let me touch it: don’t demo your training
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Let Me Touch It: Don’t Demo Your TrainingWhy a demo is not training just as porn is not sex
Viqui DillTechComm Leader at American Woodmark
Senior STC MemberSTC New England InterChange
STC Summit 2015
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Icebreaker
• What is this? How does it taste?
https://instagram.com/viqui_dill/
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Icebreaker• This is my
trainer, Andrea Poe. If I watch her work out, how many calories does that burn?
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Expectations for today
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Watching is not doing
• Most of us learn by doing
– We don't want to just watch somebody else do something
– We want to try it out for ourselves
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Death by PowerPoint?
• Why a slow death-by-PowerPoint? – Easier on trainer
– Faster
– Portable
– Structure
• PowerPoint Karaoke – Karaoke is FUN!
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Worth the effort
• Rethink our own training programs so students get to
– Touch
– See
– Hear
https://www.brainscape.com/blog/2011/08/your-learning-style/
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The point is mastery
• Which of these matters ?
– Color
– Graphics
– Flow
– Engagement
– Stickiness
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Good relationships
In person• Trust
• History
• Support
• Lasting
Online • Trust • History • Support • Lasting
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It’s about building a relationship
• Our software is sexy
– Make the bed
– Hook up with the one you love
– Hook up with a stranger
– Dim the lights
– Plan a happy ending
– Send flowers
• Make a backup plan
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Our software is sexy
• Users want to touch it and explore it
• Our training should be sexy too
– allowing students to explore and experience the application
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Our software is sexy
• Users want to touch it and explore it
• Our training should be sexy too
– allowing students to explore and experience the application
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Make the bed
• Make the bed: – Plan ahead so that any new hardware is ready
before training starts • Cabling
• Wireless
– Arrange a test environment so that students don’t have to worry about mistakes impacting the business• User IDs and passwords
• Test data
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Make the bed
• Make the bed: – Plan ahead so that any new hardware is ready
before training starts • Cabling
• Wireless
– Arrange a test environment so that students don’t have to worry about mistakes impacting the business• User IDs and passwords
• Test data
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Hook up with the one you love
• Students with laptops or mobile devices should bring them
– Have them running during the training
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Our software is sexy
• Users want to touch it and explore it
• Our training should be sexy too
– allowing students to explore and experience the application
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Hook up with a stranger
• Students without laptops could use a loaner during the training
– Plan ahead so that these will be ready
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Our software is sexy
• Users want to touch it and explore it
• Our training should be sexy too
– allowing students to explore and experience the application
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Dim the lights
• Give students a chance to explore
– Without much direction
– Have the experience of being self-guided
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Plan a happy ending
• Give the students an assignment to complete in class
– Have the experience of performing an actual task with success
– Send flowers
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Plan a happy ending
• Give the students an assignment to complete in class
– Have the experience of performing an actual task with success
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Plan a happy ending
• Give the students an assignment to complete in class
– Have the experience of performing an actual task with success
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Make a backup plan
• If you absolutely can't get real computers and mobile devices into the training
– Consider giving a handout with lots of space for notes and responses to questions
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Support can be beautiful
• You may have to sweet talk your tech support and you may have to tweak your training schedule but it will be worth it.
• With a little planning, your next training section can have students walking away from class remembering the material and confident about being able to use the system.
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Stories?
• Concur training
– What’s my password?
– Where’s the app?
• Kronos training
– Connection speed = satisfaction
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Questions?
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