Erskin Cherry : Creating Compelling and Effective Training

The difference between knowing it well enough for yourself and knowing it well enough to teach others is the same as picking a pear versus picking a prickly pear. –Erskin

You want people to learn something–maybe  a technical skill, maybe a factual history. Maybe someone needs help projecting confidence. Maybe you have hundreds of people that need to learn the new security system for the office building all before next Thursday. Regardless, you know something they don't, and you need to change that. You need to train people.

This guide will help you create initial training plans which you'll update as you learn what works and what doesn't. It will cover creating training plans, giving training, measuring training effectiveness, and making improvements based on feedback.

The One and Only Gospel Truth

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This guide is meant to help everyone, but especially absolute beginners. Communication is not a solved problem, and if it were it would still have more than one answer. Where the guide presents a definitive answer to such open-ended questions, know it does so only for the sake of brevity, clarity, and giving new folks a solid place to start.

Table of Contents

TL;DR

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  1. Don't be boring, be active and interactive
  2. Know who is there, then tell them only what they need to know and why they care
  3. Organize the information to make it easy to learn
  4. Get feedback and use it

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