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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 facilitate […]

Forecasting Misunderstood

Anyone who has ever been involved in working with the financials of a company, in any capacity, has had to deal with forecasting. Whether establishing the AOP or identifying manpower requirements, there’s a need to project (meaning “predict”) future needs, associated costs, and their impact on revenues since Revenue – Cost = Profit.

Much like […]

Best Practices for Leading Others in a Virtual World

There are many challenges for leaders today. Trying to manage individuals who are located all over the world or who just work from their home office and rarely show up in the office is certainly not easy and takes great skill. As a leader you must have trust and confidence that those who report to […]

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 will […]

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 are […]