Every so often you learn something that permanently transforms the way you think about how you do your work.  I certainly did a few months back.  And if you design training, I think you may as well.

I had the pleasure of traveling to Saudi Arabia to co-teach The Effective Facilitator.  I have been teaching this particular course for nearly two decades and we continually update our methods and instructional processes. Teaching in a foreign country is always fun and it is not unusual to have people positively overwhelmed with the rich content and highly practical techniques that we teach in this course.   

So I was not at all prepared when, at the end of a practice exercise, a participant said,

“Well, obviously you didn’t teach that very well.”

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