Accelerated and byte sized learning

[Nigel Wyatt]

Do you have any experience in these areas?

What works and what doesn't?

[Richard White]

Hi Nigel

I have a lot of experience running my own accelerated learning workshops and helping others design theirs.

I do a 1 day workshop called Lead Generation Masterclass where people do some very advanced marketing analysis and gain significant insights in 10 minute chunks. Its very experiential...

With regards to bite sized learning - I have done 15 minute online workshops using a product called articulate. I have done face to face workshops of 1 hour too.

The key thing is to keep it very simple and focused. Better to take a small subject area and reinforce it rather than put in too much content.

In accelerated learning you need to accommodate different learning styles. Also stories and metaphor help greatly too. My saying is that people never learn something completely new. they need to tie in new content to things they already know - they expand knowledge and skills.

Best wishes

Richard White

[Nigel Wyatt]

Thanks Richard

Do you have a website for articulate?

I am currently thinking about developing some training messages with short vidoes - similar to the HRD Cafe advert video.

Nigel

[Richard White]

www.articulate.com

It is essentially an add-in to powerpoint. It allows you to do voice overs to animated powerpoint slides and converts them to a flash movie.

What I like about it is that it streams very quickly online because it saves each slide as a separate flash file.

Here is one I did as a sample:
www.pro-excellence.com/selfmotivation.html

Best wishes

Richard

[Linda Mattacks]

Hi Nigel

I've seen quite a lot of Richard's written and audio visual stuff and it's very good.

Firstly there's no prejudgement of the audience's current abilities.

Secondly he has a knack of combining just the right amount of information/ training/ illiustration/ ideas for individuals to follow up on that they can absorb within the time period without going into overload.

And thirdly his style is conversational, easy to follow yet entirely non-patronising.

Three good qualities (as a start) in any would be trainer in my book!

All the best

Linda