Active Training for successful learning requires us to be aware of myriad details. This book opens with two hundred tips that address many of these details. The tips cover everything from opening to closing a classroom session and include introductions, storytelling tips, and presentation tactics. The tips provide ideas for becoming an engaged facilitator, keeping learners focused, and addressing challenging situations. The top 10 lists in this chapter, 20 of them with over 200 training tips, summarize best practices and ideas for how to address some of the issues and challenges that are faced. Some of the best trainers in the world are tapped for these tips to make life easier. Mel believed that having organized lists of ideas in one place makes job easier. Mel Silberman was the originator of the “Top 10 Training Tips” in his 101 Ways to Make Training Active books.