Make Your Training More Interactive and Raise Learning Effectiveness
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn”. Many of us know intuitively that this is true. We know that the key to acquiring real knowledge is only learned when it becomes one with us at a deeper level. Any yet, much training within companies is still lecture based, with numerous PowerPoint slides filled with text. The trainer often just reads that text to his bored audience – who after ten minutes, are no longer paying attention. In addition, there is rarely any chance to practice numerous times until competency is reached, not to mention any assessment with feedback of what was supposedly learned. In our Train the Trainer Courses in English (in Germany ) we see effective training, and by extension, effective learning, resting upon three pillars: 1. Topic relevancy; 2. A course structure that follows the learning structure of the mind; 3. Relevant activities along each step of the structure. How does this work in prac