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 heard or read? Again, which pieces stand out in your mind
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 heard or read? Again, which pieces stand out in your mind: how it began, the middle action, or how it ended? Now think about a formal learning experience you participated in— a class, workshop, conference, presentation, or training. What parts of that experience stand out in your mind?
Most people remember the beginning and ending of an experience more easily than they remember all the events that took place in the middle. In addition, if the beginning and ending events are unusual or out - of - the - ordinary, people remember them longer than routine beginnings and endings.
There’s no need to quote you the ton of research that supports this, but if you have been a trainer long enough, you would know that learners will remember how the training begins and ends more easily than all the pieces in the middle, especially if the beginning and ending are not the traditional ones that most trainers use.
Whenever you add interactive and memorable opening or closing activities — ones that create interesting and relevant connections — the opening or closing becomes an important part of the entire learning process.
To help you start off your next training with a bang, why not check out some of the free training activities, exercises, ice breakers and energizers, on our partner site www.TrainingCourseMaterial.com you may be able to use one or two and tweak them to match your topic or serve specific training objectives you have. Just click here and check them out.
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About your ending, one of the best tried and tested ways to make a memorable BIG bang of the close of your training program is to turn it into a competition between teams. Add a review competitive game by putting together a few questions around the key points in your training material and split your class into teams. Ask each team to pick a team name, announce that the winning team will get a prize (like a box of chocolates), and ask the teams in turn and give points for each correct answer. Watch excitement rise as teams compete to answer the questions to win the prize. This is a great way to add loads of fun and make your ending memorable, it’s not only fun but it’s also a great way to improve the retention of the topics you just covered.
We believe so much in this review game technique of ending any training on a high note that all our full course packages now come with an additional Review game show designed with Power Point to run the whole review exercise in Power Point in a Jeopardy style fun competitive game. The best thing about the Power Point review game is that It’s fully customizable, you can just change the questions/answers and create different version of the game for each training topic you teach.
Want to give it a try? Click here to download a trial version of one of our Power Point review game shows.
We hope you find this helpful and as always, if you have any questions or if we can assist you with anything, we are always here to help.
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