Methods Blog

It is often trainers who present content and explain contexts to learners. Who learns the most? Presumably the explainers themselves. Because explaining is a great way to learn. You can involve the participants even more actively with teaching method 16, "Turning and flipping".

Practical tips and approaches from Harald Groß of Orbium Seminare Berlin. I am often asked in train-the-trainer courses how good time planning for seminars can be achieved. While estimating the time for a lecture is relatively easy, it can be challenging to work out how long learning processes take in interactive seminars.

In your seminars, learners are inspired with lots of suggestions, help and ideas. That is good. It is even better if they put the first points into practice immediately after the workshop. With the "harvest helper" teaching method, you promote practical transfer from the very first minute of learning.

A course unit comes to an end. Now a good conclusion is needed to find out what was important to the participants. After the intensive learning period, a quick conclusion would be good, as the first learners are already heading home. "Feedback in three words" is very quick and provides a good impression of how the group experienced the training within a short space of time.

Anyone who stands at a flipchart all day or draws in a sketch notebook knows that it's pretty exhausting. And over time, it can lead to massive tension in your shoulders, arms and hands. That's why it's important that you put your marker aside from time to time and relax. For example with our yoga exercises. They can be practiced anytime and anywhere.

How can you get your seminar participants' learning going? You will find 44 small answers to this big question in the two inspiring card collections by Harald Gross "Small leverage - big impact".