How Adults Learn - Live Online

Objectives

• Define a strategy for successful learning.
• Incorporate adult learning principles in your training.
• Structure your training so learners can achieve required performance.
• Identify adults’ preferred learning styles.
• Create training that addresses all learning styles.
• Incorporate techniques for learners to acquire, store, and retrieve information.
• Apply descriptive language techniques to trigger the senses.
• Frame questions to encourage deeper learning.
• Help adults facilitate their own learning.
• Employ memorable summary and review techniques.
• Determine if your training is geared towards adult learners.

What you will learn

Structure of Training

• How to structure training to address all learning styles.
• Tools and techniques for incorporating vital adult learning principles into your courses.
• How to draw on your wealth of knowledge and skill to build a customized list of adult learning principles.
• A simple yet effective recipe that guarantees transfer of skills back on the job.
• What successful and unsuccessful learning looks, sounds, and feels like.
• A quick and easy technique to map out successful learning.
• How you can influence the learner and provide the conditions under which learning can take place.
• The factors you can control as a designer and instructor.
• A quick tool to assess different learning styles.
• Suggested training strategies for each learning style.
• How to adjust your course design and delivery to appeal to all styles.
• A comprehensive list of 62 adult learning principles.

Process of Learning

• Powerful techniques that allow learners to acquire and store information more easily and retain it longer.
• How to create powerful memory hooks.
• Guidelines for using techniques that trigger the senses, plus 21 examples.
• How to create similes, metaphors, analogies, allusions, personifications, anecdotes, and stories to enhance training.
• A grab bag of descriptive language to incorporate into your training.
• How to dig below surface-level questions to encourage deeper learning.
• 6 levels of questions to promote learning acquisition and retention.
• An easy-to-use worksheet for developing questions and expected answers.
• How to create an environment that motivates learners.
• 40 ways to help your learners help themselves in the classroom and on their own.
• A time-saving job aid that your learners can use to create quick summaries.
• A checklist of 150 actions to ensure adult learners get the most out of training.
• How to build memorable reviews and summaries into your training.
• Fun and easy-to-design review and summary methods.
• 6 guidelines for delivering a story.
• A tool to help you assess your enthusiasm level.
• How to verify that you have applied adult learning principles to your courses.