The Trainer's Edge

How to make friends with the paperwork. What it really means, and learning to enjoy it

The "$13million Comma"

Working with (and within) the regulations: why get a second and third opinion? 

Using learning theories without hurting your brain (unless you want to)

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Trainer’s Edge, about turning the dry stuff

Powerfully contextualising elements to make them meaningful at the individual level.

Using the whiteboard and when you don’t have to.

And the horrors of PPt.

You’re sure to come across students who need a bit of coaching. How do you do that? Here are some techniques that are simple and you don’t need to know their private thoughts to help them. The story of how Ali turned into a prince!

So you’re all rapported up with the students. But sometimes there are students who can be difficult, disruptive, or aggressive. Or just restless. How do you handle that? And what about when the whole class is confused? The simple pacing trick that works a treat.

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression." But that’s not the whole truth. Graham talks about the importance of how you make an entrance, how creating real value at the start of Day One can colour the whole program. And much more …

Graham drills into the Trainer’s brain to reveal the ideal trainer's mindset and discovers that it’s not what you thought. About students, training as work rather than a job, building rapport, the value of life experience, training adults. And more …

The Trainer’s Edge Podcast is coming soon. It’s called “The Trainer’s Edge” because training takes skills. The Trainer’s Edge will help you put a sharp edge on those skills, to expand, extend, and enhance them and make you a great trainer.