What\u2019s the best training experience you\u2019ve been in? \u00a0Take a moment to put yourself through the retrospectoscope and consider what made it memorable for you.<\/p>\n
Maybe it was a Scrum training. \u00a0Or a ski lesson. \u00a0Or perhaps a first aid class. \u00a0I\u2019m willing to bet that whatever type of training it was, you\u2019re not fondly recalling sitting in a beige room being talked at or PowerPointed to death. \u00a0What I remember vividly from a\u00a0long-ago Scrum training is not the words of wisdom falling from the instructor\u2019s lips, but rather the games, exercises, and conversations with other participants that illustrated\u00a0and reinforced the ideas being presented.<\/p>\n
In Training from the Back of the Room, Sharon Bowman has distilled and shared a powerful framework for designing and delivering training experiences to adults that will help make learning stick. \u00a0The Training from the Back of the Room approach is grounded in 6 simple principles (Sharon calls them the Six Trumps) derived from what we know about how the brain actually works to receive and retain information:<\/p>\n
None of these principles are revolutionary \u2013 yet we often fail to apply them when designing training experiences because they don\u2019t align to what we\u2019ve experienced in the past as a model of \u201chow adult learning is done\u201d.<\/p>\n