As many trainers and teachers already know, people have different learning styles.  Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences.    Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep.   Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? After all, how … [Read more...]

Over the past month,  I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning.       My questions are: 1.  How can we integrate content sharing and audience interaction in the right balance to unleash pearls of wisdom from both audience and the experts on the stage? 2. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? 3. How can nonprofits learn from … [Read more...]