Trainer’s Corner: The Unique Needs of Professional Adult Learning

In most areas of life, when we are expected to teach something to another person, we revert to the teaching style we experienced throughout childhood. In the United States, that teaching style is largely rote memorization and regurgitation of facts. As adults, this is far less effective. With adult learning, successful trainers have discovered that we must present information in a way that resonates both professionally and inter-personally. Workshop training guru, Mark Snow, describes the importance of presenting adult learning in terms of life skills (rather than just work skills). The most effective adult learning strategies require defining the participants own “why?” which will make the workshop leader’s content much more likely to stick. As the visionary and catalyst behind the revolutionary DISC Workshop Leader Certification, Mark Snow offers some terrific guidance on how to accomplish this.
Trainer’s Corner: The Unique Needs of Professional Adult Learning
by Mark Snow
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