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Articles & Books From Elaine Biech
Cheat Sheet / Updated 09-01-2022
Training and development can be incredibly rewarding, but it is also filled with challenges. This Cheat Sheet aims to cut to the chase in several key areas that trainers deal with all the time. You'll find succinct tips on avoiding pitfalls, designing great visuals, and loads of quick ideas to improve your sessions.
Retain outstanding talent with a successful training and development program One of the best ways to retain great talent in your business is to deliver a strong training and development program—and this book gives you the tools to do just that. Featuring the latest strides in talent development, such as social learning, hybrid training, creating videos, and more, it arms you with everything you need to upskill employees to be more effective, productive, satisfied, and loyal.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Anytime you participate in a training program, whether it is in a virtual or a traditional classroom, whether it was off-the-shelf or developed from scratch, whether it was taught by someone inside your organization or an external vendor, whether it was a program teaching management development skills or word processing skills, chances are that the program was designed by following a specific process, or a representative ISD model.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
There are so many things you may think about to facilitate and encourage participation in a training and development session. Don't worry about learning and perfecting all of them.
Many of them will become as natural as good communication skills. That's because many are natural. In effect, it comes down to your reaction to the learners and the learning situation.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Trainers are most successful when they understand conditions under which adults learn best. Therefore, it is important to understand the difference between why adults learn and how adults are traditionally taught.
The traditional style of teaching is based on a didactic model, a synonym for lecturing. Generally this model is teacher-led and content-centered.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Have you ever wondered why you spent the time to train your employees, but they still don’t seem to do what you trained them to? Include this 12-pack of good ideas in your training, and you can guarantee success.
Be prepared.
State the objectives.
Be organized.
Use visuals.
Answer questions.
Be enthusiastic.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Developing a more effective training session is definitely in your best interest. When designing a training session, ensure that you maximize the learning that occurs by doing the following things:
Build in practical, relevant examples.
Make it interactive; learning is not passive.
Enrich with content; don’t underestimate your learners’ potential.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
You have many ways to ensure participation in training and development. Mostly it comes down to your reaction to the learners and their learning situation. How do you react to ensure an environment that encourages the best opportunities for participation? How do you react to create the best learning experience?
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
You want your training session to be specific to your goals and provide information that can’t be found in generic training resources. To set your training apart from materials your participants can get online or from a book, be sure to do the following in your training:
Create a supportive learning environment.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
If you really want your training to take hold and be retained, you need to have effective visuals. Visuals must enhance — not detract from — your training delivery. Be sure that you follow the VISUAL laws.
Visible: Words on visuals are large enough, and you don’t block the view.
Interesting: Oriented to the learner, visuals make use of pictures, graphs, color, and bullets.