Shake, Rattle & Roll: Using the Ordinary to Make Your Training Extraordinary

by Sharon L. Bowman

Toys, gadgets and gizmos, movement and metaphor. From simple, ordinary things, you can create extraordinary learning experiences for your students, audiences, and training participants. with Shake, Rattle and Roll, you'll discover over one hundred ways to make your training come alive with energy, excitement, meaning and memory.

Genres: Teaching

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 9, 1999

About the author

Sharon Bowman is the president of Bowperson Publishing & Training, Inc. She has been a professional speaker, author, teacher, and trainer for almost forty years. She works with businesses and educational institutions that want to offer exceptional in-house training and professional development programs.

Sharon is a popular speaker at both the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) and the Training Magazine Events annual conferences. She is the author of eight popular training books, including the best-selling Pfeiffer/Wiley books titled The Ten-Minute Trainer and Training from the BACK of the Room. Her newest book is Using Brain Science to Make Training Stick.

Sharon practices what she preaches by facilitating highly-interactive, informative, and unforgettable learning experiences. Whether the format is a conference keynote or breakout session, a half-day, full-day, or multi-day training, or webinars and other online learning venues, learners never sit long: they actively participate throughout the entire learning event. The experience is always EPIC: emotional, participatory, image-rich, and connected to their lives.

Join Sharon at one of her learning events and your teaching or training life will change forever!

Reviews

[Ed Schaefer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm preparing to take TBR-VE workshop in a few weeks by reading all of Sharon Bowman's books by publication date.

I enjoyed this book and found it easy to read. The structure was good to deliver a ton of practical ideas quickly. Some repeats from the previous books, but overall some great ideas.

Again the biggest limitation of this book is that it's a bit dated and focused on in-person sessions only. A lot of these ideas do work really well in person, but some are harder to translate to online.

I would definitely recommend this book for anyone who is doing in-person training or workshops of any kind to make them more engaging or interesting. If you are working in a remote environment you may get some interesting ideas, but there will be some action needed to translate and make effective.