 tips for better conference speaking ~ 16 February 2009 ~ View from on stage as I’m preparing to speak at An Event Apart New Orleans 2008. Though this list is geared towards one-hour sessions rather than panels and workshops, some of the same principles apply. Genuinely recommended by Authentic Boredom. 1 Jason Zimdars ~ 16 February 2009 Great I’ll be straight up with you: I don’t profess to be an expert speaker. I’ve had my share of presentations that have been total flops, along with some

Former conductor Itay Talgam today runs workshops to help people develop a musician's sense of collaboration, and a conductor's sense of leadership. As a leader — in business, education, or design — how much control do you need? How much can you give up? Is control even the right word?

Tony McNeil reports on a survey of 103 people from a conference on learning technology in April 2009: More than just passing notes in class? At Presentation Camp LA I tweeted this: Being stimulated by Jeanne’s acting workshop. Partly because it didn’t fit with the flow of the workshop and partly because I didn’t want to. The latest academic research on Twitter and conferences addresses the issue of “snarky tweets” during presentations. What should be the guidelines of what is acceptable and what is not?

Give a presentation, run a seminar, teach a class, or volunteer to run a small internal workshop to teach others in your organization what you are learning. Kaizen (??) means "improvement" — "kai" (?) means change/make better, and "zen" (?)

Here is a workshop that may interest you. This workshop will show you how to ritualise and energize your life though engaging with stories – those of your own and of others. This workshop experience will energize you. Related posts: The Halo and the Noose – stories in business life I recently attended the book launch of The Halo and... It is being run by two very good friends of mine, and it promises to be a first-class event. Find the Storyteller inside

Here is a workshop that may interest you. This workshop will show you how to ritualise and energize your life though engaging with stories – those of your own and of others. This workshop experience will energize you. Tags: Speaking Stories Workshops Toastmaster It is being run by two very good friends of mine, and it promises to be a first-class event. Find the Storyteller inside

Training and travel budgets are being optimized and understandably we’ve received an overwhelming number of requests to deliver our slide:ology workshop via webinar. We’ve broken the full day workshop into a series of six webinars , to be delivered on consecutive Wednesdays beginning May 27th. Tags: Event slide:ology training webinar worksho Times are tough. This much, we know.