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Creative Presentation Methods to Keep Them on the Edge of their Seats
Posted by: | CommentsDo you have some creative training methods in your teaching repertoire? If you do, your students will be much more appreciative!
I’ve designated June ‘Trainer Appreciation Month’. So, all my blogs for leadership are focused on training. Why? As a real estate owner or manager, you have only 2 ways to increase your production: Hire it or train to it. I really appreciate trainers, so here’s information to make your presentation or workshop entertaining and riveting.
If you’re presenting in front of 2 or hundreds, you must wonder at times whether your delivery is interesting. Too often, we drone through the subject, stop to tell a joke or two, and just trudge through the trenches of information until the clock tells us to stop!
Are your students nodding off as the day goes on? Do you frantically wonder how to keep their attentiona��all day? The answer is not what you think it is. Recently, I taught my Instructor Development course to real estate professionals and affiliates. Ia��ve taught this course for about fifteen years.
NOT! In todaya��s frantic world, the person in front of everyone cannot hope to hold studentsa�� attention for more than 10 minutes at a time! If you think Ia��m wrong, just count the number of commercials in a TV break. These commercials are down to about 15 seconds apiece. The images go by so fast you can scarcely count them. In fact, wea��ve become a society of easily distracted, multi-tasking, not very focused beings (watch pedestriansa��or driversa��in action with a cell phonea��..).
The Focus Doesna��t Have to Be On You at All Times
So, what are you going to do to a�?holda�� studentsa�� attention? You are going to implement some teaching methods called
alternative delivery methods
Alternative delivery methods: all those methods used to teach that are NOT lecture. Examples: Town hall, task force, case study, role play, action plan.
Don’t know how to use these? Here are two resources
1. My video series) This week, I’ll be sharing my complimentary 5-part video series (short videos) on how to use these methods (and how to put together a great workshop). See them all on my UTube channel
2. The Ultimate Real Estate Trainer’s Guide
Give your Students some Credit
People who lecture their way through a day (or days!) either
- Just dona��t have any repertoire of alternative teaching methods
or
2. Just dona��t think the students can be involved with theirs and othersa�� learning
How to Teach through Student Involvement
Instead of talking through each point you have on your PowerPoint slide or in our outline (boy, is that riveting!), use town hall, task force, case study, and role play to teach. If you’re not comfortable switching out of ‘lecture’ style, take an Instructor Development course or see my resource, The Ultimate Real Estate Trainer’s Guide to learn those methods, and practice using them in class.
Youa��ll find your students know much more than you think they do about what youa��re teaching. Youa��ll be able to clarify points of concern, use the talents in your class, and actually provide a stimulating, active learning environment. The result: your students will be energized all day (and you will be, too!).
If You Present: Tips to Stop Them from Being Bored!
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If you teach: tips to stop them from being bored!
Let’s get honest. Do your students get bored when you present? As a student, you know those 71/2 clock hour courses can be killers! The presenter goes on and on. It may be great information, but, after _____ minutes (you fill in your blank), you just zone out (usually about 10-15 minutes!). And, sellers and buyers feel the same way about boring presentations.
Here are 2 quick tips to rev up your presentations, increase your effectiveness, and keep your a�?audiencea�� riveted.
- Ask more questions
Dona��t go over 3 minutes in a listing or buyer presentation without asking a question. How about your presentations? Do you drone on for A? hour or an hour without involving your audience? Quit right now. Thata��s where your audience a�?controla�� problems starta��when ita��s all about you.
Action: Write down a question you can ask during your normal a�?lecturea�� period. Or, as a listing or buyera��s agent, write down a question you can ask instead of droning on over 3-4 minutes.
- Quit lecturing your way through all that time!
You can even do some of this with your sellers and buyers. Involve them in the process!
Action: If youa��ve taken an instructor development course, go back and see where the instructor used a�?alternative delivery methodsa��. Then, find a place in your presentation where you could use one of these methods. Keep expanding your horizons!
The result: Youa��ll have more enthusiastic a�?receiversa��. Youa��ll have more fun teaching, and youa��ll greatly reduce any audience a�?controla�� challenges.
Click here to grab my ‘workshop cheat sheet’, which shows you how to put alternative delivery methods into any workshop–and in which order so they ‘flow’ right.
Is the Course You Teach Just a Lecture (read ‘boring’ to students!)?
Is the class youa��re teaching (or supposed to teach) full of facts and figures? And, therea��s no instructor manual or guidance in how to teach it? Are you finding yourself talking through ita��talking for hours? (Even boring yourselfa��) Are you struggling to make that course come alive?
If you want to energize your course, keep your audience interested, and change their outcomes for the better, you need this unique course!
Bottom line: Youa��ll walk out of this course with the skills to take any boring class and make it highly participative, useful, and fun to teach. Youa��ll get the 3 best methods to use, how to use them, and when to use them to a�?plug them intoa�� any course at the right time. Youa��ll even have time to try out your new methods in your own course and get feedbacka��and watch others, too.A� Why not energize your course, have a better time teaching, and gain business all at the same time?
When: Sept. 12 and 14 (2 half days, so you can polish your course)
Time: 9:30 am to 1:30 pm each day
Where: Bellevue, Wa.
Investment: $149
Accredited for 7.5 clock hours in Washington state
Not in Washington? Contact Carla to bring her to your company or association and invigorate your courses so your students clamor to come back! (and they learn a lot!)