Reduce road rage on the way to training with scented electronic chips in the car. Lose weight while working at the computer with a program of scent sniffing. Most of us take our ability to smell for granted until we get a cold. Aromas are a normal part of the breathing process but we are usually unaware of how the smells we breathe in impact our behavior. We receive little education about the sense of smell even though it is an important part of our biological, psychological and cultural make-up.
Instructors can enhance learning easily and inexpensively with a small collection of aromas.
Remember that you as the trainer can use aromas to energize or calm yourself as well as the trainees. The Cultural History of Smell by Constance Classen et al, Routledge, 1994. Lawyer Hiring and Training Report, Feb. 1992, p. 14. The Smell Book by Ruth Winter, Lippincott, 1976. A Cultural-Historical Study of Olfactory Perception in Literature by Hans Rindisbacher, University of Michigan Press, 1992.