Course objectives:

• Deliver engaging lecture


• Choose the right practice activities


• Use the 3R’s strategy to increase learner retention


• Use 14 Visual Organizers to visually present content


• Create dynamic openings that grab learners’ attention


• Use the inventory of questions to facilitate group dialogue


• Create opportunities for learners to self-assess application


• Apply a 4-step framework to confidently coach learner practice


• “Chunk” content delivery in lecture to work within the limits of working memory


• Identify specific strategies that will increase your skill in all four delivery roles


• Choose the right visual organizers and imaging activities to enhance retention


• Use interactive processing activities to increase energy and maximize learning


• Use the story framework to create stories that engage learners and increase retention


• Connect learners to the content being learned using 8 Opening Strategies that Always Work


• Recognize your natural training strengths in four critical training roles using the 4MAT Training Style Inventory®


• Use powerful closing techniques that gain learner commitment and “push” learning out into the real-world

Agenda Details:

• How to gain learner commitment


• The two processes that define “learning”


• Effective strategies for building learner implementation plans


• How to break up lecture with fun, interactive processing activities


• Strategies for following up with learners including social media


• Determining when the learning climate should be active or reflective


• The four steps you must lead the learner through to ensure learning transfer


• How to deliver powerful and energizing openings and create meaningful dialogue


• Understanding what is happening in the 4 steps of the 4MAT learning cycle


• How to choose the right hands-on activities that deliver on learning outcomes


• What the learner is doing in each step and what the trainer is doing in each step


• How to clearly set up practice activities and effectively debrief practice activities


• How to deal with difficult learners and build a sense of community amongst learners


• How to use the 4MAT coaching model to give feedback to learners on practice application


• Activities you can use to encourage learners to assess their own performance


• Powerful closing strategies that gain learner commitment and “push” learning out into the real world


• Recognizing your training style strengths using the 4MAT Training Style Inventory®


• How to shift fluidly between facilitator, presenter, coach and evaluator to create powerful training results


• How to use the 4MAT model to give clear activity directions and use questions to guide the learning focus

Included in your tuition:

• Participant workbook


• 4MAT® Training Style Inventory (TRSI®)