Practical Training Habitz Episode
Here is my interview on the Habitz podcast talking about my top habits for making training more practical.
Train the Trainer – PRACTICAL Training Design Online Course
Buy my online course on Udemy by clicking here. Who is this for? If you need to design training then this course if for you. Beginners will find a comprehensive set of tools and templates and instructions to follow through every step of the training design process. This will help [...]
Shaping Paths Book
Most trainers know a great deal about how to deliver an engaging classroom experience, but what counts the most is behaviour change. If learners don’t use what they learnt back in their workplace, the training was a waste of time. Shaping Paths is a straightforward training design methodology [...]
Use Psychometrics for Inspiration Only
It’s not unusual for a leadership or soft skills training to include some kind of psychometric or profiling tool. Things like MBTI, DISC, Belbin etc. And these tools tend to be very well received with lots of people enjoying learning them and finding them quite useful. Some tools even claim [...]
Engagement is Not Enough
I think we can all agree that boring training is bad training. When you can’t focus you can’t learn. So naturally it seems logical to assume that fun training is good training. But this is not necessarily the case. Video games are pretty fun. Does that mean they’re good learning [...]
Simple Beats Unnecessarily Complex Verbal Arrangements
What’s the purpose of communication? Is it: To use fashionable words and sound coolTo use big words and sound smartTo exchange ideas and information If you answered A or B, then I must inform you that a lot of people find you really annoying! The purpose of communication is to [...]
The Rules of Engagement – Part 2
We’ve all been to boring meetings, workshops and trainings. Sitting there, staring into space, twiddling our thumbs and drifting off into a dream world. I could impress you with statistics about how much time is wasted in such meetings, workshops and trainings, but I don’t think I need to. Reflect [...]
The Rules of Engagement – Part 1
We’ve all been to boring meetings, workshops and trainings. Sitting there, staring into space, twiddling our thumbs and drifting off into a dream world. I could impress you with statistics about how much time is wasted in such meetings, workshops and trainings, but I don’t think I need to. Reflect [...]
Practice Makes Explanations Perfect
“How can we deliver as well as you? Everything you say is so clear and so persuasive. You have so many stories to tell. How can we deliver like you?” We’d just finished a 3-day training session that I had designed for them to take away and deliver internally. It [...]
Start with the End
One of my many obsessions in the field of training is how to master an explanation. The ability to explain a concept clearly, and in a short amount of time, is extremely useful for training. Especially when people can start using what I’ve explained straight away. But getting a perfect [...]