Category: Tips
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Learning Objectives
This weeks training tips 56 video looks at what a learning objective is and how to write one. If you missed the introduction to this series on objectives, outcomes and competencies click here. The latest video can be viewed here or below.
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Body Language
I’ve written a few posts about body language and its importance to trainers. One of the key aspects of body language though is not over interpreting. Make sure you have read informed, knowledgeable articles and that you have gathered suitable quality evidence before you start to read too much into what you see a person…
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Twitter power tips
I did a post last week on the usefulness of twitter for educators. If you haven’t at least had a play with it try it out for 30 minutes and search for topics that interest you and see what it brings up. If you are really starting to get into it and want to know…
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Project managing training
Every aspect of training is a project. Sometimes simple, sometimes complex. Even just delivering a session is a project in itself. I was reminded of this recently as I was delivering a project management program and the concepts that I was teaching were part of the process that I was using to put the actual…
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Twitter – eTool of the week
There has been an incredible amount written about twitter and I am sure that you have an opinion about it even if you have never used it before. If you have never tried it, please give it a go today for just 30 minutes. The reason for this exercise is that most people do not…
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Can trainers be good public speakers?
I often get asked for advice on how to make a good speech from trainers. This used to surprise me as I used to think that if you can stand in front of a group of people and train them then of course you could make a good speech. There are many aspects of training…
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E – Tool of the week: PowerPoint add-in
How many times have you been running a training session using PowerPoint and you have had to flick to your web browser to show something on the web, generally using alt-tab, and then you get lost and can’t find you way back to your slide or you accidentally close the slideshow which means you have…
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PowerPoint Power Tips
PowerPoint is a great resource for most trainers. But for others it can definitely be their downfall. The real trick is knowing when not to use it. I wrote a link piece to PowerPoint a while back if you want to check it out. It was time to condense this information down though into 56…
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Having a bad training day?
We all have them. A training day that just doesn’t work. It could be the equipment. It could be a persistent clown in the group. It could be a really resistant group of trainees who just don’t want to be there. Whatever it was it doesn’t really matter because there are many more good…
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E-Tool of the week
I still find it surprising when I find out that professional trainers and assessors do not know about slideshare. This is one of those great resource websites that is free and has a number of uses. First, I would suggest that you just go there and have a look around. Basically the site is a…