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What Every Manager Should Know About How to Conduct Successful Training Activities
by Etienne A Gibbs, MSW
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Whether you are training preschoolers in the classroom or executives in the board room, here are 15 premises you might want to keep in mind the next time you are planning to conduct or facilitate training activities.
2. Everybody learns at his own pace. First identify their pace, then learn to adjust your pace to theirs.
3. The trainee learns only when he is ready and is motivated. Set the amosphere by enhancing the motivational climate of the workplace and the training room.
4. Training must, therefore, get the trainee ready and motivated by satisfying his needs.
5. Training, to be successful, must begin at the trainee's level of comprehension. I say, "Go before you go". Conduct pre-session questionnaires, surveys, and/or interviews, depending on the circumstances before you train. Immediately upon completion of the training, follow-up with post-session questionnaires, surveys, and/or interviews.
6. During the training begin with the simple information and progress to the complex.
7. Use mutually familiar frames of reference. Jargon may be appropriate and acceptable, but make sure that everyone from various departments or work areas have the same understanding of the terms.
8. Make the training meaningful by systematically organizing it. Make it as interactive and as much fun as is possible.
9. Provide relevant and timely supporting materials in adequate quantities. If you have the means, personalize the materials with the employee's name and job title in addition to the relevant company or organization logo and vital data.
10. Watch for and avoid trainee boredom by using variety in your activities, materials, and speaking manner. This is where trainee-interactive training pays off big. Interact with the trainees by asking questions and by having them interact with each other in group exercises.
11. Provide trainees with feedback and reinforcement about their participation. Here the interactive apporach again. Encourage 100 percent voluntary participation.
12. Provide ample time for repetition and practice. Interactive trainers walk around the training room monitoring and interacting directly with trainees at random.
13. Give trainees the opportunity to adapt the training to new and different situations. Give them hypothetical situations in classroom and/or homework assignments as to how they would solve the situations.
14. Reassure the trainee and use his experiences. Realize that everyone has experiences, but not everyone, for whatever reason, might feel comfortable to share their experience in public. Acknowledge and respect their right to privacy. If someone does share confidential, acknowldge and respect it. Encourage the class to scknowledge and respect it, too.
15. Make the training practical by developing an agenda that is practical to the circumstances, budget, employee diversity of the workplace, the organization, or the business.
Follow these premises and you will find that your activities will become increasingly successful. And the trainees will beg you to conduct more and more training.
Remember: When you maximize your potential and help others to maximize theirs, everyone wins. When you don't, we all lose.
Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW, Management Consultant and Trainer, conducts lectures, seminars, webinars, and writes articles on his theme: "... helping you maximize your potential." For more information visit www.MaximizingYourPotential.blogspot.com, or email him at execandgroup-consulting@yahoo.com.
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© Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW
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