This episode is part three in our Trainer Roles series.

Everybody who leads learning sessions - whether a business leader, a subject matter expert, or someone in a formal L&D role - has multiple roles that they must fill. Over the coming weeks, we are going to highlight each of these roles and provide actionable tips to deliver when in each role.

So far we have discussed how to be a good host, and how to make training real and relevant. This week we will discuss how to be engaging.

Most training is boring and does not give people a reason to want to learn.

On this episode we discuss 4 ways that you can make your training sessions more engaging so people learn more, participate more, and come back to you asking for more training.

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Matt Dicks is a man of many talents.

56 time Moth StorySLAM Champion and 9 time grand champion, Matt is an expert on storytelling. He even wrote a book on it, called Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling.

Matt is also the internationally bestselling author of a number of fiction and nonfiction titles, which have been translated into 25 languages worldwide.

In addition, Matt has authored a rock opera, several musicals, and comic books. He is a columnist for multiple magazines and has been published in many more.

In his day job, Matt has been an elementary school teacher for more than 25 years. He also works as a marketing and storytelling consultant, a speaking coach, a blogger, a wedding DJ, a minister, and is the Lord of Sealand. Matt works with many business organizations and has taught at a variety of higher education establishments.

Somehow, Matt has managed to do all this, while also raising two children with his wife Elysha - who he runs a podcast with - called Speak Up Storytelling. (He has a second podcast too).

How does Matt manage so many activities and remain so productive in his life? He has developed a system of simple and actionable ways to manage time and propel his creativity. His new book - Someday is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life - shares these techniques.

On this episode, Matt and I discuss:

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This episode is part two in our Trainer Roles series.

Everybody who leads learning sessions - whether a business leader, a subject matter expert, or someone in a formal L&D role - has multiple roles that they must fill. Over the coming weeks, we are going to highlight each of these roles and provide actionable tips to deliver when in each role.

Last week we discussed how you can be a good host for those that you conduct learning sessions for. This week we will discuss how to make the training you deliver real and relevant.

Far too many training sessions are plagued with hypotheticals, unrealistic information, and just do not prepare people to do the things that they need to do.

On this episode we discuss 4 ways that you can make your training sessions more real and relevant so that people perform better afterwards.

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We'd love to hear from you about what you are liking, and what you want to hear more of. Connect and engage on socials or send us a message through the website.

On this episode, I am happy to welcome to the show Matt Bibby.

Matt has worked in L&D and instructional design for more than two decades. During this time, he has experienced a lot of change in how businesses support their people, delivered thousands of trainings at countless companies, and has developed a unique view of what the role of training should be. This interview has the potential to ruffle some feathers in some L&D circles as we discuss:

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This episode features Apex Mind's first two-guest interview!

We are pleased to welcome to the show Dr. Kuva Jacobs and Charles Masuku. Dr. Jacobs has worked for years provided evidence-based instructional design in a variety of industries and verticals. Charles has leveraged his extensive sales and marketing background to deliver performance impacting learning solutions.

They have recently partnered together to found Emergent Learning - a learning consulting firm that combines Dr. Jacobs' background in evidence-based learning design and Charles' experience with creating performance impact.

On this episode we discuss:

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Many people who work in support roles, like training or enablement, struggle with influencing senior leaders. It is easy to feel imposter syndrome that leads to being an order taker, a content factory, and not being able to implement the solutions that you know will drive results.

In this episode, I share the blueprint for a process that has worked for me to influence business leaders to accept quality training and performance support solutions, has prevented my teams from just taking orders, and has lead to better performing projects.

Article:

https://hbr.org/2002/05/change-the-way-you-persuade

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Pat Michaels is the Director of Business Development at Great Circle Learning. Pat works with instructional designers, instructional writers, subject matter experts, and training industry professionals to make it faster and easier to design, develop, and maintain professional facilitator guides, participant guides, speaker notes, audience handouts, and more.

On this episode, Pat and I discuss:

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While working with her husband, who is a pilot, Linda Reynolds identified a pattern that most training in the aviation industry was boring, was not interactive, and had opportunities for improvement. To address these gaps, Linda developed a Solomon's Facilitative Model to develop other training professionals in the aviation industry to train adults well.

On this episode we discuss:

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Joshua Remerowski is a strategic thinker with a knack for creating new ways of working through strategic planning, training, talent development, technology, and execution. He is a self-described learning and development nerd whose works have led to awards from Brandon Hall Group, Association of Talent Development, and Training Magazine.

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