I hope you all had a good summer vacation. I’m already back in full swing. Last Monday we started a new project with part of the fantastic team of Coaching 4 Results. It’s always exciting to deliver a first session with a new customer. In this case, a group of 16 professionals with their expectations, opinions, ways of acting …
For a trainer it´s a challenge to create the right climate for participants to learn and then to transfer the knowledge to their job. Therefore, I always have in mind the following adult learning principles:
- Focus on real problems and situations
- Emphasize how the learning can be applied
- Relate the learning to the participants’ goals
- Allow debate and the challenge of ideas
- Listen to and respect the opinions of participants
- Encourage participants to help each other
- Treat them as adults
I hope this serves as a reminder, especially if you are also devoted to training.