When you’ve managed to make your training activity attention-grabbing, interactive, and engaging, is your job done? Not quite. As training designers and facilitators, we’re also responsible for making sure our learners can connect their ah-ha moments to the real world, and that’s where the art of the debrief comes in. Even if you’re running short on time, making sure that your learners have a chance to think a little more deeply about what they learned and experienced will go a long way to making sure they can and will apply their key lessons learned.

When our learners join us for a virtual or in-person training session we can lead activities and observe whether learners are making connections and learning new skills. When it comes to elearning, many designers struggle to design interactions that help learners demonstrate that they are “getting it”?

Have you ever wished that there was an easy button to help your subject matter experts (SMEs) add more engagement to their training sessions. Brian Washburn walks you through practical steps for creating a simple, effective train-the-trainer program for anyone serving as a “part-time trainer” across your organization.