For the past 5 years or so, Thiagi has been having fun at his keynote presentations by getting his audience members actively involved in a series of jolts. It is interesting to watch large groups of people standing up, milling around, and working on individual and partnership activities. It is not irrelevant fun and games, because Thiagi brings everything home through debriefing and connecting the experiences to key concepts related to his topic.
In this Vimeo video, Thiagi is at the annual conference of the Creative Problem Solving Institute. Thiagi (or his evil twin brother?) spontaneously picks up the theme of an earlier presentation on the importance of execution and gets everyone involved in exploring the topic in greater depth.
Watch the video and get some pointers for smoothly incorporating jolts in your presentations.
Thiagi is currently the Resident Mad Scientist at the Thiagi Group, Inc. He has been designing training games and simulations for the past 30 years and has conducted training in 25 different countries. His game-design workshops are held every year in Paris, Zurich, and Singapore. He has been the president of the North American Simulation and Gaming Association five different times as well as president of the International Society for Performance Improvement for two different terms. He has published 40 books designed more than 200 training games that are now used around the world.
(Note: If you can't see the video above, the original is on http://vimeo.com/46039538 )