Trainer's Creative 101 Series: Motivating Your Trainees (101 Great Tips to Get Your Trainees to Learn Themselves)

Author: Bob Pike, John Johnson, Liu Hua (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Inspiring learners, it is the biggest challenge for professional trainers. This book compiles the best creative training techniques, offering simple methods to wake up drowsy participants and unique tricks for role-playing. These creative ideas make your presentations engaging and easy to understand, benefiting your learners. Only well-delivered training is effective, so the way you train is as important as the content. The concise training principles collected in this book, tested in the classroom, can make your training content clearer and more interesting. This book helps you attract and maintain your audience's attention, make the training content clearer, and help learners deeply recognize the importance of learning. Inspire Your Learners includes the best creative ideas from the past six years of Creative Training Techniques Newsletter, ideas that make your presentations engaging and easy to understand, and benefit your learners the most. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1, Presentation Techniques, focuses on how to "season" your presentation, meaning improving the course content while enhancing its "listenability." These techniques include games, methods to highlight key points, and simple ways to make information more meaningful, and so on. The second part, Techniques for Motivating Learners, emphasizes the methods trainers use to encourage learners to take initiative in their own learning and to apply what they've learned to their work.