Cameron Herold breaks down why training fails and how to fix it. A 30-minute session needs two hours of prep. Hit all three learning styles—visual, auditory, kinesthetic—with lecture, demo, role-play, and practice woven through the experiential learning cycle.
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I am so lucky that I learned this skill so long ago. 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. 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. The 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. 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 very proficient way, but you're covering the four 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. 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.
