When to Run a Course and How to Time It

When to Run a Course and How to Time It

You are a subject expert. You are in the process of designing a face-to-face interactive course and wonder how to offer it to the market. A primary question you may ask yourself is how to decide th...

Converged Words

Converged Words

This is a fun exercise focusing on word play where the delegates need to converge on a common word based on previously suggested words. When convergence happens, it is immensely enjoyable. The pair...

How to Avoid Delivering Unsatisfying Training Courses

How to Avoid Delivering Unsatisfying Training Courses

Have you ever attended a miserable and boring training course? Have you heard your colleague’s tale of boring training course? People love exceptionally good training courses and talk about them a ...

You Must Know the 10 Wrong Beliefs of Training by Heart

You Must Know the 10 Wrong Beliefs of Training by Heart

In today's specialised world, many people are working hard to become an expert in something. Spending extensive time on any topic will turn a person into an expert in that subject just by sheer acc...

Think Music, Chess and Sports: Train Yourself to Train Others Better

Think Music, Chess and Sports: Train Yourself to Train Others Better

Being a good trainer requires a set of skills. Like any other skill, you need to practice in order to get better at this skill. This is quite different from being good at the topic you are teaching...

How to Practice Paying Attention to Detail

How to Practice Paying Attention to Detail

One of the biggest and perhaps saddest trends in our era is that attention spans are shrinking. It is primarily fuelled by the explosion of online content, rise of social media and the ever-increas...

The Seven Techniques of Learning to Learn

The Seven Techniques of Learning to Learn

Learning should not be as hard as you think. There is a method to the art and just like any skill, learning to learn needs practice and mastery. It is much like speed reading. If you know how to re...

Training Technique: Combined Ranking

Training Technique: Combined Ranking

When delivering training courses, sometimes you need to get the delegates go through an exercise that involves sorting cards. Card sorting is a training activity where you get the delegates to thin...

Learning Exercise: Rewind the Course

Learning Exercise: Rewind the Course

This is an effective exercise to help delegates review the topics covered in the course systematically at the end of a course. It is designed to be participatory rather than competitive and the mai...

Learning Exercise: Anonymous Review

Learning Exercise: Anonymous Review

This exercise takes advantage of social proof to illustrate the importance of topics learned during the course. It is ideal to run this exercise at the end of a course to review what has been cover...

Train the Trainer Exercise: Review Learning

Train the Trainer Exercise: Review Learning

Use this exercise to help the delegates review what they have learned in the course. The aim is to make the review process entertaining and memorable. It is also designed to be competitive so that ...

Learning Exercise: Recall Training

Learning Exercise: Recall Training

This is a handy end-of-the-course exercise that helps reinforce learning by reminding the delegates of what they have learned during the course. A summary is produced during this exercise which can...

Answer Correctly or Get Eliminated

Answer Correctly or Get Eliminated

At the end of each training session, it is ideal to test delegate’s knowledge about the topics covered during the session. You can make the process more entertaining by making the test feel like a ...

Why People Forget What They Learn in a Training Course and How to Address It

Why People Forget What They Learn in a Training Course and How to Address It

Imagine attending a training course which at the time you thought was fine and covered a good range of content that you didn’t know about. Sometime later, your colleague asks you about the course a...

Six Proven Techniques to Boost Your Mental Powers

Six Proven Techniques to Boost Your Mental Powers

As a successful trainer, you must be able to perform at your best every time you provide a training course. Your aim is not only to teach a given subject to delegates, but to also entertain them an...

Recap Exercise: Visualise What You Learned Today

Recap Exercise: Visualise What You Learned Today

Research has long shown that visualisation can lead to better recall and learning. As a trainer, you can exploit visualisation to your advantage. One area where visualisation is useful is when reca...

How to Increase Commitment After Delivering a Training Course

How to Increase Commitment After Delivering a Training Course

During a training course several topics are often covered. Each of these topics leads to a number of actions that will help improve delegates’ behaviour or skills in the future. However, many of th...

What You Must Absolutely Know About Reinforcement Learning

What You Must Absolutely Know About Reinforcement Learning

We all know from experience that there seems to be a connection between reward and learning. We see it clearly in children; “Honey, you can watch one more hour of TV tonight if you clean your room....