Posts by: David Wilson

David Wilson

About David Wilson

David Wilson, who manages Corporate Training Zone, is a highly experienced Instructional Designer, Corporate Trainer & Learning & Development Specialist. David is passionate about Instructional Design and Learning & Development.

Designing Results-Driven Facilitator Guides

This instructional design tip will help you develop effective facilitator guides and resources to make sure your courses achieve the learning results you want! A facilitator guide is much more than just a document that lists training content and activity … Read more »

Training Needs Analysis – Getting it Right

Designing an effective, results-driven training program can be a long and expensive process. Too often business managers are in a hurry, wanting the new training program to be delivered yesterday. This puts a lot of pressure on the Training Department … Read more »

5 Ways to get Participants Out of their Chairs & Learning

If you design or deliver training sessions that run for a day or more where your participants remain seated for long periods of time, chances are, they’ll get tired, uncomfortable and distracted, and lose concentration. During any training course, unless … Read more »

How to Learn that Training Material Faster!

As Instructional Designers or trainers, we’re constantly in the process of learning. When you’re under pressure to read and learn a lot of material for a new training project, the stress levels can sky rocket! Over my career as both … Read more »

Do you invite or block questions when you’re training?

Great trainers make sure they ask their learners if they have any questions about the content they’ve covered. Providing these opportunities for questions at regular intervals helps your learners to clarify their understanding and close any gaps they may have … Read more »