Which of your trainers are bored? The 3 tell tale signs…
Imagine (or maybe you don’t have to imagine) sitting through a training course where the trainer is just going through the motions… It’s not good for the trainer or their company and a poor experience for the paying delegates. So here are the three tell-tale signs that a trainer is getting bored delivering a course. […]
The 7 Things A Training Provider Should Never Do
Everywhere you look, there is great advice on how to run training courses, what to do and how to do it. But no one tells you what not to do – those things that are guaranteed to disappoint or detract from your training. So here is the top list of 7 things to never do: […]
Thoughtful Friday: Think Like Einstein
Continuing Professional Development shouldn’t be a chore – but to many it is. Spending time training to brush up on your skills, when you have a job to do, can be stressful and tiresome. It’s easy to lose your passion for learning. Albert Einstein was a great Physicist and Nobel Laureate. He had a way […]
How to Manage Disruptive Delegates in your Training
One person can ruin a course if they are not carefully managed. Disruptive delegates are something that you will have to deal with. So here is a fool proof way to deal with them. Start by figuring out how a disruptive delegate behaves that makes them disruptive. They are not necessarily loud boorish characters, they […]
Restructure your Training to Get More Bookings
It’s easy to get stuck in the rut of delivering the training that you have always delivered. So here are five thinking points to help you make your training more relevant and attractive to your clients. Re-structure your courses Instead of running a 3 day course over consecutive days, allow / encourage delegates to split […]
3 Killer Tricks to Sell More Training
Know your Accreditation renewal dates When are your different clients’ renewal dates for CPD? For example, Accountants CPD renews on 1st January each year. So what? Well, if you were to log the CPD hours that each delegate has accumulated with you over the year and send this, along with a copy of their certificates during October, […]
Do Professionals do CPD for Pride or Compliance?
For some people, undertaking CPD is something they take pride in – something they would do even if they didn’t have to. But others do the bare minimum to be compliant with their industry body. So, which are your clients, and why does it matter, as long as they do it? Let us first take […]
Six Tell Tale Signs your Training Material is Dead
The last thing you want to spend your time doing is updating your training material every few weeks – re-printing references, hand-outs and slides. But everything has a shelf life…So how many of these training offences are you committing? Slides are two years old Aside from the date on your slides, the content itself starts […]
8 Top Tips from the UK’s Best Trainers
We’re in a fortunate position, getting to see the “best of the best” trainers in action and hear their best advice. Here are their tips. Beware, many sound simple but applying them consistently yields fantastic results. Set the dress code in advance You don’t want to be that person in jeans when everyone else is […]
Why Your Training Business Needs To Be CPD Accredited In Numbers
1600 professional bodies in the UK alone. Each has its own membership with varying membership and CPD requirements. 5,000,000 individuals undergoing CPD or in CPD Schemes in the UK. Each professional undergoing CPD in the UK will average 15 to 20 hours of CPD every year This all means that there are over 12,000,000 days of CPD […]