Using a clicker doesn't mean you need to have it with you all the time. What I tell my students is that you use the clicker to teach the behavior and then you fade it.
For people who are uninterested in using the clicker itself I make them use the concept and replace the "click" with a vocal cue. The most popular word to replace the clicker with is "YES". You do everything just as you would were you clicker training only you use the word, (your positive marker if you want techinical terms) in place of the click. All your doing, with click or word, is "marking" the exact moment in time that your dog did whatever behavior you were after. The theory is that if you can snapshop the behavior the dog picks up on exactly what it is being rewarded for thus learning the behavior more quickly.
I personaly perfer to use a dog whistle,(adjusted so that I CAN hear it), just because my dogs are around other people and their clickers soooo often, but still revert back to clicker training from time to time. ALL of my dogs will work with just the vocal marker though.
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