The 4 + 3 Elements that All Trainings Must Cover

Whether you're training senior management, working level or kids, all training programs must cover the following 4 + 3 elements to be effective:

1. The Importance of the topic: why we must know and do (the topic)
2. The Strategies and Tactics of executing the topic (steps, procedures and guidelines)
3. What to do if we cannot achieve what we want (on the topic)
4. The Ultimate in the topic: what is higher than the highest level (of the topic)?

The Other 3 Things to cover are beyond the topic, but nevertheless must be included if we want to have a well-rounded learning:

1. The key challenges facing the audience now (and how knowing the topic will alleviate that)
2. The successes of the audience so far (to validate their efforts and encourage them to do more)
3. A story that touches the audience's hearts so as to leave with them a lasting impression.  Even if they forget about the topic and its details, the story will leave a mark in their memory, thereby helping them to remember the topic.

Using a Leadership training as an example, if I'm training middle managers, the 4 + 3 Elements will look like:

1. Importance of Leadership for Managers and Why You Must Be Good in It or Face Extinction
2. Five Leadership Strategies (Buy-in, Team conversion, Work Quantity, Work Quality and Value Add).  Also 7 Leadership Tactics (Messages, Meetings, Lunch time, Work Review, Work Discussion and the Pantry)
3. What happens when your leadership is challenged by your subordinate?
4. The Ultimate in Leadership for Managers: Make a Difference and how

The 3 Soft Elements could be:

1. Top 3 challenges of managers and how leadership can help to resolve all of them
2. How managers have led well in the past and what to learn from them
3. Story of how a Highly Stressed Manager becomes Highly Successful by applying leadership strategies

By Andy Ng, the next Psychological Leadership course is on 10 July 2014 Thursday 9 am to 5 pm. For details on the 4-weeks Better Manager program, click here.  List of courses at here. Related articles:

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