It’s an unfortunate fact of the corporate world that mandatory training can often be tedious, drawn-out, and worst of all, forgetful! If your job is to train other people on particular subjects in the workplace, it’s vital that you do so in a fun way, encourages participation, and is memorable. In short, you need to make your training more engaging.
With that in mind, what should you be doing? After all, there are only a handful of things you can do. You may not know it, but you’ll soon discover there’s plenty you can do to make each of your training sessions more fun and engaging. Let’s look at a few different ways to give you some inspiration.
Give a captivating introduction
When you start each training session, you need to make things interesting right off the bat. If you start with a dull introduction, people will typically assume that it sets the tone for the rest of the session!
Nevertheless, if you start the learning process in a fun and enjoyable manner, you will be more engaging to your audience. That’s why it makes sense to kick off proceedings with a captivating introduction.
Use games and quizzes to break things up
Unbelievably, games and quizzes are powerful ways to increase engagement during training sessions. These days, educational institutions often using gamification as a way of making learning more fun and rewarding. That’s something you should be aiming for with your corporate training sessions.
The reason why games and quizzes are effective when it comes to learning is that each person’s brain is “wired” to feel important when we achieve something. So, what kinds of games and quizzes work best in an educational setting such as a corporate training session?
If part of your training sessions involves testing the knowledge of topics being taught to people, you could create matching worksheets or crosswords. Such examples can easily be created online using WordMint, for example.
Nevertheless, if you would prefer something more interactive in your training, you could use augmented reality apps that each person can download to their phone.
Incorporate role-playing exercises
Even with the inclusion of games and quizzes in a corporate training session, you still need to include some other activities to keep everyone’s minds stimulated. Incorporating role-playing exercises is an excellent example to achieve that goal with a team of workers!
Getting people to stand up and role-play certain scenarios is fun, yes, but it also makes learning more memorable. Visual associations are good for remembering things. People watching or taking part in role-plays is one such visual association that is both beneficial and welcome in a corporate training environment.
Show visually compelling videos
One final idea to give you inspiration for your training sessions is to show participants in the room some videos. No, it’s not an excuse to sit down and watch a movie! Instead, compelling video content related to topics you are teaching is a way of both breaking up each session and making points more memorable.
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