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Training Consultants: Learning Styles and Strategies

Introducing a new technology or strategic ideology across an organization can be a daunting task.  Training consultants are faced with many challenges when constructing corporate training programs, including a limited time frame, conflicting learning styles and differing learning strategies.  To accomplish desired results, consultants must make sure the learners are engaged and comfortable with the material and delivery.    

Learner engagement is so important that, in recent years, we have seen a significant growth of research into the subject of learning styles.  An individual learning style is defined as the way in which a learner takes in information, processes that information and applies it to solve and understand problems.  

As a training consultant, you will invariably be faced with many different styles and learners.  It is important to identify the underlying style of your audience before diving too deep into the creation of lesson plans and activities.  Depending on the size of your group, identifying the learner's preferred learning styles can be approached through having a discussion with the learners themselves, their managers or distributing a learning style questionnaire.  Being aware of the preferred styles will avoid a mismatch in style between yourself, the training consultant, and the learners.    

Once a clear picture of the preferred physical learning style is understood, lesson plans can be easily structured to specifically address some or all of the styles.  In most cases, a combination of two or more styles will be needed.      

To help you dive quicker into the creation and introduction of material, we’ve listed the 4 most common learning styles along with suggested teaching strategies to help engage each group.

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Contract Training Consultants: Helping Them Join Your Team

When rolling out a major company-wide training program, most organizations turn to contract training consultants.  Upon bringing these training consultants on board, a company expects to see positive results and achievement of specified goals.  The best results come when those contract training consultants are seamlessly integrated into the organization.  Integration is achieved when the training consultant understands and shares the organization's culture and values, when they are accepted by staff as being valuable members of the team and when they are made an integral part of the company infrastructure.

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Inc. Magazine Unveils Its Annual Exclusive List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private
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Public Speaking Tips All Training Consultants Should Know

Tips From Top Training Consultant Company

If this blog post was about the top fears of new training consultants, public speaking would be at the top of the list.  For the inexperienced training consultant starting out fresh, the nerves awaken by fear of public speaking can significantly impact the effectiveness of an important presentation.  Whether it’s realizing you are rambling on, losing your audience or forgetting your lines, this fear boils down to the fear of being ridiculed and rejected by your peers.

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Are Instructional Designers Still Relevant?

The growth and quick adoption rates of eLearning authoring tools like Articulate, Captivate and Lectora have raised questions in many organizations as to the relevancy and value of instructional design services.  

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Maximize Effectiveness when Interviewing Training Consultants

Interviewing a training consultant may be rather intimidating when trying to determine if the candidate has the right skill set you are looking for.  Knowing whether or not they are the right fit for your group is sometimes hard to assess in one conversation, especially if you are interviewing from a virtual location. 

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Training Consultants: Effective Communication – Part 2

Our last blog titled “Training Consultants Top 4 Tips on Active Listening” received a flurry of
questions, comments and attention.  So much that we decided to publish a second blog touching on another important element of effective communication – body language. 

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