51 Tools for Transforming Your Training

The authors of this text state that brain-friendly learning is not about techniques and gimmicks, but rather that it's a movement rather than just a method; a movement to recover the real joy of learning that gives both sizzle and substance to every part of your training. The resource offers a blueprint for a new generation of accelerated learning methods. At its heart are five key principles: keep it real; facilitate the flow; honour uniqueness; make it rich and multi-sensory; and state is everything (well almost). There is a clear explanation of the theory behind brain-friendly learning from the inside out; the concepts and learning models you need to underpin your approach, along with a journey through the most complex structure in the universe - your amazing brain. Trainers should discover a concise guide to brain-friendly training design along with tools to pick and adapt to help create new training events or make-over existing ones. The manual has many activities for the trainer or facilitator. Some are designed to help users understand a particular concept in more detail; others are designed to apply the concept to learning events which are being facilitating. The authors show how trainers will have attended or facilitated (some) training sessions that engaged, motivated and provided new insights and new techniques, but that, at the time, trainers may not have been able to define what it was about these events that made them so special. This resource is intended to help trainers understand exactly what the mystery ingredient is and reveal how to use the whole encyclopaedia of techniques that turn training into brain-friendly learning.