Comprehension Exercise: Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal teaching is a technique used by trainers and teachers to facilitate understanding a piece of text. It is designed to promote comprehension by looking at a text from several different ang...
Do You Make These 5 Training Mistakes When Delivering a Course
Some mistakes are small and irrelevant while some have bigger but yet manageable consequences. There are however some mistakes that can bring your entire training career down. These are often mista...
10 Tips for Becoming an Interesting Trainer
No one can argue that being an interesting trainer is a quality that will almost always guarantee successful training sessions. No one wants to spend a training day listening to a boring trainer. S...
8 Habits of Highly Effective Trainers
What is the secret to becoming a successful trainer? What makes a trainer stand out from the competition? Have you ever attended a course that you were so impressed by the trainer that you thought ...
Clock Buddies: Find Your Number 7 Partner
Suppose you want to pair up your delegates. The usual way is that you just give a simple instruction such as “partner with the person on your left”. What if in another exercise you want to pair the...
Effective Teaching Methods: One-Way Teaching
Instructional methods can be divided into one-way and two-way methods. In the one-way method, the direction of the information is from the instructor to the audience. In the two-way method, informa...
Presentation Skills: Systematic Note Taking
This is another interactive pause exercise used during a lecture or talk to help the participants to quickly go over the content they have just been thought and record the key points. These kinds o...
Presentation Skills: Sharing Content
This activity is useful as an add-on to lectures, talks or presentations to make them more interactive and memorable. An interactive pause used during or after a lecture stops the current flow of c...
An opening exercise such as an icebreaker is useful to start up a training session. As the name suggests, icebreakers are designed to “warm up” the session. It is important to note that delegates n...
How Memory Can Increase Your Training Effectiveness
Just about everybody is involved in either teaching or learning or both. If you are a trainer, your job is highly biased towards the teaching side which means you need to understand how to train yo...
5 Steps to Improve Your Training
Modern methodologies on training such as the TAP program, Accelerated Learning, or other top-of-the-range accredited train-the-trainer programs are based on the fundamental theory of Cognitive Trai...
It is well known that presenting is different from training. A good trainer focuses on delegates and his intention is to transfer a set of skills to them. In contrast a presenter is interested to r...
How to Write a Speech to Get Maximum Results
If there is one thing less appealing than giving a public talk is giving a bad one. If you haven’t prepared your speech don’t have high expectations. Experience shows that giving a speech without p...
