TRC Interactive's Training Today eNewsletter September 1, 2004

Welcome to the latest edition of Training Today! 
In each issue we bring you useful ideas, tools and information to enhance your training.

It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over

The end of any training program should not be the end of the educational experience. All too many programs have notebooks and manuals collecting dust on shelves. You can help by following through with the participants. Whether it’s an online course, a live seminar, a webinar, or a Teller Training program, reminders of key learning points refresh learning, and improve retention. In addition, it accelerates the transfer of learning from training to the branch or office.

 

 


 

 

After a course, try:

  • Sending reminders to take action on what was taught (in live classes, have them fill out their own reminders, and send them later) 
  • Having them keep in touch with others who trained at the same time to encourage and help each other achieve goals 
  • Putting key concepts on novelty items, and send them to participants 
  • Creating emails with graphic reminders similar to “e-cards” 
  • Having them complete periodic surveys that measure their post training achievement

Have any more suggestions? Send an email to feedbacktrc@trcinteractive.com, and we’ll include them in future newsletters.

 

Ice Breakers... Get the Ball Rolling

Here are a couple of ways that Trainers "break the ice" and help trainees feel more comfortable.

Toilet Tissue

Begin your introduction by tossing a roll of toilet paper to one person with the instructions to take as many "squares" as he or she wants, and then pass the roll onto the next person and so on until everyone has taken as many squares as they want. Then say to the group, "For each square of toilet tissue you have taken, please share something about yourself." Class members who took a lot of toilet paper will groan, but the exercise helps build familiarity and camaraderie.

Headlines

You'll need a piece of white paper with a 2" x 3" rectangle drawn on it. Within the rectangle draw an oval representing a person's face. Make enough copies to give each class member a copy. In your local newpaper there are often 2" x 3" pictures of an individual's face with headlines like "Local Person Promoted" and a short article.

Tell your class to interview another person in the class for about five minutes. They should then create a headline and a short biography for a "make believe" newspaper and sketch a characterization of their interviewee in the picture frame. Tell them to have fun with this exercise and when they are finished, have each person read his or her article to everyone else in the class. This exercise also helps to stimulate good-natured rapport among the participants.

Although it takes up a few minutes of precious classroom time, an icebreaker of some sort is important in establishing a non-threatening tone and friendly atmosphere for your training session. 

Have any more suggestions? Email
feedbacktrc@trcinteractive.com, and we’ll include them in future newsletters.


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Happy Training!

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TRC Interactive, Inc.
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Harrisburg, PA  17109

 

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