How to Make Your Training Much More Effective and Interactive
A lot of training today is based around PowerPoint, with a good deal of text on each slide. It has become, in essence, a PowerPoint presentation with an occasional detour of getting participants to create lists of ideas on a flipchart or a pin board. It is an exercise in transferring knowledge without any verification if anything was really learned. True learning must demonstrate some new or improved performance. But the standard presentation-lecture is usually very ineffective at transferring practical skills knowledge to learners. Millions of hours are spent worldwide on a method that doesn’t work with most learners. How should we then train? The lecture – presentation method of training scores quite low when measured in terms of knowledge retention. If this is so, then why do so many trainers use it? Partly because this is the way they learned themselves. We tend to use the methods that were used on us. Fora Train the Trainer Skills Workshop (online or on site),that teaches y
