Tough Training Topics: A Presenter's Survival Guide by Steve Albrecht

By Steve Albrecht

Written by way of Dr. Steve Albrecht, a battle-hardened coach who has spent a lot of his specialist existence taking assignments such a lot running shoes could particularly steer clear of, this very important source offers Albrecht’s confirmed method for surviving the relatively difficult education themes. tricky education themes covers a wide-variety of thorny concerns together with sexual harassment prevention, drug and alcohol rules, office violence prevention, opposed terminations, tension administration, security and safety schooling, worker orientations, clash solution, and lots of extra.

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17 So when it comes to the question between where you should put your design emphasis—content (what you tell them) versus delivery (how you tell them)—the answer is: It depends. ) One of my many flaws as a beginning trainer was over-preparation. My exercises were too complicated, my lectures were too long and complex, and my breaks too few. I was convinced that because I had a lot of information about my various subject areas, that I had to cram all of what I knew into the heads of the participants.

However, when I’m done for the day, I’m really done. Unlike the extrovert trainer, who feeds off the group and often finishes with as much or more energy as when he or she started, I’m spent. I don’t have the personality type, the energy, or the tools necessary to subject the group and myself to lots of “outside the box” training techniques. You can’t fake this training style. You either have the ego to use these high-energy, high-involvement approaches to get adults to learn, or you do not. I do not.

Hold it for a count of four. T h e Tr a i n e r ’ s M i n d 35 • Exhale slowly to a count of four. • Repeat this until you’ve done it four times. Pre-Training (Inside the Room) Use Music to Calm the Savage Breast I’m surprised how infrequently I see other trainers use music as a part of their pre-training rituals. Since most laptops have either Windows Media Player® or the Apple Macintosh® version pre-loaded on them, it’s easy and fast to simply place some pleasant, non-competitive music (no lyrics, no pulsing rock beats, just relaxing sounds) onto your Playlist.

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