Month: June 2023

@TisFortraining 339: Monologue with Hostages

Sardek Love joined Paul Signorelli, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Tom Haymes, Diane Hackabay, and Maurice Coleman to discuss his recently-released report “2023 Top Challenges Trainers Are Facing at Work.” Sardek recently summarized the report (and included graphics from it) in one of his “Ask a Master” videos by focusing on the results of his own research with learners. If you want a peek at what we’ll be discussing, you can view that (10-minute) video and download a free copy of the report. 
    • Participant engagement
    • Management buy-in
    • Time constraints
    • Stakeholder buy-in

Most trainers have not been trained in instructional design, so the training is boring and participants do not engage. Trainers tend to be bad at engagement and rather good at telling. Trainers need to be good storytellers, which helps them to be better trainers.

“Engagement looks like magic, if you don’t know how.” – Sardek

In our discussion, Sardek gave a quick lesson in telling stories from his book, Presentation Essentials: The Tools You Need to Captivate Your Audience, Deliver Your Story, and Make Your Message Memorable (paid link).

Maurice noted – as he often does – that not everything management wants employees trained on is not a problem that can be solved by training. Some problems need changes within the organization, rather than training.
We covered several interesting topics, so this is definitely worth a listen. You can listen to this episode on TalkShoe and in other places where you listen to podcasts.
BTW we had talked about Sardek’s book before in episode 323.

@TisForTraining 338: Classes shouldn’t be trivia contests

Maurice Coleman, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Paul Signorelli, and Tom Haymes talked about the topic of “tangible work products and how we can use them in our training. Tom has recently published a post abut this and we used that as our starting point. Paul noted that he wrote “Connected Learning, Project-Based Learning, and Learners as Authors” in 2013, which relates to this topic.

We talked both about academic and non-academic environments, and mentioned specific tools like Miro. Tom mentioned the book, “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.”

This episode is available on Talkshoe and in many places where you listen to podcasts.

 

 

@TisForTraining 337: The Tingler or One Size Doesn’t Fit All But All Are Welcome

On the call were Andrea Snyder, Maurice Coleman, Jill Hurst-Wahl, and Tom Haymes. Our topic tonight was how we make our trainings more welcoming, as well as how we build community in our training (or through our trainings). This was a conversation about facilitation and we gave many  useful examples.

Our final thought was: One size does not fit all, but all are welcome.

You can listen to the episode on TalkShoe and in many other places where podcasts are served.

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