To design or redesign an existing or new workshop so that 80% of the workshop time is ‘learners doing’ and without the use of PowerPoint.

The design must adhere to the findings of some of the latest research from the world of cognitive science on how the brain learns and incorporate core principles that help make learning sticks.

Some of the ideas we will explore to help you complete your challenge

• Priming for success - How to increase retention by up to 34%
  What is priming and pre-exposure? Research shows that retention can be increased by up to 34%, so what are the best practical ways of doing it to reduced training time and costs?
• Openings That Ignite A Room (15 ways to sizzle)
  We have 30-60 seconds to create the magic and form neural connections for effective learning - so how do we do it. How do we get buy-in, build high calibre credibility and create the optimum brain friendly learning environment?
• How To Write Behavioural Based Objectives
  From a design perspective, how do we write objectives that can be observed during the training and measured after the training? As a designer/trainer we need these concrete signposts but our learners could ‘care less’, so how do we convert them into WIIFM’s or Challenges to grab out learners attention and set real world context.
• The Power of the Learning Cycle
  How to build learners centred modules that ensure learners are totally involved for over 80% of each learning module ie each piece of content.
• Techniques for Grabbing Learners Attention
  The idea of being able to hold learners attention for any length of time is just not possible. We can forget holding their attention for 1-day, half a day, 1 hour or even 15 minutes. But what we can do is grab their attention and focus it upon key points, then we have to let go. Here learners will take away practical techniques for grabbing and focusing learners attention.
• Techniques That Bring Dry Material Alive
  I don’t’ believe there is such a thing as dry material, there are some dry presenters, but no dry material. So what are some of the practical ideas and techniques you can use when designing to bring what could be seen as the driest of material to life?
• Concept Before Keyboard
  How to go from show and tell with ‘systems’ training to teaching the concept and letting the system teach itself.
• Optimal States for learning
  To be a good training facilitator you need to be a master at managing learner states – so what’s required from the design side?
• Closing with Flair (12 functions of an effective close).
  How to design a well-orchestrated close that has a feeling of Movement (so learners know how far they have come), Meaning (to apply the learning to their own work), Value (so that learners know how important the learning will be) etc. However learners leave their workshop is probably how they’ll remember it.

Just because you said it, doesn't mean they learned it

Your Workshop Questionnaire

Please complete and submit your workshop questionnaire.  This will help me ensure you get exactly what you are hoping for from our time together.  Thank you.

How To Get Your Content Into The Long Term Memory Of your Learners

We don’t need to be neuro or cognitive scientists, but if we don’t know the practical things we should be adding to our training to ensure our content gets into the long-term memory of our learners, then we are ‘shooting in the dark’ when we design and facilitate training.

So what will stop our content making it to our learners long-term memory and what can we do about it?

Get your content passed the 3 gatekeepers of your learners brain on the way to Long Term Memory.

First. Click here to download a placemat to complete as you try to get content to Long Term Memory. I’d like you to email me the completed placemat so you may want to complete it within PowerPoint.

Click here to start your challenge

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Fellow learners who will be part of your workshop

• Dana Alahdal
• Abdul Rahman
• Shahzad Aslam
• Vasim Ansari
• Manzoor Quadri
• Giovanni Sabio
• Ravindra Ayyar
• Sivagnanam Tamilvanan
• Junaid Nadeem
• Mohammed Alhaseef
• Kalandhar Halith

Meet David - Your Facilitator

Hi.  I started training over 40 years ago, honing my skills in the IT field. I was always looking for different ways of facilitating beyond just, 'Press this key, press that key', and over time developed totally learner centred IT training workshops. Nearly 25 years ago now, I met Christophe who was training in the hospitality industry - developing the same types of ideas as myself. So we decided to join forces and share what worked well for us with other trainers, which is where we are now - concentrating exclusively on Trainer Development.
I work throughout the English speaking world (Christophe does the same but being French, works mainly in the French speaking world).

Most of my time is filled working in-house developing the skills of in-house training teams. Some of the names I’ve worked with include household names you are sure to know including Coca Cola, Decathlon, Jewson, Shell, Microsoft, RSPB, Shelter, Natural History Museum, Amnesty International, Ricoh, Standard Life, Compass Group, Burger King, Carlsberg, ABB, UBS, The Royal Courts of Justice, Lloyds Banking Group, Bank of Scotland, Royal Mail, Decathlon …

I'm continually looking for new ideas and techniques to make the learning process easier, more enjoyable and longer lasting for all learners. Techniques on their own are not enough; they must be rigorously checked against latest research from the worlds of education and neuroscience. People say,

"Your exciting and flexible approach to sharing your methods of increasing the value of training is infectious. You cannot help but be inspired."

These will be added following your training