Category: session design
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Critical Thinking
Here is an excellent blog post on critical thinking. As a trainer you need to be an effective critical thinker but also be bale to build the process into your sessions. Read the post here at Edudemic.
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Instructional design
I have written a few posts about writing and instructional design as well as a couple videos (one is shown below). To be a great trainer you need great content. Sometimes that is easy but often it means a great deal of effort, research and creative time. Read this post about writing is acting. It…
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Trial and Error Training
This is one of the most straight forward common sense video’s I have seen but very applicable to trainers. I have been delivering a lot of project management training over the last few months and it dawned on me after watching this video that I had been telling potential project managers that they really need…
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Great Conclusions
The next Training Tips 56 video has been released. You can find it at all the usual locations or watch it below. This is the follow up to the Great Introductions video. I have placed that below in case you haven’t seen it. There is obviously a lot that goes on between the introduction and…
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Outcomes, goals and assessment
Here is an interesting new take on setting goals or objectives (see video below). As trainers we constantly set objectives or outcomes for people or do we? I am starting to wonder how often we really do set outcomes. We talk about it a lot but how often do we actually pay that much attention…
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Instructional design
I am running a instructional design session tomorrow with some Diploma participants which meant that I started looking around on the internet for any useful resources (a must for any session planner). I have always thought that instructional design was pretty straight forward but I have been doing it for a long time and I…
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Happy Brains
Listen to this short podcast on how happy brains perform better. Probably not surprising. I ask training groups all the time what makes a training session better than average and one of the most consistent responses is a humorous, fun session. It is also one of my measures of success. If the program was fun…
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Wow learning activities!
One of the most time consuming areas of good training design and session planning is coming up with appropriate learning activities that link to the knowledge, skill or behaviours being taught, are appropriate for the learner group and are fun, interesting and stimulating. Tough ask for anyone. Hours can be spent flicking through books, racking…
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Competency & Rugby
What does competency and rugby have to do with each other? To find out you will need to check out the latest Training Tips 56 video. So far we have looked at learning objectives and learning outcomes and now it is competencies turn. Next week we will have a look at how they all…
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Learning outcomes
One of the biggest problems that I find new trainers have is writing effective and useful learning outcomes. If you are operating in the accredited system with training packages then you have to use them and be skillful in creating them to meet client needs and matching training package requirements. They require practice and a…