The Workshop for Training Unmotivated & Reluctant Learners-National Seminars Group at NationalSeminarsTraining.com

Program Description:
Anyone who trains other people, whether in school or on the job, knows the frustration (or fear) that
happens when faced with unmotivated learners. It’s hard enough to cover the material, but when you
have to overcome apathy, boredom, or even outright anger for having to be in class, your job as a trainer
becomes a thousand times harder.

That’s why we’ve created The Workshop for Training Unmotivated & Reluctant Learners, a new and exciting seminar for discouraged trainers who want new ways to light fires under the most challenging learners. Attend this fast-paced one-day workshop and you’ll learn dozens of adult-learning strategies guaranteed to make your life as a teacher or trainer easier!

Find the Keys to Unlocking Every Student’s Potential – Even When They’re Slamming the Door in Your Face!

If you’ve ever thought, “Y’know, I’m not standing here trying to teach you this material for my own health,” then this is the most essential training you’ll take all year! In our position as the nation’s top business training company, we encounter the most difficult and challenging learner behaviors every single day. Our training faculty is filled with the best and brightest men and women in the field, and now we can share their “secrets” with you!

In just one day with us, you’ll learn proven techniques that will instantly change attitudes and ignite motivation – guaranteed! You’ll learn simple – but powerfully effective – tricks that will “prime the pumps” of even your most obnoxious or difficult learners. In short, there isn’t any challenge we haven’t seen – or that we can’t turn around! And we’ll teach you how to overcome them all.|

Gain the Essential Skills You Need to Achieve the Results You Want!

What You'll Learn:
Even one unmotivated or reluctant learner can distract your audience and alter your training plans. You need proven motivation strategies that are guaranteed to get results no matter how many reluctant learners you’re dealing with. Attend this one-day seminar and you’ll learn how to ...

Identify the root causes of a learner’s resistance and overcome them

Deal immediately with the problem before it infects everyone else’s attitudes

Master motivation strategies you can use in any training situation

Effectively shut down snipers, gripers, and hecklers in your audience

Gain instant buy-in and support

Who Should Attend?
•Training professionals
•Training directors
•HR professionals
•Team leaders
•Managers and supervisors
•Instructional designers
•Educators and teachers
•Anyone with training responsibilities

Workshop Agenda:

“The Doctor Is In” : Getting Inside the Heads of Adult Learners

What makes adult learners tick – and what ticks them off
Knowing the difference between people who don’t want to learn – and those who are having trouble learning
Understanding and overcoming the root causes of low motivation and reluctant learning
Assessing what each learner wants from you and giving it to them
Characteristics successful motivational trainers all possess – and use – every day
How to give a boost to a learner who has failed again and again – and again
How to identify and facilitate various adult-learning styles
Why it’s important to give unmotivated learners choices in their training – and exactly what those choices should be
Specific techniques you can use to ensure learner retention long after your training session ends
Creating analogies and metaphors that have meaning for your difficult learners and enhancing the power of your instruction

Cutting-Edge Motivational Training Strategies Anyone Can Master

When should you use intrinsic motivation and when do you use extrinsic motivation?
Analyzing your current teaching and training style – are you your students’ worst enemy?
How to make goal setting one of your greatest motivational tools
Assessing your curriculum: Is it giving you – and your learners – what is needed?
Linking your learning objectives with learning activities
Using humor as a learning tool without going too far
Strategies every top trainer can use to encourage interest and focus in class
Questioning techniques guaranteed to boost retention
Why learning should be considered a “team sport”
Processing and the role it plays in enhancing motivation

Overcoming the Most Maddening Motivational Challenges

How to effectively respond to perplexing and disruptive personalities
Knowing how a “healthy” learning group functions – and what to do if your group is looking a little “ill”
One bad apple CAN spoil the whole bunch – effectively dealing with one difficult personality without losing the rest of your class
How to keep your cool when everything is falling apart around you Foolproof ways to manage your “training stress”
How to keep your sense of humor intact (or at least borrow someone else’s!)
Expert insight into increasing learner buy-in from even your most obstinate students
Combating boredom in the classroom (theirs … not yours)
Identifying and avoiding the Top Ten most common de-motivators in any classroom
How to stay cool and keep your wits when your learners keep making mistakes

Positively “Charging” Your Learning Environment and Electrifying Your Training

Why creating a “safe” learning environment is vital – and how to do it
How to make the most “routine” lessons fun
Making even the driest, most technical training seem like a day at the beach
The subtle art of asking the right questions exactly the right way to enhance learner involvement
How to relate everything you teach to your learners’ situations
How the layout of your training room can enhance – or destroy – your trainees’ abilities to learn
Implementing a formal feedback process that ensures they understand the material
Icebreakers guaranteed to get your group’s attention from the first minute
How to determine if the pacing and flow of your training is at its optimal level
Tips for keeping learner eagerness alive and well throughout your training