Have you delivered a training session before when you feel that the energy is really low, your audience are not motivated and whatever you do you feel that it is just not working? Sometimes it may get to the point when you just want to press the rewind button and start over again.
The secrets of being a great trainer is to be able to feel the energy in your training room, identify when your trainees are starting to lose concentration, notice when they are getting all fidgety and then be able to change the pace of your training to catch them JUST BEFORE they dip.
One of my Mentors carried out an experiment in their trainings where, over a number of their training events, they videoed their audience from the back of the room. They identified that after just 20 minutes of sitting down and being trained, the majority of their trainees started to move in their chairs and get fidgety. It was a bit like a tidal wave, once one started moving a large number of the other trainees started moving/changing positions as well.
This just shows that in order to achieve maximum results from your training sessions you need to ensure that before you even start your training you have created a great environment for learning, everything is prepared ready for your trainees to arrive and that your content is structured in such a way that you work with the 20 minute cycles to keep your trainees energised. (More about this, coming soon!)
Then once your trainees start arriving, you need to be mentally ready for them. YOU are the one who creates the energy in your training room. If your trainees are falling asleep, they are not focused on what you are training them, they are fidgety, then I am sorry to say, this is down to YOU!
You are the mirror of your trainees. If your energy is low, their energy is likely to be low. If you have lost focus, they will lose focus if they haven’t done so already. If you are getting tired and you are showing it, they will be mirroring your energy.
So, to uplift your training event and achieve fantastic results then you must set the environment, create the energy, be energised and motivated yourself, include icebreakers and exercises in your training and keep your trainees uplifted throughout.
As soon as you feel the energy dip, be first of all aware of your own body language, how are you feeling, what are you doing? Then make the change in your energy, you will be amazed as to what difference just this makes.
Now you may need to conduct some form of exercise to help deliver your next bit of training. If you have structured your training effectively you will have a maximum of 20 minutes of data training before you introduce a state change. This could be done by asking your trainees to move around (change their state) whilst doing an icebreaker or an exercise.
Accelerated Learning is also a brilliant way to keep the energy ignited in your training room.
Icebreakers, also, generate energy a little bit like the electricity you get from the dynamo on a bike. While the wheels are turning, the dynamo is working and the energy will light the lamps. If you stop pedalling the lights stay bright for a while but, as the bike slows down, the lights get dimmer and eventually go out.
Use your Icebreakers effectively and ensure that you use the energy that you have generated straight away. Either make use of it to fuel a discussion or to get you through a particularly tough piece of theory. Or, even better, use the Icebreaker to demonstrate the tough piece of theory, the more practical your training is the more you will meet all the learning styles of your trainees.
If you follow your Icebreaker with a coffee break or lunch you may have wasted a valuable energy boost unless, of course, you are using it as a feedback session at the end of your training or to wrap up what your trainees have learnt in that session.
So next time you feel that you feel that your audience are starting to get de-motivated and the energy is getting low then use one of the above techniques to raise that energy and bring the fun back in to your trainings!
Check out this blog for loads more Icebreakers and training tips on how to raise the energy in your training.
P.S Why don’t you share your experiences of your training sessions here on this blog so others can learn from YOUR experiences!
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