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Quick tips to improve your training meetings

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, April 16, 2004

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As a staff educator, do you need to increase the productivity of your training meetings? Before your next meeting with management, consider this statement: All training meetings should be enjoyable. Several methods exist for testing the effectiveness of staff training. Why not apply these strategies to your meetings? Here are a few suggestions to evaluate your colleagues and improve the efficiency of your meetings. 

Method 1. Ask the participants for their reactions. This strategy demonstrates your focus on learners and your desire for feedback. In return, their comments could help you make constructive changes to your meetings.  

Method 2. After meetings, make time to contemplate how you could have made the meeting more productive.
Method 3. Invite a coworker to observe a meeting and take notes. An outside perspective, whether positive or negative, is another technique for better meetings.

Try using one or all of these approaches to produce effective meeting results and ultimately, enhance your training.

Editor's note: The above tips are from author and consultant Donald L. Kirkpatrick, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He also runs Kirkpatrick Consulting Services.

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