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Encouragement and Feedback - Use Visual Aids To Communicate
Visual aids are literally visual inputs to enhance, and retain, learning, the
brain being much more likely to retain information when it is accompanied by
visual, audio, audio, olfactory or other sensory supporting-data. A whiff of home cooking or a rainbow in
a fountain can evoke memories of home, maybe a hemi- sphere away! Salesmen and grocers use this knowledge all the
time, insisting that you feel the material or
sniff the mango! Basically the same techniques are used in boardroom and
classroom presentations. Some tips to keep in
mind for this:
They vary in complexity, but keep it simple! Get
two or three fundamentals across clearly, rather than explain the whole
thing and have no one remember anything.
Practice smooth integration of oral and visual
data.
Flip charts: use for brainstorming, building-up graphs,
budget statements, etc., and write BIG!
White boards are widely used but use water-based pens so that
writing will rub off!
Overhead projectors, many palm-top compatible, can be very
effective. Use bold cartoons, line images and graphics.
Slides/ readymade training films: they have a cost-benefit
angle, but are really good.
More
people buy a car for the way the interior smells or the clarity of the music
system, other things being equal (which they never are!) in a world increasingly
filled with clones…a penalty for living in an age of mass-production. The aim of development
is to customize our human resources, to encourage development through
exposure to newer trends, using appropriate technology to shape our resources
they way they want to be…. successful…to both the organization as well as to
themselves!
QUESTIONS:
1. What inputs can optimize learning? How
would you like to attempt a presentation, and what support systems would you
prefer, if at all? Why?
2. How would you tailor training
methodology to the peculiar needs of your team?
What, in the final diagnosis, is the need for development of your staff?
