Category: Subject Matter Experts

Professionalizing High-tech and High-stakes Training Techniques with Ex-military Personnel: A Case Study

Greg Owen-Boger
December 5, 2023 0 Comments
Picture of first responders receiving Turpin training

When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers and leaders are often pleasantly surprised by how team meetings become more efficient, leadership skills start to emerge, relationships blossom, and so on. We often hear that teams “Turpinize” their...

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Professionalizing Subject Matter Experts to Become Expert Trainers in a High-Tech Active Learning Classroom: A Case Study

Greg Owen-Boger
November 1, 2023 0 Comments
Room in which SMEs learn to facilitate expert learning

When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers and leaders are often pleasantly surprised by how team meetings become more efficient, leadership skills start to emerge, relationships blossom, and so on. We often hear that teams “Turpinize” their...

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Adapting to Your Default Approach for Better Business Presentations

Dale Ludwig
August 15, 2023 0 Comments
You man giving a Business presentations

One of the benefits of defining business presentations as Orderly Conversations® is that we can guide learners’ improvement based on their individual responses to the tensions involved. Fundamentally, this tension is between what’s required to make a presentation an orderly process and what makes it a spontaneous interaction. Let’s break that down. Presentations Require Order ...

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Emotional Intelligence (EQ): The Foundation of Great Leadership

Dale Ludwig
November 22, 2022 0 Comments
A young woman uses emotional intelligence during a staff meeting

If you’re a leader or an aspiring leader, emotional intelligence (EQ) is essential for your success. It helps you build relationships and communicate more effectively with the people you work with. In many ways, your reputation as a leader is built and maintained through meetings. Meetings may be, after all, the only time some people...

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When You’re Growing Fast and the Sales Team is Struggling

Greg Owen-Boger
August 5, 2022 0 Comments
Presentations

The consulting, medical, and financial services this client sells are not easy for decision-makers, coming from both healthcare and administration points of view, to grasp. The physicians-turned-salespeople needed to make their messages concise, persuasive, and easy to understand for people outside their area of expertise. In this series of Case Studies, we demonstrate how select...

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Building Facilitation Training Skills for Faculty Members

Greg Owen-Boger
July 1, 2022 0 Comments
training

When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers and leaders are often pleasantly surprised by how team meetings become more efficient, leadership skills start to emerge, relationships blossom, and so on. We often hear that teams “Turpinize” their...

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Dry Runs: The Key to Training Readiness in the Virtual World

Greg Owen-Boger
August 14, 2020 0 Comments
Dry run being conducted by a team virtually

In the post-pandemic world, the communication skills training we deliver takes place in both virtual and face-to-face environments. Surprisingly, as the pandemic wore on, we learned that, in some respects, virtual delivery is preferred. It’s easier to schedule and doesn’t require any travel costs. Face-to-face training still plays its role, of course, because it helps...

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4 Ways to Progress from a Trainer to a ‘Thinking Coach’

Dale Ludwig
April 12, 2018 0 Comments
4 Ways to Progress from a Trainer to a Thinking Coach

If you are a trainer or a SME who delivers training, one of your major responsibilities, and possibly one of your major challenges, is knowing how to use the conversation that takes place during training delivery to meet your learning goals. Some trainers welcome unplanned, spontaneous interaction with learners. Others prefer a more controlled Q&A...

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Consider the SME’s Strengths: from “Effective SMEs”

Greg Owen-Boger
March 12, 2018 0 Comments
effective SME

This is an excerpt from Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning.” In this excerpt Dale Ludwig (Turpin Communication’s Founder) and Greg Owen-Boger (Turpin’s VP) discuss the importance of designing learning to play to the SME’s strengths. Learning conversations do not necessarily follow a logical path from A to B...

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