Free Tips For Leaders Staff Training All of the the following information may be downloaded as a single document - Staff Training (32k). PC users right-button click, Mac users option-click, then use "Save this Link as..." function. Before Training - Ways to get ready During Training - Making sure they learn and remember. Mid-Program Staff Motivation And Encouragement - How to beat the mid-summer blues. End Of Program Wrap-Up - Finishing on an positive note. Icebreakers - Lots of ways to meet and learn about others. Before Training Page 1 of 5 Winning Ideas For Staff Training So, it's 8:30 Monday morning and you finally got all 30 of your leaders with a donut in one hand and a cup of juice in the other settled down to begin their summer training. There's a lot of information that has to be passed along and you want to make sure they walk away with more than just sticky fingers. Here are some ideas to create interest and improve the effectiveness of your staff training and motivate your staff to want to be there. Promotion of fun and mandatory events This may take extra time but it will be worth it if staff remember and look forward to meetings and trainings. Create a special flyer inviting staff to the "event." It will make them feel special and by marketing specifically to them, they will want to come. The key thing is to have fun and promote true excitement. Do something like this for the not-so-fun mandatory type events. For example, promote a staff picnic with a beach theme with weekly reminder flyers. Use a "Jaws" motif ("this time its personal, personnel!") and have an inflatable shark in a kiddie pool so the employees see it when they come in to work. Leave a resealable bag with sand, shells, plastic fish, watermelon slice eraser, fake ants, beach toys, and a blanket (fringed ticket for event) in the employees mailboxes. Use interesting titles and topics in your training itinerary Staff will be curious and wonder what's up! Use titles of popular songs, movies or TV shows as the title for individual areas to be covered in training. E.g. "Titanic" or "Jaws" for swimming pool rules. "Leave it to Beaver" or "Peewee's Big Adventure" when dealing with kids. You get the picture! Have your schedule in the proper order First thing in the morning, do warm-up activities and action songs. Then move into the dry, cerebral stuff, like official policies and procedures. Have some activity that was started in the morning continue after lunch so they 'need' to come back to complete it. Don't have something long and drawn-out after lunch - keep it active during the sluggish period. Close out the day with a bang! If you have to use a boring speaker, say, a co-worker who rambles, keep their time short and schedule a big activity next to their time slot so that there is no chance for a long-drawn out lecture. Back to Tips For Leaders Next - During Training

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