Project Management: TRAINING

Applied Learning Theory 101: Matching Delivery to Learning Preferences

Remember that you are targeting a wide audience and that your participants will have widely different preferences for how they acquire knowledge. To the extent you can, try to appeal to as many of these preferences as possible.

• Slides and materials. The PowerPoint files included in this book are intentionally minimalist in design. Too many workshops consist of an endless series of densely filled slides that are both difficult to read and tedious to try to cover in a classroom setting. Some of your audience will not mind this sort of presentation, but most will find such workshop formats intolerable. For your visual learners, have handouts or additional reading lists available, ...