Here are 20 of the tips that we at WorldGAMES use when training others to train: - Always use a simple frame-up that sets tight rules for the training
- Acknowledge participants and draw out their benefits for the training (not yours)
- Get participant buy-in to rules and benefits
- Seek to influence with integrity
- Walk your talk
- If you do not know something ... say so
- Care about participants and show it
- Ask plenty of questions
- Listen, watch and get a feel for where your audience are at - constantly
- Draw out participants' experience - collectively the group knows more than you
- Honor participants' experience of the activity - do not tell them what they felt
- Paint pictures, use metaphors and war stories and keep them short and relevant
- Be a coach, guide and facilitator rather than a preacher or teacher
- Accept that participants will see the world differently - honor their model of the world
- Appeal to all learning styles whenever possible (visual, auditory and kinaesthetic)
- Handle hot issues - avoid them at your peril
- Be cautious with humor - it is easy to offend
- Involve the whole group at all times
- Be yourself
- Be open
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