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Long Read on Training and Learning

A Crash Course: How to Deliver Professional Training

You are a subject expert and you have decided to teach. Welcome to this crash course on training. You know your field well, but you are wondering what you should consider when it comes to training people. You could be engaging in a formal training course, or just informally training someone on the job. The principles are the same for both. Once you know how humans learn, you can deliver great training on anything. To run a great course, you need to get three things right...

Instructional Methods

When going through a training a course, you have a series of methods at your disposal that can help you transfer knowledge and skills at the right level.

An instructional method is defined by the process that you use to instructpeople on a particular topic. Each instructional method has its own use case with certain advantages and disadvantages.

In this guide, you will be introduced to a comprehensive list of such instructional methods that can help you choose the right method for your specific needs...

Train the Trainer Articles & Exercises

What Virtual Reality Can Do for Soft Skills Training

The new age of virtual reality (VR) is upon us. We are still at early stages of VR development, but the field has shown a strong promise. Of all the new technologies that we are about to fully experie...

Applications of Clock Buddies

Back in 2013 we released a software tool on our website called Clock Buddies. Clock Buddies refers to a traditional tool used to pair people up in a classroom setting. Each person was given a blank sh...

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 ac...

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 main a...

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 cours...

If Your Training is Not Working, You are Not Doing This One Thing

In a Customer Service Skills course: The trainer starts by explaining the principles of customer service. He gets excited and is carried away by explaining more. Delegates meanwhile are quietly lis...

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 think a...

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 al...

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 of e...

The Results of Our Training Questionnaire

A while back we sent you a questionnaire with a series of questions on how training courses are conducted. The aim was to develop an insight on how training courses are run across the world and to ult...

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 t...

How to Use Icebreakers

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 need...

Train the Trainer Exercise: Pause and Check Feelings

This is a simple activity that helps you understand how your delegates feel as well as making them reflect on their own state of mind.

5 Useful Methods to Increase Attention and Focus

Humans have evolved to focus their attention on what matters most. To navigate a complex environment, we have ended up with a kind of brain that vigorously filters out unnecessary information. This fi...

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 Train...

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 your ...

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 mistak...

Energiser: Wake Them Up

It is just after lunch and you are about to teach a new theory to your delegates. Ideally you should not cover this after lunch but you have had no choice. You notice that delegates are falling sleep....

Why Knowledge of Andragogy Can Improve Training

Andragogy is essentially the science of understanding lifelong adult learning. The theory was developed by Malcolm Knowles in 1960s and the term has since come to name the field of adult learning. ...

Memory Exercise: Recap on Lessons Covered So Far

This exercise helps to refresh delegates’ memory about what you just taught them. It encourages them to think about the training lessons covered so far and make a few statements about what they have...

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