Achieving Personal Effectiveness

High Impact Training - Innovative Learning Techniques NEW

Reviewing Your Current Techniques

  • Understanding the learning cycle
  • Getting inside the delegate’s head and understanding their expectations
  • The importance of creating a positive and supportive learning environment
  • Critiquing your current training style “Priming”
  • How forward thinking can increase retention by up to 34%
  • Practical methods of engaging learners before they even walk into the room

Preparation and Set up

  • Fail to prepare, prepare to fail – your essential checklist to ensure event success
  • Setting learner states – how to get your delegates in the frame of mind to learn
  • The learning environment – easy ways to get it right

Powerful Introductions

  • Your personal brand and body language – video feedback session
  • How to gain credibility from your audience
  • Selecting and using appropriate icebreakers to relax delegates, break down barriers and encourage participation

Learning and Your Brain

  • The learning cycle uncovered
  • How do your learners’ brains like to learn? – analyse and understand the different ways we process information
  • Developing “brain friendly” learning techniques and activities
  • Matching techniques and activities to learning styles

Accelerated Learning Techniques

  • An exploration into the theory and application of the latest accelerated learning techniques to excite and engage all your learners

Cartooning for Trainers

  • Can’t draw? It doesn’t matter. Learn how to produce quick, colourful and engaging flipcharts to stimulate and motivate.

Creative Learning Activities

  • An opportunity to practice stimulating learning activities including visualisation, jigsaw learning, storytelling, sociograms and debating.

Handling Difficult Situations

  • What causes difficult behaviour in a training environment?
  • The successful trainer’s handling guide for difficult participants – handy and practical tips to resolve issues
  • Avoiding fatigue and the “post lunch” dip
  • What to do when you don’t know the answers

Reviewing and Applying Learning

  • How the human memory works – short term and long-term
  • Twenty imaginative and practical ways to review and cement learning
  • Transferring learning to the workplace using the Kirkpatrick model
  • Measuring return on investment – an introduction to cost benefit analysis
  • Closing the session – how to make it memorable

Personal Development

  • Development of a specific action plan to adapt and use new skills and techniques