(Scoll to bottom for tips on using Twitter for training.)Unless you've been living under a rock the last couple of years, you've probably heard of Twitter. When I first heard about Twitter, I didn’t know what the heck it was. Someone invited me to join, I logged in, created a free account and thought, “so what?” It really seemed like a nothing site to me, so I forgot about it. Then, six months later I began hearing about celebrities tweeting and politicians reading and sending tweets during State of the Union addresses. I cataloged it in my brain as another social networking site along with...

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Guess what The Brain and Behavior Blogger is having for dinner tonight.  CROW!!!! As he is wont to do, The B&B Blogger pulled somebody's chain - and that somebody (this time, eminent neuroscience researcher, Gyorgy Buzsaki) pulled The Blogger's chain back.  Here's how it went down... The B&B Blogger hyped a research project conducted by GB.  But, thinking that he caught a slight overstatement, joked that GB "got a bit full of himself" by claiming that the study was the first example of a well-defined pattern of activity in the brain that had been reliably and selectively eliminated. ...

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Eat, drink Think fast and be Merry? Okay.  It's 2:15 on the second full day of training.  The trainees are antsy.  Your jokes are flat-lining.   People are getting Carpel Tunnel from checking their watches.  You are desperate to change the mood.  NO PROBLEMO!!!!  Just make everybody think fast about something! Scientific American Mind reports on six studies conducted at Harvard and Princeton that all agree:  When people are required to think quickly about something, their activation level goes up and their mood becomes more positive.  See how fast you can Find Waldo.  Better still,...

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We recently had a client come to us looking for some ideas on a new distance education program. Their two main objectives were to reduce the costs associated with bringing groups in for live instructor-led training events, and to have a fun learning program that would be engaging to the younger demographic that they were trying to recruit. Their first thought was that Second Life would provide an optimal environment for rolling out this program. After some discussion though, we decided to take a step back and think about some other solutions that might meet their needs.

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TiER1 won a Davey Award for our Change Management Primer. http://www.tier1performance.com/change/ The Davey Awards are international awards that are targeted towards small businesses whose annual billings are less than $10-25 million a year. “The largest and most prestigious awards competition exclusively for the "Davids" of creativity.  David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little rock - the sort of thing small firms do each year. The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the "Creative Davids" who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than stratospheric...

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