This is a place for those wonderful, under-appreciated folks who design and deliver training workshops. Passionate people who strive to help others be better than they could possibly imagine and strive to help them get ‘it’.
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In the final instalment, Paul explains how the subject of the training is like The Olympic Games. This conclusion then influences the content sequencing and ensures that the learning is layered by starting with the common basics and layers complexity as new understanding is gained.
Paul reflects on a highly enjoyable afternoon with a client designing a 2 day training session around a very specific process. By challenging the common design practice of training the sequential process in a logical fashion, he demonstrates how to increase effectiveness by beginning with the learning outcomes.
In business, on the tv, in the news and in our personal lives we are bombarded with short cuts. And it’s getting just as bad in the training world – SMTs, OJT, JIL, SPL to name but a few.
We were told about this fantastic site that presents over 60 learning terms in the form of a periodic table. Just hover the term and a brief explanation is given.
There is no such thing as a difficult delegate
Last week, Paul was running a workshop with a new group with a new colleague who was familiar with the group. At the end of the session, the new colleague expressed surprise that a normally difficult learner seemed very happy and didn’t disrupt the group. Paul reflects on this experience and pinpoints the reasons why he believes the normally difficult delegate responded well during the session.
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