Debriefing games and activities properly

Debriefing a game or activity is the point where the less skillful trainer may try to “save time” in the training day by cutting it short and moving on to the next item. Don’t do it. Don’t be that trainer.

World’s quickest training needs analysis

Many training practitioners wear several hats, and are often analyzers, designers, trainers, and evaluators all in one. The first key principle, and cornerstone, of the North Carolina Certified Training Specialist course is: “Learner First, Situation Second, Content Third.”

Action verbs for writing training objectives

(Based on the 7 levels of Bloom's taxonomy)

This is an extremely helpful list of suggested action verbs to use when writing training objectives describing learning in terms of level of sophistication according to Benjamin Bloom’s taxonomy of objectives.

Tips for getting management commitment to training

Getting management commitment to training, to ensure employees are allowed and encouraged to attend, and to support the transfer of training back to the work site can be quite a challenge. Even when the training is indicated by performance problems,

Importance of a proper introduction

Sometimes you must go slow to go fast

The importance of the opening of any training session, retreat or workshop cannot be stressed more. It simply sets the tone for whatever comes after. Just like beginning a conversation,

8 Sticky Situations in the classroom and how to deal with them

It’s certainly not uncommon as a trainer to find yourself sometimes in sticky, disagreeable and intimidating situations in a training class. Some of these situations may be because of something you said or did as a trainer but often times it can be traced back to the participants themselves.