This week’s topic comes from a listener who was curious about how to engage reluctant team members and participants in trainings. Do you lead trainings? If so, listen and learn two strategies to help you get participants engaged, interested, and learning more during your trainings.

What You’ll Learn

* Two ways to ensure participants stay engaged during your trainings

* The 5 attitudes that participants have during trainings

Resources

* Download the Free 5 Ways of Being Cheat Sheet

* Workshop: Make it Experiential

The Weekly Challenge

This week, think about which of the 5 Ways of Being do you participants exhibit. Think about how you can apply the two strategies to help your team members and participants be more engaged. Share in the comment section.

Transcript

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Transcript for Episode #027: How to Engage Reluctant Participants

Amy Climer: Hello everyone. Welcome to The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode #27. In today’s episode I’m talking about how to engage the reluctant participant in trainings you might be delivering. I’m going to explain two ways that you can get people more engaged and more involved. This question about how do you engage a reluctant participant actually comes from a listener. They were curious about how to get team members more engaged both within my team and within a training. So today we‘re just going to talk about the trainings and I’ll give you two different techniques that you can use. I also want to tell you that there is a free  giveaway related to technique #1 and you can download that at climerconsulting.com/027. It’s just a one page cheat sheet and I will explain more about that in a minute, but you can download that. Also when you download it you will get added to my newsletter. Actually, I just sent out an article this last month that I got a lot of positive feedback on about parenting of all things, which I’m not a parent, but shared one specific tool to help your kids be more creative. I’ll do an episode about that in the future, but for now feel free to download that giveaway, that free cheat sheet that I’ll talk about in a minute. You’ll get added to my newsletter, which I send out maybe every month or two. It’s not super frequent.

Two ways to engage your reluctant participant:

Name it.

Deliver an amazing training that is relevant for the audience.

#1 Name It

Let’s talk about #1. What do I mean by “name it?” One of the things that I do if I feel like there might be a few people in the audience who don’t want to be there, but they are there because they have to be there. You know they are required because of their job or for some reason they have to show up. I feel that they are probably going to feel a little checked out or just not interested, then I would introduce something called The Five Ways of Being. This is actually a model that I got from a friend of mine.  His name is Steve Crosby and we used  to work together at University of Wisconsin and now he’s out in Colorado. He introduced this to me probably 12 or 15 years ago.