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Delivering a fun and interesting training session is easy. Delivering a boring training session is even much easier. I can do it. You can do it. Everybody can do it.
Eager to know more?
Here are the tips.
Say ‘No’ to ice breaker and energizer activities. They are just wasting your time. Many people are so fond of having activities to fire up the participants or to grab the audience’s attention to the training session or to the facilitator him/herself. But you know what, this so-called ‘short’ activity is actually time-consuming because the participants will have fun and ask for more. ‘It’s not enough. We want more,’ they will say. Besides that, as a facilitator, you have to prepare yourself for that particular energizer. You need to at least know how to do it because you will be mocked if you facilitate an energizer that you do not master. You see, preparation for one energizer also requires your time and energy.
Avoid discussion. When you give an opportunity for the audience or training participants to ask questions or to criticize the training materials/session, it will just open a window of opportunity for them to start questioning what you train. You will lose your power and dignity. The result of it is that they will not trust you for the next session. Therefore, do not ever end your session (or in the middle of the session) by asking, ‘Is there any question?’ Whatever the circumstance is, keep on going. If there are some people raising their hands and ask if they can ask some questions, just say, ‘Sorry, we do not have any discussion session for today.’ Easy, isn’t it?
I am Mr/s Know-All. Giving training is all about sharing to participants about you know. It’s all about what you know, not what they want to know. So, it is you who runs the show. You are the main actor. You see, people come to your training because they eager to know what you know. Well, there are also some participants who actually come to training with having background knowledge on the trained issues. Since they already know some things, they tend to test you with questions and comments that will discredit you. Well, with this kind of participants, simply tell them that your source is the right one and that theirs is out-of-date. If they insist on telling you comments that might endanger the whole training process, one key sentence that we can always say is, ‘We don’t have much time to argue about this. So why don’t you write your questions or comment on a piece of paper and I will give you better explanation later.’ Well, you know better that it will now likely to happen.
Keep talking, I mean that’s why you want to be a trainer, right? To train people. And to do so, you need to be good at talking. So, do what you’re good at. Talk. Don’t give an opportunity to the participants to start talking. If you do, they will steal your talking time and they will do the training instead.
‘Stay in your comfort zone.’ Your seat is your comfort zone. Why bother yourself to move around? It will just distract the participants’ attention. By staying at your seat or desk, participants can concentrate more and absorb the explanation that you give. Besides that you will not drop a single sweat, except if the room is hot and not air-conditioned.
Glue your audience to their seats. Don’t move. Freeze. It’s pretty much similar to ‘stay in your comfort zone’ idea. There is no advantage to invite participants to mingle and get to know each other. Trainees are here to absorb your explanation. This requires them to sit and enjoy the sessions. Isn’t it nice to have an audience that sits still?
There is no fun in having fun. Having fun requires extra energy, preparation, effort and ‘extraterrestrial’ media. If you concentrate on this thing, you will end up spending your valuable time just for the sake of entertaining the participants. I mean, what is the use of entertaining participants when you are not entertained with what you do to them. Participants attend your training for knowledge, skills, and for attitude. They do not come for laughter. They do not come for smiles. They definitely do not attend your training sessions for energizer and ice-breaker activities. And of course you do not want them to remember your training for the ‘fun’ they have. They should remember your training for the knowledge and skills they gain.
Quiet, please. Music, video, and other sound are prohibited. This multimedia stuff will just distract the participants’ attention, not to mention your concentration too. Moreover, having music and video require sound system and projector. What if the training venue does not provide these tools? Will you stick to your plan and have 30 – 40 participants gather around your laptop just to have a glimpse of what you play? How silly is that?
So, what do you think? It’s easy, isn’t it?
The question now is, ‘how boring can you go?’
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