Banning Blu Tack from the Training Room!?
Fish and Chips – Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding –Horse and Carriage-
You can’t have one without the other! But modern, pristine and gloriously bedecked training rooms often have a big NO poster attached to the wall. No blu tack in here please! The alternative on offer is usually a perimeter clip rail with a grip so tight it either rips the paper or SNAP! –your fingers enter the mouse trap! Crazy and painful.
So what’s a trainer to do? By stealth you can ignore the rule but I always get caught. There is another method that I have successfully suggested to clients. Hang out the washing! Hang up the flipcharts!
A portable washing line erected from one side of the room and extendable to the other wall will, if safely located, facilitate a good display of the work produced. And provide a constant running record of the participants work during a session as well as keeping the housekeepers happy!
And if you have different themes being addressed by the group during the day a bag of bright coloured pegs will help distinguish contributions from one cohort and another, or between one topic and another.
Watch out though for the clown who decides to hang up his or her brolly/hat on the rail. There is always somebody ready to interfere!
But I still say hang out with flipcharts!
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8 年I've made the change to Masking tape recently holds way better and no after mess
I design and deliver engaging, thought-provoking learning that enables personal change and growth benefitting individuals, teams and organisations.
8 年I use white tack where the walks are white! Less obvious than blue
training and development manager at Courthall Care Wirral and Liverpool.
8 年I use magic white boards. sticks to wall without blue tack.
International facilitator & trainer
8 年I hate the stuff! (reminds me of chewing gum. Yuck!) I find it unacceptable that conference centres are happy to take our money, then tell us we can't put things on the wall (Doh! Then don't hire it out as a conference room....). I tell them that I will use a mild masking tape (which does not leave any mark or residue); in most cases that's acceptable to them. Alternatively, I will use 3M Spray Mount which will stick flips OK on flat surfaces. Your idea of a 'washing line' is a great one, but I don't get why they will let you secure a line, but not secure flips.