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 »

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 »

Do you actively manage your voice to ensure it is healthy and in optimal condition? In one of our previous tips:  Optimal Voice Health (Part 1) we listed 7 things that trainers and facilitators can do to help support their voice. Here … Read more »

Every profession has a set of “tools of the trade” that they need to look after and keep working well.  Carpenters have hammers and bench-saws, painters have paints and palettes, and farmers have tractors and plows (ploughs). As Learning & … Read more »

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 »

“My successful, intelligent and experienced adult learners are riddled with anxiety! What’s going on here?”As educators, it’s essential to deliver professional training sessions that educate and entertain our participants. But even if we do manage to do that, it doesn’t … Read more »

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 »

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 »