1. Begin with an ice-breaker, to help participants feel welcome, relaxed and ready to learn.
2. Encourage participants to exchange contact information, as connections made during training sessions can be surprisingly long-lasting and invaluable.
3. Incorporate humor into your presentations.
4. Resist the urge to fill up every ounce of white space on your slides.
5. Include quotes and on-topic cartoons into your training to helps make your message memorable.
6. Share relevant personal stories and anecdotes with your audience.
7. Make use of multimedia. A short audio or video clip can illustrate your point and take a much-needed break from lecturing. With today's technology, it's a snap to create your own. If you need links to great resources for doing this, email me and I will be happy to share what I use.
8. Encourage active participation and sharing of ideas in a supportive environment. You’ll get interesting and creative discussions going that will help learners remember key points.
9. Use breaks to bond with participants and get to know them. Don’t hole up and do all that extra work that’s piled on your desk. When students take a short 10-minute break, you should too! And, that’s the perfect time to get to know them.
10. Play team-building games that directly relate to the training message. Don’t let participants pick teams or you will inevitably have someone feeling left out or unwanted.
11. Keep all competition lighthearted and to a minimum.
12. Use short writing exercises/journals. When you have students write down educational goals,and think about/list all accomplishments, it will make participants feel reflective, confident and proud! Journals give participants something tangible to look back on.
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