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BECOME A TEN MINUTE TRAINER

Designing Short Training Sessions that Work!

 When time and money are tight, make sure your training sessions have  “OOMPH!!” –

Outcomes, Order, Method, Practicality and Heart!!

 There are so many teams that would benefit from the capability to run short and useful training sessions – the sort of session that could take up ten minutes of a weekly meeting, for example.

Managers could and team leaders could include subjects such as:

• New/amended procedures, products or policies
• Repetitive regulatory training such as fire procedures, health & safety, equalities etc.
• Follow-up sessions to other training (e.g. the whole team has had a one-day ‘corporate’ session and the team leader designs a couple of short follow-ups to embed the learning and make it relevant to that team.)
• “Just in time” training – one-off subjects ‘as and when’  (e.g. the team leader spots a need to train, or retrain, everyone in a particular skill)
• Planned training – larger subjects can be broken into short sessions and trained over a period of time (e.g. customer care could be broken into component parts and covered weekly during team meetings)

 Benefits to the delegate and the organisation:

• Better trained staff
• Increased motivation as staff feel ‘developed’
• Gives your team a competitive edge
• All staff can be trained
• You don’t lose staff for a whole day while they go on a course
• Adds energy and extra value to a long meeting
• Staff get used to the sessions and develop a learning culture in the team
• Training become self-perpetuating as other team members learn how to design and run sessions
• Makes good use of team meetings, daily huddles etc.
• Staff can be trained without waiting for Training Department to arrange the course
• More training at less cost.

 Over the coming weeks and months, this I’ll be providing loads of free resources to help anyone to create bite-size training sessions which really work.

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 And, if you’d like to know what else the Ten Minute Trainer can do for you, the get in touch – andrew@tenminutetrainer.co.uk

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