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723 Conducting OSH Training
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723 Conducting OSH Training

Tips for Training Adults

  • Preview what's on the agenda. Giving adult learners an advanced organizer, like workshop goals or objectives, helps them to retain information.
  • Where's the beef? Show them the benefits of the training. Emphasize WIIFM (What's In It For Me).
Image showing adult students during classroom training
Giving adult learners an advanced organizer helps them to retain information.
  • Understand these three important principles of motivation:
    1. YOU can NOT motivate people;
    2. All people are motivated; and
    3. People do things for their own reasons, not yours
  • The five ways to squelch motivation
    1. The absolute worse thing you can do is to ignore a student's question.
    2. Get participants in a passive mood and keep them there.
    3. Assume class participants will apply what is taught.
    4. Be quick to criticize.
    5. Make participants feel stupid for asking questions in class.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

3-6. What is the absolute worst thing you can do, as a trainer, to squelch a student's motivation?

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