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Kick off the Workshop Right: A Training Best Practice

Get them excited about learning immediately

Too often facilitators get into the classroom and immediately start off the workshop session by having participants introduce themselves and then getting started on the curriculum. Not necessarily the worst approach you can take. But how about trying this the next time you walk into the classroom to [...]

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Best Practices in Facilitating Discussions during Workshops

One activity in workshops that takes significant facilitation skills are discussions. I have found that discussions are a great way to get the workshop participants to apply their past experiences, work through case studies and solve problems; not to mention build their skills in working in a team environment. However, unless well facilitated, discussions [...]

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Using Learning Styles Effectively in Developing Workshops

Learning styles include perceptual learning differences, learning time differences, and information process differences. For this article, we are going to focus on perceptual learning differences which is most common.

Perceptual learning differences include:

Visual learners: learn by reading and viewing, visually oriented Auditory learners: learn by hearing and speaking, need to clarify what they [...]

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Use a Community of Practice to Enhance the Learning from Training Programs

It’s a great way to keep the learning going and engage individuals in their own development

Creating a Community of Practice enables you to enhance the learning that participants receive from training programs. Let’s look at an example of a client who utilized a Community of Practice (CoP) to enhance the learning from a [...]

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Effective Questioning Techniques for Trainers

Key importance for all trainers is how to ask the right questions to ensure that participants in a training program understand the concepts presented. There are a variety of techniques to use and certainly some combination of all should be used in every training program you teach.

Here are some to consider:

Recall: I [...]