Creative Techniques
Collated descriptions of various creative thinking techniques. Useful for courses on creativity and innovation, but also a good way to inject creative thinking into ANY training session. DOWNLOAD NOW
How To Create Useful Delegate Materials
If your training workshop has a structure and planned content, it’s a good idea to create supporting delegate materials that people can take away. Many people encourage delegates to make their own notes, and of course this is good practice, BUT if these hand-written notes are all delegates have, there’s a danger that they will…
How To Design Bite-Size Training
It may be tempting to think that designing bite-size training (sessions lasting 2 hours or less) is easier than designing a full day workshop, but it isn’t. Many sessions that are described as bite-size training are simply a meeting: a presentation with a discussion or short group exercise thrown in and questions at the end….
How To Design Training That Accelerates Learning
Accelerated Learning is the term used for ‘brain-friendly’ way of training people quickly AND so that learning sticks. It is a principle that brings together key points from neuroscience and learning theory that encourages working WITH the brain and our natural tendencies, rather than against them. Accelerated Learning unlocks much of our potential for learning…
How To Plan Training
There’s a lot more to creating a great training programme or learning event than selecting content and presenting it well. Planning the event (before detailed design commences) takes time and is vital to gain clarity in your own mind, and to get buy-in/sign-off from your key stakeholders. Planning a learning event means keeping your focus…