David Yau & Associates

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...

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...

Course: A presentation course Date: 22-23 Jan 2008 Location: Seriously cold in Shanghai, China # of Participants: 8 I am feeling: Good I...

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...

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...

A reader asked me recently why this blog is called ‘Ask, Not Tell’ (or ANT as I call it sometimes). I am embarrassed to realise that I...

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

A new thought from a 3-day management course which I am conducting this week. There was a team-problem solving activity which requires...

7 Habits of Highly Effective People‘. They all speak quite highly about it. You may have heard of a book of the same name by Stephen...

Another reflection about the relationship with the participants – if you find the participants ‘mis-behave’ e.g. walking in and out all...

If you have read my previous posts about participants’ mis-behavior, you know that this issue is dear to me (and I think to all trainers...

My organisation puts together a Toastmasters demo session today and I went to find out what it is actually about. I have heard about it...

It took me quite some time to finish this book, and more importantly, to comprehend the content since it is a bit wordy and some ideas...

Thiagi is another great person I met during the ASTD conference. And more importantly, his website thiagi.com. There are a lot of...

Last week, I was in Singapore attending a 5-day management training. There was a facilitator from Indonesia with his own unique style...

'The person doing the most talking is doing the most learning’ – a great quote I learnt from Sharon Bowman during the ASTD conference....

I always remind my presentation class participants that you should avoid letting the screen / powerpoint to be the focus of your...