Cameron Herold explains why leaders should train groups in classrooms rather than one-on-one. A 30-minute class requires about two hours of prep work. Effective training mixes lecture, demonstration, role-play, and discussion so people learn through seeing, hearing, and doing.
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I am so lucky that I learned this skill so long ago. I learned it when we were scaling College Pro Painters. So this is well before I built 1-800-GOT-JUNK as their second in command. But the skill of classroom teaching, of maybe getting 3 to 10 of your direct reports, managers, frontline employees, and teaching them a skill, getting them up to speed on a skill, whether it's part of their core job that they're doing, or maybe it's a skill that's maybe one of the management skills inside Invest in Your Leaders. The skill of classroom training is key. And let me give you a couple of key tidbits or a couple of key points. It's going to take you as a leader 4 times as long to prepare for the session that you're actually running. So if you're running a 30-minute session, your prep should be about 2 hours to get completely ready for this. Second thing is to remember that everyone showing up at this classroom training session learns in a couple of different ways. You have visual learners, you have auditory learners, and you have kinesthetic learners. Those are the people that learn from doing. So you want to make sure that your training covers those core leadership and learning styles. Then you also want to make sure that you actually have a little bit of classroom teaching, a little bit of practicing, maybe a little bit of role-playing on the skill. Maybe there's some watching of people performing the skill in a, in a very proficient way. Maybe there's some talking to each other about how they did and demoing the skill. But you're covering the 4 different styles of learning. The abstract conceptualization, that's when you're learning the skill, to the active experimentation, that's the problem solving, the practicing, the role-playing. To the concrete experience, which you're going to use in the day to day. Maybe this is in the coming weeks and months after you run the classroom session. And then the reflective observation is them thinking about their learning. Anyway, if you like the quick and dirty on this classroom teaching, go to investinyourleaders.com. I get very in-depth on the area of classroom training as one of the 12 modules inside Invest in Your Leaders. It's key to get the CEO, COO, and anyone in your company who manages people going through this content. We'll see you on the inside. Investinyourleaders.com. All right. If you're the COO of a company that does at least $2 million or greater in revenue, or you're the CEO of a company and you're in the United States or Canada, if you would like a copy of my book, The Second in Command, for free, go to cooalliance.com/freebook. That's cooalliance/freebook. And I will mail you a copy for free. I will even cover the shipping. Jump on that one today.
