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This tool also addresses some other issues that may surface- such as learner resistance- in delivering the training solution. This checklist is a perfect first...

Many online learners find the online environment new and disorienting. When they had a question in their face-to-face class, they simply raised their hand or...

The following are 22 simple but powerful concepts you don’t usually hear at a train the trainer course that can really help you be more...

From boomers to Gen Zers – know your virtual class generations Having generational diversity on your virtual team or your virtual class provides different perspectives...

Are you struggling to catch up with the shift from face to face to virtual training? are your training programs ready for the shift? Surely...

Getting to the root of an employee’s performance problem can be tricky. What the manager describes as a training problem may well be, for instance...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

No matter how well you plan and prepare your training program’s courseware, presentation or training material that you are delivering, more often than not, something...

Mobile Learning can be accessed from the palm of your hand. What could be better? M-learning, short for “mobile learning,” can be accessed on smartphones,...

A Quick Response (Quick Response) code is a digital image that can be scanned without the beam of light needed to scan barcodes at the...

The availability of new technologies and the adoption of social media within most organizations create a unique opportunity for trainers and facilitators to support learning...

If your learners actively use a messaging tool like Twitter, you might piggyback on that practice by opening an account that learners can follow regarding...

Getting your participants to buy into an activity or game you planned as part of your training materials is essential to add energy, interaction and...

Remember the last vacation you took? Which parts of the vacation do you remember best: the beginning, middle, or end? How about a story you...