David Yau & Associates

Combining my learning from the ASTD ICE 2007 and my own thoughts, I put together a speech in the ASTD conference in China this month. ...

Taking advantage of the offsite meeting this weekend, I gathered all the trainers right before the offsite meeting.  It was not easy to...

Here is another Right After Class (RAC) session. As said, I just record whatever I feel after the class. Not exactly for learning...

I am thinking to start another series of post and I will call it RAC. I will record whatever comes to my mind right after I adjourn a...

There is no magic. I can guarantee you that your presentation performance will improve simply arriving early at the scene. My experience...

To illustrate my previous post of the same topic, here is a real example which one presenter used in the Toastmaster lunch session this...

Underlying Problem – Presentation to a lot of people in organisations that I have worked is equal to ‘I tell you something’. They would...

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...

I was an observer for an advanced level technical knowledge training class recently in Shanghai.   The trainer is an ultra-experienced...

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

Recently, there are 2 occasions which educated me how I should (or should not) react when participants mis-behave. Here is the first...

I am running a presentation class in shenzhen this week. Like many presentation class, the participants have the chance to present for a...

I ran a 5-day training course last week. More than a trainer, I was a course coordinator who composed some 15 SME (Subject Matter...

'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 argue we should not give to the participants the handout before the class, because they will focus on the handout instead of...

In a session of ‘Top 10 questions which trainers ask’, I asked Bob Pike who is a well known figure in the corporate training field a...

I am now in the Chicago airport waiting for my connecting flight back to Shanghai. Contrary to my original plan, I did not write my blog...

ASTD 2007 International Conference & Exposition next week in Atlanta. I very much look forward to experiencing it and sharing with what I...

This was the question wandering in my head before my trip this week in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The background is that the organization I am...