Creating a train-the-trainer lesson plan in 7 minutes
In today’s blog post, I share a short video of exactly how I used Soapbox (an online tool) to create a train the trainer lesson plan in minutes.
Train-the-Trainer Lesson Plan: 4 Key Training Design Steps
Anchor, content, application, future use: 4 steps that can determine the effectiveness of your next training (if each step is delivered appropriately).
Giving & Receiving Feedback Lesson Plan
There are lots of articles out there about how to effectively give feedback. This is a lesson plan to help train people on the art of feedback.
Avoid Bad Slides with Good Process
Great presentation slides help a presentation look and feel more “slick”, but beauty is only skin deep. Presenters need a better way to organize their message.
Which Would You Prefer: Noise Pollution or Performance Support?
As I was waiting for my luggage to appear at the baggage claim in Delhi last week, a colleague pointed this sign out to me: In a place where honking drivers navigate their way through the crowded streets seemingly by echolocation and sensory overload insights, sounds, tastes, and smells are everywhere, the airport did indeed seem […]
STOP! Before you open up PowerPoint, read this…
PowerPoint can be a phenomenal tool to help with your next presentation. In addition to the conventional bullet pointed slides that are standard issue fare in most meetings and conferences, you can also do some cool things like create a Jeopardy board or play Family Feud through the magic of PowerPoint. Opening PowerPoint before you’ve mapped […]
Dissecting a Webinar: The Quest for Interaction in Distance Education
Web conferencing technology can be an amazing way to shrink the distance between a facilitator and the rest of the world. Of course, web conferencing technology is only as effective (and interesting) as the design of the webinar. There are many blogs and magazine articles and even books that offer tips and suggestions on how […]
Lesson Plan Template for Adult Learners
Templates are wonderful and the web is loaded with examples that you can download and begin using today. After staring at the latest “Free Lesson Plan Template” you may start to wonder, what am I supposed to do with this? While we cover some more advanced issues about designing versus delivering in Training Lesson Plan Templates: […]
There’s Always a First Time
Intended Audience for this Post: Beginning presenters, trainers or people who were recently asked by a boss (or colleague) to get up in front of people to present something important and need some help organizing their thoughts Getting in front of people and presenting is something that makes a lot of people nervous. In 2001, […]
