Question Coach

S3E8 — Being an Expert Does NOT Mean You're a Good Trainer


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Have you ever attended a training delivered by someone brilliant at their job — and left the room having learned almost nothing?

You're not alone. And there's a name for what happened: the Expert Trap.


In this episode, executive coach Audrey Jeanrond reveals why expertise and teaching are fundamentally different skills — and gives you a practical toolkit to close the gap.


What you'll learn:

→ The 3 Expert Traps: too abstract, too fast, too much detail

→ The mindset shift from information delivery to capability building

→ Cognitive Load Theory (John Sweller) and Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle applied to training design

→ A 6-step design framework: Audience, Outcomes, Sequence, Activities, Practice, Feedback

→ 6 activity formats that actually teach: Replication, Debugging, Case Challenge, Teach Back, Constraint Challenge, Individual Reflection

→ The Activity Architecture: Task → Constraints → Output → Feedback

→ How to handle resistance, disengagement, and dominant participants

→ The "One-Minute Explanation": a self-diagnostic every expert trainer should try


The question that should guide every training decision: "Can my participants do something different tomorrow morning?"


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Published with passion by Audrey Jeanrond, www.bebest-coaching.com



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