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I donated a day to return to my hometown of Crothersville, Indiana to present a lecture for an in-service meeting of the school’s teachers and administrators.
I have to admit that well before the program even started I was already feeling scared to death. Sitting in the front row was one of my former teachers!
Part of the problem I experienced was caused by my memories of the tremendous crush that I had during my elementary school years on this then-cute, petite very young teacher. On my return home, I naturally looked forward to seeing her again. However, the image in my mind of her was of the way she looked when I was in the third grade. Imagine my shock to see her now — 62 years old — and noticing that her stretch pants had no choice!
Of course, she was just as shocked…standing in front of her was not the skinny, bespectacled eight-year-old kid with the “burr” haircut of her memories. It was a mid-40’s guy with a mustache and a bit of a potbelly!
Being more that just a little nervous, I decided to start my presentation with a very standard question that many speakers and authors ask to begin a lecture to teachers. “Let’s start by having you tell me,” I said, “what you believe is the biggest problem is for educators in today’s world.”
I thought I knew the answers these teachers were going to give. Naturally, their biggest problems were going to be: 1) the discipline of the students, 2) encouraging the involvement of parents, 3) dealing with change and, 4) funding challenges in education.
Imagine my surprise when my former teacher raised her hand and declared, “Scott — I believe the biggest problem in education today is ‘Sesame Street.’” I immediately responded with a profound, “Huh?”
Calmly, my former educator asked me “Scott, who taught you your ‘ABC’s’?”
I answered truthfully, “Well, my mother and my grandmother.”
“Of course,” she said. “However, for the last 30 years, young people have been taught their ‘ABC’s’ by ‘Big Bird,’ and ‘Bert and Ernie.’ That means they arrive on the steps of this school for their very first day of formal instruction expecting to be entertained as they are educated.”
“Wow!” I thought. Then I realized, my elementary school teacher was still teaching me.
For the past three decades and more, we have taught everyone in this culture that education — as well as training, selling, motivating, managing, serving and everything else that a business is supposed to do, and everything else that is supposed to happen in life — will be integrated with a degree of entertainment.
In this age when most of us grew up learning our ABC’s from Big Bird and Cookie Monster rather than the disciplined rote and repetition of a former time, our fervent desire for a wise person – or distinct organization — to “tell us stories,” just continues to expand.
If you want to create traction – both in the marketplace and with your colleagues, you must communicate in a manner that engages, entertains, and creates interaction! Communication is infinitely more impactful when you tell your story!
Scott McKain is a successful business professional and speaker. He is the Vice Chairman of Obsidian Enterprises, and co-founder of the Value Added Institute.
McKain is the author of three #1 business bestsellers (Amazon.com): “Collapse of Distinction,” “What Customers REALLY Want,” and “ALL Business is Show Business.”
He is a member of the “Professional Speakers Hall of Fame” and “Speakers Roundtable,” an elite, invitation-only group of twenty business speakers considered to be among the best in the world.
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Gund Sesame Street 14-inch Bert $9.95 The Gund Sesame Street 14-inch Bert is a soft and cuddly companion for your baby…. |
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Sesame Street – Bert & Ernie’s Word Play [VHS] $5.38 The Muppets are putting on a play on words (get it?), a convenient framing device for a Sesame Street-style reading lesson. Get ready for some sticky, slippery fun when Prairie Dawn directs the G-rated vaudevillian act, complete with Bert and Ernie in straw hats telling corny jokes and a pie-throwing machine in fine working order. There are behind-the-scenes prop emergencies and a finale no-show, … |
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Sesame Street – The Best of Ernie and Bert [VHS] $9.98 Perhaps a better title for The Best of Ernie and Bert would be Visits with Ernie and Bert, since the daunting prospect of culling the choicest episodes from more than three decades of Sesame Street is subjective at best. Only eight skits are included in this 30-minute program, which may result in viewer disappointment as countless “favorites” have been omitted. Having said that, the chosen sc… |
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Sesame Street: A Golden Book Video Newly created, with high resonance audio and high resolution video. Dolby system on linear tracts…. |
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Sesame Street Alphabet Elmo & Friends – Wall Border / Accent $17.99 Sesame Street Mural Wall Art. Large 20 1/2″ x 61 1/2″ total licensed prepasted wallpaper accent. This item can be used as an accent or as a border. Many favorite Sesame Street characters are included on this item: Elmo, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, Snuffleupagus, Bert, Ernie, Count von Count, and Grover.This quality mural art is made in USA, not cheap imported material! This sale is… |
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Sesame Street – Bert & Ernie’s Word Play $4.67 Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/03/2003 Run time: 50 minutes Rating: Nr… |
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Sesame Street – Christmas Eve on Sesame Street $5.62 Its christmas eve on sesame street and everyone is joining in the excitement until a question from oscar throws big bird into a tailspin. How does a guy like santa claus whos built like a dump truck come down all those skinny little chimneys? Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 11/14/2006 Run time: 60 minutes Rating: Nr… |
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Sesame Street: Bert and Ernie’s Great Adventures $7.70 Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/20/2010 Run time: 50 minutes… |
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