David Yau & Associates

Course: A presentation skill class Date: 17-18 Sep 08 Location: Beijing # of Learners: 8 I am feeling: Good Course: An influencing skill...

Course: 1 day influencing skills course Date: 21 Aug 08 Location: Shanghai, China # of Learners: 20 I am feeling: Good The class was...

Course: A one-day workshop Date: 6 May 08 Location: Shanghai, China # of Learners: 20 I am feeling: Bad I was co-facilitating a one-day...

This is a follow-up post to my last 2 which are also about business simulation. I talked about my recent experience in a board game...

Underlying Problem – You are running an in-company product briefing. You want some interaction to engage the audience. You plan to do...

There are some more learnings in class facilitation from my Singapore trip which I want to share. It is another small but...

Do you like the economists? Not many people do. At least it is claimed by one of the prominent economists himself – Robert Frank, the...

Audience can get bored when you talk for some time. And this happens earlier than you think (or wish). It is around 18 minutes. ...

My another learning from "The Articulate Executive - Learn to Look, Act, and Sound Like a Leader" by Granville Toogood. - it is about...

With the 7 days of holiday in the Spring Festival, I can now have more time to work on my blog. One thing is about the books I...

Today is the first day of the Year of Rat. (Yes, it is your year if you were born on 1996, 1974, 1962…) It is also the start of the...

Shanghai continued to snow very heavily. In fact, the snow on the night of 2 Feb was said to be the heaviest in the last 50 years!! See...

Further to my last post, let me compare the virtual classroom facilitator to the radio DJ. The following TO-Does come to my mind: Keep...

Course: A 2-hour management skills discussion Date: 24 Jan 2008 Location: Internet # of Participants: 21 I am feeling: Exciting It is the...

One great thing about Singapore is the food, especially the local one. I went out with a few other facilitators for fish ball noodle a...

Let me share another piece of learning from the workshop. I learnt it from a fellow facilitator who was being TTT-ed there as well. He...

I attended a 6-day TTT course for a management course in Singapore last week. I learnt a lot from it. I wish I could have shared my...

I learned of the new Apple laptop yesterday - MacBook Air. Very cool! And shortly after the product announcement in MacWorld, I read a...

I recently designed a one-day course with purpose to equip the line trainers with basic facilitation skills. I basically wrote the...

I am writing this on my flight from Shanghai to Singapore to attend a TTT course. Before the take-off, there was a safety demonstration...