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This month's article is entitled
What not to do When you are Training.
When we are
training we are alone, that is to say that we do not have someone looking over
us when we are training. Trainers by definition and the people that train are
self-regulating. We are able to work for long periods without supervision or
contact with a Manager or Supervisor and for someone new to the world of
Learning and Development this can be a daunting experience or one filled with
great freedom to do as we please when we please. Tempting though this is we
rarely do because when you are a Training Practitioner there comes a level of
responsibility for yourself and the people that you train or converse with in
carrying out your duties.
When
you are Training you need to be the business, that is to be an almost perfect
example of the model employee by adhering to and enforcing company policies like
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Diversity and Equality
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To Handout or not to Handout that is the Question
Providing
Training can be a costly exercise for any organisation, especially when times
are tough. The equipment and materials needed by a Trainer to deliver effective
training vary considerably from course to course and subject to subject.
The more technical or the more legal information that is required dictates how
many handouts are required. The question of handouts is a big one, hence the
title of this article. The costs involved in producing handouts can get out of
control. You have the cost of ink or toner to print them, the paper, the
electricity and then the time it takes to print them and put them together or in
order.
So what should a handout be?
A handout should be a useful document, a document or series of
documents that enhance what you are talking about and provide a visual (Read
Full Article)
Using and Understanding Learning Styles in a
Training Event is Vital
The Identification of Learning Styles has been around
since the mid-80s and are used in conjunction with Kolb’s Learning Cycle
that was developed in 1974. Since then many more theories have been developed
to identify learning styles and how people learn.
A number of people use the VAK
model taken from Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP that was developed
by Richard Bandler and others in the early 1970s. NLP is a tool used to
understand how people communication VAK being Visual, Auditory and kinaesthetic
meaning that if you are a visual person you communicate with pictures or prefer
information in diagrammatic form, Auditory people communicate with sounds and
would rather receive information audibly and Kinaesthetic people go mainly with
their feelings and would like a ‘hands on’ approach to receiving information. I
do not believe that this model directly helps us understand how people learn.
It does tell us how they like to communicate but not how they like to learn.
Kolb’s learning cycle is still in use
today as it is the basics of how learning is completed. Without completing the
cycle learning cannot happen. The learning Styles show how different people
start in different places on the cycle but, they still have to progress through
each of the styles to complete it.
The different learning styles are
based on Kolb's Learning cycle and were developed by Honey and Mumford. This is
where this model is different... (Read
Full Article)
Handling
Change in your Training Events.
Running a Training
Event brings change to how someone acts, reacts, thinks and goes about their
daily tasks. If Training did not do this, training would be a worthless
exercise. How you handle the change in your Training Event speaks volumes about
you as a trainer. Understanding the impact that change can have on individuals
is important to manage your training event successfully.
Training can be
defined as
‘A process to modify Knowledge, Skill,
Attitude or Ability through learning
to achieve improved performance in an activity or range of
activities
developing the skills of the individual to satisfy the current
and future
needs of an organisation’
and Learning as
‘A relatively permanent change in
behaviour that occurs as a result of
practice or experience’
Training is done to people and learning is what the people do.
How they handle change determines how ‘relatively permanent’ the change is. If
you choose to ignore that change does... (Read
Full Article)
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