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Exercises, Train the Trainer, Presentation Skills, Attention and Focus
:::: 73 Ratings :::: Monday, December 26, 2011
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To reduce learner passivity and increase interaction and reflection, a technique known as the “Three Minutes Pause” is very useful. The idea is that after covering a topic or a complex concept, you pause and let the participants ponder over what has been discussed in a systematic way. This allows participants to clarify areas they may not have understood well and prepares them for the next part. The interaction and expression of ideas also helps memorisation of the content.
This technique is particularly useful for lectures since they are usually very passive and encourage non-participation. The Three Minutes Pause allows you to bring interactivity into a lecture without much time cost while significantly helping the audience to understand and memorise the content. It also allows you to monitor participants and receive feedback about areas that you may need to expand on more.
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Training Articles, Train the Trainer, Presentation Skills, Personal Impact, Learning
:::: 177 Ratings :::: Monday, November 21, 2011
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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 mistakes that you are not aware off, carrying them out habitually. Some trainers realise such mistakes after years of suboptimum training while others don’t understand what is preventing their training courses to be successful.
The first step in combating mistakes is to know what they are. Your awareness of them combined with taking alternative actions will help you avoid damage. The following are 5 mistakes every trainer needs to avoid when providing a training course.
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Training Articles, Train the Trainer, Presentation Skills, Personal Impact
:::: 143 Ratings :::: Monday, October 17, 2011
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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.
Successful trainers know that to deliver a useful memorable course, they must make it engaging. They make sure that they are remembered as part of the process of teaching and helping others to stick to new skills and habits long after the course is delivered.
Over the years we have identified a critical set of techniques that help trainers become more interesting. These techniques are as follows.
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Training Articles, Train the Trainer, Presentation Skills, Personal Impact, Learning
:::: 467 Ratings :::: Monday, September 26, 2011
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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 this is how you want to teach?
How about your past teachers? What did your favourite teacher do that made you interested in a particular topic? In fact some teachers are so effective in their teaching that they come to influence us for the rest of our lives, perhaps even going as far as following a career in the topic they taught.
It turns out that effective trainers have certain good habits that lead to their success. If you want to become a great trainer, all you need to do is to adopt these 8 habits. Let’s see what these habits are:
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Exercises, Presentation Skills, Personal Impact, Sales Skills, Marketing
:::: 308 Ratings :::: Monday, June 27, 2011
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In this exercise, delegates practice delivering a quick sales pitch. The structure of the pitch is based on the FAB methodology; Features, Advantages and Benefits. Most people miss the advantage and instead focus too much on features. This exercise helps them to understand the significance of benefits and advantages over features.
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Exercises, Presentation Skills, Marketing, Resource Management
:::: 58 Ratings :::: Monday, February 14, 2011
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This is a creativity exercise in a form of a template that you can customise in a variety ways. The format is that the group comes into possession of a large number of a certain used old product. The groups need to think of creative ways to sell them. Naturally, teams that can work together and use systematic creative methods have a higher chance to come up with novel ideas.
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Exercises, Body Language, Presentation Skills, Personal Impact
:::: 74 Ratings :::: Monday, November 22, 2010
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Good presentation skills and public speaking require multitude of skills; creativity, storytelling, creative slide design, engaging attitude, emotional content, effective non-verbal gestures and so on. Apart from good slide design, it is also important for presenters to focus on delivery skills to properly showcase what they show in the slides.
The modern practice of delivering presentations strongly encourages the use of images in slides. Hence, a presenter must be capable of showing an image and then deliver a key related message while the image is shown while using hand gestures, meaningful body posture, expressive arm placement and other non-verbal signals.
This exercise helps delegates to focus on this specific area and practice the skill.
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Training Articles, Train the Trainer, Communication Skills, Presentation Skills, Learning
:::: 178 Ratings :::: Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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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, information is exchanged in both ways. These methods are also known as content-centred or learner-centred activity. In practice, lectures are generally one-way and training courses are two-way.
The methods in each style are quite different but they both have their uses. Lectures are suitable for a large audience, where interaction is not possible or time consuming. Even though lectures are very useful as a teaching method, delivering a training course in the form of a lecture is not recommended as the training session could become boring and unproductive. This article explores the one-way instructional method and suggests solutions to make the experience more interactive or memorable without losing the benefits of a lecturing activity.
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Exercises, Train the Trainer, Presentation Skills, Memory, Learning
:::: 81 Ratings :::: Friday, May 1, 2009
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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 of exercises encourage participation in learning environments where you are forced to use a one-way instructional method such as lecturing.
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Public Speaking, Exercises, Train the Trainer, Presentation Skills
:::: 77 Ratings :::: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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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 content and allows the audience to do something about what they have just learned. This helps them to go over the content quickly and also participate before the speaker moves on to more complex topics. This exercise is an example of such an interactive pause delivered at the end of a lecture or a talk.
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