How Might We Prepare Participants to Learn

My guest is Mark Williams, Mark is the founder of GiraffePad, the learning platform designed to make it easy to transform any learning intervention into a full and impactful learning journey.

Mark has worked in L&D for over 20 years, the last 18 running his own training and coaching consultancy and is driven by a passion for learning that sticks. This is why he has spent the last 3 years developing GiraffePad to be the solution he wished he had for the previous 20.

We discuss the move from seeing learning as a discreet activity to seeing it as a journey. Mark shares thoughts and ideas on how to help get participants buzzing when they arrive at your session

Creating an environment where they are excited and ready to learn. How to maximise the impact of the time you have to create the most powerful outcomes.

One of the simplest, and powerful tips from Mark is to think about reimaging the concept of pre-work. By simply renaming it as module 1, and making it part of the learning programme will boost the chances of your participants turning up ready to learn.

• 01:26 COVID has created opportunities to help prepare people to learn
• 03:23 Stepping up their game in preparing people for the virtual event
• 04:09 Get the prep right, get the facilitation right, they are entwined
• 06:05 The analogy of learning and riding a bike
• 07:13 Learning and cognitive load
• 08:11 Started with a warm-up session
• 10:26 The value of building community is priceless
• 11:51 Mark shares a nugget about framing pre-work
• 13:16 Using pre-session to build psychological safety
• 14:57 We can widen our view of learning and come up with ideas to connect people in advance
• 17:33 Module 1, joining the dots
• 19:02 Would you turn up for a triathlon without training and doing some preparation
• 20:05 Getting the biggest bang for your buck
• 23:07 How would you like your session to start
• 24:58 Who is actually going on the programme
• 26:35 Using good metrics
• 29:20 Key stakeholders in learning
• 31:27 Everyone is responsible for learning, not just L&D
• 37:01 The quality of what has come before provides an expectation of what it will be like
• 41:59 We are not paying for the training, we are paying for the performance
• 43:41 Have we run out of spot analogies
• 44:12 Concussion and preparation
• 45:26 The different skills in L&D
• 46:06 Induction ideas

 

Mark’s website: https://www.giraffepad.com/

 

Follow mark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwilliamsgiraffepad

 

Scott’s website: https://www.theinnovatecrowd.com/

 

If you have ideas, thoughts, insights or a story that can help change the perception of learning I would love to hear from me. Email me at scott@theinnovate crowd to discuss being a future guest