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PLANNING Spending quality time in the preparation of contents, examples /exercises/roleplays to be given, stories to be told, case histories to be referred to, slides – pictures to be shown, questions to be asked, points to be referred to in briefing and debriefing are all part of planning. All these aspects, while placed on aContinue reading “TOT 61: Right thing at the Right time and place”

Fear is one of the strongest of emotions. It may disturb an individual in many aspects. Un addressed fear may have its negative impact on the level of performance of a trainer. Some people get disturbed many days earlier to presentation, some may get disturbed a day before or just few hours or minutes before,Continue reading “TOT 60: Facing your Fear”

Mediation is a living process. ‘It is now and here’. Mediator has to simultaneously use the theoretical and practical knowledge. Through training, trainer facilitates the trainees to get equipped with this requisite. Beginning the process, proceeding with it without pre-meditation, without setting an agenda, mechanically going through introduction, multiple joint and private sessions, and talkingContinue reading “TOT 59: Synchronizing Theoretical and Practical Knowledge”

Divide all the participants into two groups.  Identify one group as “petitioner” and the other group as “Respondent”. Ask one person from Petitioner’s group and one from respondent’s group to make notes of what is going to be stated by each one from the respective groups. Designate these two Persons as “RECORDER for Petitioner andContinue reading “TOT 58: Weaving a Story – Ice Breaker”

Some trainers are considered as best trainers because every sentence they speak gets underlined. Within each of such sentences every word they speak gets installed in the mind of the trainees. Many trainers may speak sensibly. But at the end of what they have spoken for every three minutes, if someone were to take anContinue reading “TOT 57: One Point at a Time”

Revisiting is a unique technique, which, if mastered makes the presentation more effective. Revisiting has to be preceded by: IDENTIFICATION Identify the concepts to be dealt with. Identify the methodology of explaining the concepts. Identify the examples/ stories/case histories to be shared or exercise/s to be done. Work out the above within the allocated time.Continue reading “TOT 56: Revisiting”

Story telling is a wonderful technique used to make presentation more interesting and appealing. In mediation training it is used to drive home a point. The following steps are required to be followed while using Story telling as part of presentation: Identify the objective – drive home point. Am I telling the story to makeContinue reading “TOT 55: Story Telling”

Lead trainers are living examples for the potential trainers. Seniority alone does not make a trainer a lead trainer. Lead trainer has to be very careful and watchful every second. Anything that the lead trainer does or says may leave a strong impact. A lead trainer may lose the credibility if the assigned role isContinue reading “TOT 54: Lead Trainers”

A template is a sample document with some cues on details to be incorporated therein. Templates of different kinds help a trainer in honing presentation skills. In order to take the best care of all the four quarters of presentation namely, (i) contents  (ii) Communication skills (iii) Presentation skills (iv) Time management, working with  preparatoryContinue reading “TOT 53: Use of Preparatory Templates”

Alignment is a technique which takes training to a master-class level. Elements of alignment Placement Order Free of clutter Placement Trainer has to place everything that is required to be conveyed to the trainees in the presentation. Nothing that is important and crucial should be left out. Trainer should know the difference between what is importantContinue reading “TOT 52: Alignment”