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From Boring to Interesting - Making Training Effective
by mobilka on Apr.13, 2009, under free, gadgets, seo
From Boring to Interesting - Making Training Effective
Being a good trainer requires experience and skill. Experience comes from practice and skill from learning the theories, applying them, getting feedback and consciously improving.
Some things that will help you improve are:
- Know your target audience - what’s in it for them? What do they expect? Why are they attending your training?
- Sometimes go back to basics - it’s a good chance to reevaluate your performance
- Find ways to generate interaction and get your participants doing something
- Provide as much variety as practicable
- Demonstrate where possible - it will save many words
- Use humour wherever possible. If associated with analogies, this can help participants recall specifics
- Consider your training as a marketing exercise
When you prepare your session (you DO prepare don’t you?) think of it in terms of you having to make a sale. I know this sounds odd, but when you think about it, you are trying to ’sell’ someone the ideas you are putting across. So there’s much we can learn from the art of salesmanship or marketing.
Think along the lines
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