The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook

"Choosing the learning that will move the business toward its strategic objectives, and then facilitating the learning as effectively as possible, creates the best return."

"Setting objectives with participants is a critical driver of learning?so critical that it needs to be the first thing done. "

"Avoid the temptation to force labels onto your learners; honor the diversity of your learners by recognizing individual uniqueness."

"Interpersonal intelligence is an aptitude for understanding other people and processing through interaction with them."

"You will find that learning events that are written for a highly technical (left-brain) audience need more facts and checklists, whereas workshops that are aimed at more big-picture (right-brain) audiences need more hands-on experiences."

"People who think they are novices may have learning ghosts that prevent them from seeing what they have learned."

"People remember the last experience or the last learning point."

"Accelerated learning challenges practitioners to rethink their labels and redefine their roles."

"It is critical that you create your own variation of a learning environment that works in your unique business context."

"Using music as a catalyst, we can set a tone of anticipation, alertness, humor, energy, focus, and reflection."

"Business reasons must drive learning objectives in corporate training."

"Corporate training people will admit that there really isn't a strong link between what the organization really needs to learn and what its employees choose to learn."