Dave Arch - Tricks for Trainers

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Presented and Developed by: Dave Arch The Bob Pike Group 7620 West 78th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55439 (800) 383-9210 or (952) 829-1954 www.bobpikegroup.com

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Tri cks for Trainers

D a v e Ar ch Dave Arch, best-selling author and internationally recognized speaker and conference presenter, has written over a dozen resource books for the training industry including the Tricks for Trainers library of books and videos, Red H ot H andouts, First Impressions/L asting Impressions, and Showmanshi p for Present ers . In addition to his popular Tricks for Trainers monthly column in the Creative Traini ng Techni ques Newsletter , he has also co-authored the books entitled Effecti ve One-On-One Traini ng, D eali ng Wi th D iffi cult Parti cipants, and Warming Up the Crowd . Currently two books containing his web-based interactive learning activities are being prepared for publication. Drawing upon 25 years of training experience, Dave travels for The Bob Pike Group customizing and presenting six different participant-centered seminars and conference keynotes including the seminars entitled Creative Training Techniques for Distance and Online Learning and Instructional Design for Web-based Training. Each year Dave’spresentations are enjoyed by over 20,000 people including featured national presentations at ASTD, Training, and Elliot Masie’s TechLearn conferences. His accomplishments in the training field are honored in the 1996-97 National Directory Of Who’s Who In Executives and Professionals, and his articles have been featured in Training and ComputerWorld. His pioneering work in web-based training delivery has been featured in Yahoo! magazine and the TIME Magazine’s online website. A partial listing of D ave’s clients include McDonald’s, Disney, AT& T, The National Education Association, The Internal Revenue Service, Kimberly-Clark, Norwest Banks, HealthSouth, Canada Postal Service, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.

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I n v is ib le Ba ll Tr i ck With a paper lunch sack and their imaginations, the trainees will be doing “invisible ball juggling” in no time! With a little musical background, it’s great fun as they actually hear the balls land in their sacks! What a fun imagination energizer this becomes! Pass out lunch sacks to everyone in the group and ask them to open them up and fold down the top as though there really was something inside the sack, reach in and pretend to take out a ball about the size of a ping pong ball. Have them hold it up so that others can see. While they continue to hold theirs, throw your ball in the air, watch it with your eyes and then have it land in your sack with a loud THUD! The secret to making the sound is to hold your sack between your two “snapping fingers.” Usually these fingers would be the tip of your thumb and middle finger. Hold the paper of the sack deep in the crotch of your thumb and snap your fingers. If you slightly drop your arm at the same time this snap is made, the illusion is perfect that something has landed in your sack! You can bounce it off the ceiling and catch it in your sack! You can bounce it off the wall and catch it in your sack. You can even bring two people to the front of the room, add a little music and watch your “invisible ball juggling” routine with one tossing it to the other and then back and forth again! Your group will have much run experimenting with the possibilities!

Taken from Tri cks for Trai ners Vol. I I by Dave Arch. All rights reserved. Used with permission. The Bob Pike Group. • www.bobpikegroup.com • (952) 829-1954

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P e r so n a l M a g n e t ism Any straight object (pen, knife, ruler, etc.) can be made to float! This is great for teaching how the details we don’t see often cause us to be misled! Rub a pencil on your sleeve as though trying to build up a high level of static electricity. Then lay the pencil across your left palm, holding it in place with your left thumb. Standing with your right side towards the audience, shake the left hand – holding the pencil with your left thumb. Continue shaking your left hand by grabbing your left wrist with your right hand. The back of the right hand is toward the audience. Turn so that your left side is now towards the audience and the back of your left hand is facing the audience. During that turn extend your right index finger into the palm of your left hand to hold the pencil. Stop shaking your left hand and slowly extend your left thumb so that the group can see that the pencil is sticking to your hand. As you swing back around so that your right side again faces the audience, pull back in your index finger and hold the pencil again with your thumb.

Taken from Tricks for Trai ners Vol. I by Dave Arch. All rights reserved. Used with permission. The Bob Pike Group. • www.bobpikegroup.com • (952) 829-1954

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Th e Tr a in e d Ru b b e r Ba n d If the story is told, a trained rubber band performs tricks by jumping in a most unexpected manner! Place a rubber band around the first and second fingers of one of your hands. Hold the hand up with its back towards the audience, the fingers extending upward. The rubber band should be loose enough for a small part of it to hang down on the palm side (figure 1). With the other hand, snap the palm side of the rubber band onceor twice. When you are about to snap it again, pull the band out and curl the fingers towards the palm so that they are all within the rubber band as in figure 2. Your hand should now be held in a fist with the back of your hand facing upward. Don’t show the audience that the band isnow on your fingers. Only show them the front part of your fist and it will appear as though the rubber band is still around just two fingers. Now straighten your fingers. Don’t spread your fingers as you open your hand. Don’t pull any of your fingers out of the rubber band. Instead, simply push the rubber band off your fingers by opening your hand. The rubber band will leave your first two fingers and be wrapped around your third and fourth fingers. You can make this even more mysterious by using another rubber band. After having the first rubber band in place at the base of your first and second finger, take the second rubber band and loop it around the tips of the fingers so that it ties the fingers together as in figure 3. Now it certainly appears as if it would be impossible for the rubber band to jump like it did in the first part of this routine. However, try it just like before and you will find that the first rubber band can jump just like before!


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Th e Ti ss u e Tr i ck The trainer claims that s/he has just learned a new magic trick that uses a tissue. Slowly s/he tears the tissue and clumsily switches the pieces for another tissue – claiming to have restored the tissue. However, during the trick, the group can’t help but notice during the switch the actual pieces have now fallen from his/her hand to the floor. Not to worry! S/He picks up the fallen pieces and restores them too! An added bonus idea is given using a piece of tissue paper with customized content printed on the paper! To prepare for this trick, roll two pieces of tissue into small balls and place them into your right pants or coat pocket. Place another piece of tissue (unrolled) into your left pants or coat pocket and you’re ready to begin. Reach into both pockets at the same time and remove the tissue from your left pocket, first waving it in the air as you shake it open. Also, secretly remove the two tissue balls from your right pocket hiding them as best you can in that hand. It’s alright if the audience begins to suspect something is in that hand. Use both hands to tear the piece of open tissue into small pieces rolling them into a ball. Place the ball into the top of your closed right hand in the opening closest to your thumb. Magically, wave your left hand over the right hand and then using that left hand remove one of the small secret balls from the opening of your right hand closest to your little finger. Act as though these are the pieces restored. Dramatically open this previously secret ball – indicating by your attitude that you have magically restored the tissue. While you are opening up this tissue, let the second secret ball fall from your right hand as though it were an accident. Act embarrassed and quickly step on the fallen ball as though to hide it from view. The audiencewill believe that the tissue now on the floor are the torn pieces you were hiding in your hand. In your embarrassment, quickly crumple up the open piece of tissue in your hands – roll it up along with the torn pieces still being held in your right hand. Place this packet away in your pocket and turn all your attention to the tissue under your foot. Reach down and pick up that tissue from the floor. Due to the fact that your foot has smashed it, there is no way for the audience to tell if the packet is the torn pieces or not. Taken from Tri cks for Trai ners Vol. I I by Dave Arch. All rights reserved. Used with permission. The Bob Pike Group. • www.bobpikegroup.com • (952) 829-1954

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Th e Ti ss u e Tr i ck (co n ’t . ) Make a magic gesture over the supposedly torn pieces and open out the tissue to show that they are restored too! An ADDITIONAL FOR APPLICATION has you introducing your subject by telling your trainees that you want to show them a little magic you’ve been practicing. By using pieces of colored tissue paper, instead of tissue, you can print words on the paper to help communicate your message. By way of example, you could tear up a piece of paper with the word “MEDIOCRE” on it (indicating your desire to rid the company of all such work). As you restore it, the paper now reads “QUALITY!” The pieces you pick off the floor have the words ‘WE CAN DO IT!” boldly printed on it! You’ve introduced your subject with an attention grabbing piece of magic!

Taken from Tri cks for Trai ners Vol. I I by Dave Arch. All rights reserved. Used with permission. The Bob Pike Group. • www.bobpikegroup.com • (952) 829-1954

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Fu t u r e Fo r e ca st The spectator has a completely free choice of three cards shown to him/her. In spite of this, the trainer has successfully predicted his/her choice beyond a shadow of a doubt! Take any three playing cards and place them into an envelope. On the back of one of the cards, make a large X with a permanent marker. On the face of the envelope write the name of one of the other cards (not having the X). Write the third card’s name on a piece of paper and place it into the envelope with the three cards. Begin the routine by simply saying that you have made a prediction of something that is about to happen. Remove the three cards from the envelope. Practice so that you don’t show the prediction on the envelope or the prediction on the card in the envelope or the X on the back of one of the cards. Now you will simply finish the routine in one of three ways. You can’t lose. You will be right no matter which card the spectator chooses. If s/he chooses one card, you will show that it is the only card with the X on the back. You have predicted correctly. If s/he chooses another, you will turn over the envelope and show the prediction matches the card the spectator chose. If s/he chooses yet the third card, you will remove the prediction from the envelope showing that there is no other card in the envelope. Again you have been correct! This routine really amazes even though it might seem simple to you as you read it! Afterwards, let your seminar participants brainstorm on how it might be done. It’s a great exercise in creative problem solving!


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