One of my favorite audience activities, which always revs up everyone's brain power and gets loads of laughs is a funny picture contest. I also use contests to engage my "Safety Stuff" subscribers. In future blogs, I’ll pass on [...]
Just got back from speaking at the Second Annual ErgoX Conference in Orange County, CA. Excellent conference and the audience was stimulating, intelligent and fun. The 2017 ERGO-X Conference is June 17 to 19 in Tampa Florida. If you're involved in the field of ergonomics in [...]
Here's an excerpt from my booklet Spice It Up! 52 Easy Ways to Turn Your Safety Meetings from Bland to GRAND!" in the final section on "The Ending." For more info about this helpful product: Spice It Up! TIP #44--Don't [...]
During my "Spice It Up!" seminar and talk I use cockroaches as a metaphor for things everyone dislikes during safety meetings and training. Well here are seven safety-meeting roaches safety presenters should squash: #1 Pontificating Nobody cares about the rules--not really. Pontificating [...]
This time last week United flight #14 was bringing me back from Hawaii. I gave the opening keynote at the state chapter of the ASSE’s annual convention on Monday. Though I have fond feelings of my home, coming back to [...]
Last Thursday I spoke to the leaders and other employees at ExxonMobil’s Clinton NJ research site. When I took out my computer back at my hotel an hour before I planned to leave for the site, I couldn’t find the [...]
It was a romantic evening on the strip in Vegas. Well, at least it was while I was walking along the canal outside the Venetian. I stopped to watch the gondolas slowly skim over the water that was lit up with a [...]
Have you ever tried to catch a chicken? I have. It's hard. One day my wife, Jackie and I were driving near our home, and there was a featherless chicken along the side of the road (it had fallen off [...]
"When it's foggy in the pulpit... it's cloudy in the pew."--Robert Cavett, founder of the National Speakers Association People like to know what they are going to get--before they get it. When you stand before an audience and ask for [...]
People want to be satisfied. That's why "satisfaction guaranteed" is a catchy and enticing selling phrase. Whether it's tires, ice cream, or a new and revolutionary hair replacement system--if the product satisfies, more often than not it will be a successful seller. [...]