While their terminologies and goals may be unique, there are undeniable similarities between teaching and corporate training. If you’re ready to improve your training skills, take a note of these core teaching tactics.
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In the learning space, we often talk about innovation, but rarely is it in relation to the classroom. And yet classroom training represents roughly 70 percent of training budgets.
Have you ever felt like the monotone economics teacher played by Ben Stein in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” while you were facilitating?
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” This quote from Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of United States, is in the initial slides of every course that I teach.
From an unexpected lack of audience participation to technology failures, the more sessions a trainer has led, the more likely it is that he or she has experienced a gambit of mishaps.
The human brain is wired to forget. Not all information is needed beyond the immediate moment or situation. It’s up to instructional designers and training facilitators to help learners maximize knowledge retention.
Everyone’s talking about workplace wellness these days, but too often, workplace wellness doesn’t extend to the food we see at meetings, coffee breaks and conferences.
Before deciding whether to plan, manage and execute a training entirely in house or to partner with an outsourcing training delivery provider at an offsite training venue, it’s important to consider a multitude of factors.
The majority of conversations on diversity and inclusion (D&I) revolve around hiring more diverse people and creating inclusive work cultures. Both of these intentions are worthy starting points for creating a more diverse and inclusive organization.
In order to help trainers personalize instruction, we must encourage them to develop coaching and storytelling skills that will make content relatable to learners.