Trainer Skills: Why Knowing Your Content Isn’t Enough (And What to Do About It)

Knowing your content isn’t enough to train well. Take the Trainer Skills Profile assessment and learn the SWAP framework to deliver instructor-led training sessions that stick.

Facilitator Strategies for Engaging Challenging Training Participants

Instructor-led training success depends on how you handle the human dynamics, not just your content. Brian Washburn breaks down the four most common “personas”—from the dominating extrovert to the quiet observer—and shares practical, crowdsourced tactics to keep every session on track.

Classroom Training Tips from a Master Facilitator

A selection of instructor-led training tips to help you address the common challenges you face when training adult learners.

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Why Dialogue Education Works for Adult Learners

A participant asked a question that derailed my training plan. I was annoyed at first. Then another participant shared context that made it all make

Replace Boring Lecture with the 17×17 Lightning Talk

The 17×17 Lightning Talk is an engaging alternative to traditional lectures that keeps learners focused, encourages concise storytelling, and adds energy to your instructor-led training sessions.

The Secret to Training That Works? Partner with Your Training SMEs

We’ve all been there…you design what you think is a brilliant training program, only to have it fall flat in the classroom. Often, the missing

Workplace training activity called the Lockbox Activity

Cheers, High-Fives & ‘Aha!’ Moments: Why I Swear By the Lockbox Activity

Some training activities never fail to engage a group, no matter the context, culture, or organizational hierarchy. One of my absolute favorites is the Lockbox

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Beyond the Basics: A Better Action Plan Template for Lasting Training Impact

You probably know that one of the best ways to get your trainees thinking about how they’ll bring what they’ve learned from the training back

Cooking Up Training: Activities for Early Childhood Training

We love cooking up new resources for the L&D field. We get excited when people download them. But we don’t often know how they’re being

Accessibility and Inclusion in Instructor-Led Training (ILT)

Is your ILT designed with accessibility and inclusion in mind? Gwen Navarrete Klapperich wants to make sure you consider accessibility and inclusion in your ILT design, and offers some suggestions on how to do just that.