Technology tools
By Justin Collinge (July 2009 Issue)
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Have you noticed how tired you can feel after a training session? And have you noticed how much worse that can be if the session involves technology?
It doesn’t have to be that way. At Kaizen, we’re a little obsessed by the notion of emotional state and believe that, to a large degree, your state determines what you will get out of a workshop. When designing a training session, one of the first questions we like to ask is: “How do I want people to feel as they walk out the door at the end of this workshop?” Considerations about state come way before considerations about content since, if you get the former wrong, it doesn’t really matter about the latter!
It doesn’t have to be that way. At Kaizen, we’re a little obsessed by the notion of emotional state and believe that, to a large degree, your state determines what you will get out of a workshop. When designing a training session, one of the first questions we like to ask is: “How do I want people to feel as they walk out the door at the end of this workshop?” Considerations about state come way before considerations about content since, if you get the former wrong, it doesn’t really matter about the latter!
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