I’m in a session on how to do effective trainings now. They started by showing how NOT to do it, which was pretty funny.
New word for the day: “androgogy” = adult learning.
- The four stages of learning:
creating the environment. making people comfortable physically, mentally, and emotionally.
sharing new information. get people involed. don’t get in a rut and sound canned: find out about the trainees so you can tailor examples to them.
make people active, not passive.
can be just reflecting.
You might cycle though the 4 for each chunk of info, or work through it all day.
The basics: “tell, show, do”
- Multiple intelligences: different ways we think. (From Howard Gardner.) Everyone has all of these in varying degrees:
verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, bodily kinesthetic, musical-rhythmic (patterns), interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic (intuitive)
tip: “101 ways to make a presentation active”
- trainer’s roles
– tour guide (content) [I do this one a lot]
skills: knowledge, facilitation, presentation (humor)
– facilitator (process)
skills: questioning, interpersonal, emotional presence, physical presence
– manager (environment)
skills: media, assessment & evaluation, classroom management
- questioning skills
– open-ended to encourage discussion: objective, reflection, interpretive, decision