How to engage your audience & WHY?

How to gauge and respond to your audience’s expectations and interests & HOW?

How to gauge the pre-knowledge of the group and encourage them to contribute their knowledge to the group – WHY?

What is your learning style and how does it impact on your training style?

How to keep your training style fresh and relevant

How to present well to the group

How to effectively facilitate the group

How to create an effective learning environment

How to grab the group’s focus

An alternative to ‘death by Power-Point’

Different resources to encourage interaction & promote increased energy levels

Brain Gym exercises – so you can energize the group at any stage in the day and deliberately target what you need the group to be doing

Six different ways with playing cards to get your group interacting – break up the cliques, get the energy moving, get positive thinking happening

How to combat nervousness, encourage excitement in learning and keep your participants focused

Creative Session Openers – generating excitement about the learning possibilities

Overcome negative mindsets – so behavioural change is possible and they don’t give you a hard time

VAKT – how to build these perceptual modes into your sessions – your participants will be immediately engaged

Generate movement in the training room – gets the energy up, engages mobile learners, and minimizes boredom and distractions

Keep them awake after lunch – so when you are on the graveyard shift your sessions have vitality and impact

Keep the group on task – so you get through the material and are not high-jacked

Six fun ways of appointing scribes and relieving tension – so people are having fun doing necessary tasks

Build positive experiences – so people leave feeling confident and rapt in you as a trainer, and willing to change behaviour

Keeping focus on the WIIFM factor
Improve the way learners transfer and apply the learning back into the workplace

Raise the credibility of training by finding better ways of linking it back into the workplace

Help participants to create truly compelling learning goals, that keeps them engaged and energised

Design your training with the end in mind. What experience do they need to assist them achieve this outcome?

Are your resources responding to the different learning styles (e.g. are they tactile, colourful etc?)

Use of Graphics – brighten up boring and dry content

Utilizing tactile resources that make your material is relevant to those who need to ‘touch’ it

Creative Chart Work – engages the visuals and makes you look professional

Are your training manuals aesthetically pleasing and easy to comprehend?

Whole Brain Learning Techniques – such as use of stories, metaphors, humour, graphics, colour, overviews, factual input – so that your material is presented in a way that people learn and succeed

Creating relevant ice-breakers – so that you are not wasting valuable time

How to teach your group to read faster and comprehend more
Pre-reading – participants will love you forever for this one when they learn the tricks to read and comprehend at a speed they never thought possible – straight away

How to help with memory training and build retention
Six different methods to build retention, so they get it, can recall it and use it – so your training sticks

Memory training skills

Keep it Real – make it highly focused on their training reality

State is everything – get participants into a highly motivated, resourceful state to learn. They will then use this state when applying the learning

Honour uniqueness and difference – tailoring training to the learning styles of the participants and to the unique culture of the organization

Make the training rich and Multisensory

Create v Consume – have participants create meaning of the information, not just consumption – then they will use it