I think we have all experienced presenters, and ideas from those presenters, that engage us enough that we don't wander back to our "distractions".
(grin) It's nothing to do my presenting. I'm talking about trying to get people to listen to each other. I'm just trying to get people to have normal high-functioning interactions with each other. But they're too distracted by, well, themselves.
They ask us how successful teams operate, so we tell them they all work together -- co-located. So everybody shows up in same room and spends all of their time electronically engaged somewhere else.
I have an instrument rating for flying airplanes. It's one of the most difficult pieces of technology to manage for a single pilot flying alone in hard IMC. And it's life or death. Pilots have to learn this attention span management skill to a much higher level than most people.
What I'm seeing is that technology is becoming more and more distracting, while the human brain 1.0 is still wired for face-to-face caveman communities.
But I'll work on my presentations too. : ) I'm afraid you're stuck with my loquaciousness.
Perhaps you should mention this to the Colgan training co-ordinator. I don't think the CO 3407 crash had anything to distract the pilots other than their own conversation.