A close observation of most employee training sessions, you will see employees chatting with their phones or whispering among themselves, some may even wear a sleepy look. And if you ask these employees about the knowledge they have acquired from the training exercise, you are most probably to get a shocking blank look. Thus, in order to enhance the effectiveness of your employee training, utilize these simple but engaging training techniques that make professional training pleasurable.

Begin with the Basics

To achieve an effective employee training, and at the same time, make the training fun for the entire employees, always ensure to begin from the basics and develop upward. Therefore, create a training handbook that features finger puppet of the writer with some fun pages. A frequent reference should make to the handbook in the course of the training session. Many companies would be able to train their employees more effectively and attract quality employees due to the above engaging training techniques as well as the pleasurable atmosphere of their training.

Role Practicing

If you want your employees to give less attention to their smartphones during training sessions and pay maximum attention to the training, you need to include a lot of interactive actions in the training. Role practicing is an effective means to get the employees out of their chairs during training and engaged them actively. This practice reinforces concepts very well. For instance, when lecturing customer service teams how to handle difficult customers, set up a series of actions for them to practice so that their colleagues can give immediate feedback to the teams’ performance or practice. By doing that, every single employee in the training would participate actively in the training.

Video and Music

Generally, the impact of music should never be undermined, because there are some kinds of songs that you will compel you to tap your feet to the rhythms, whenever you hear such music you can recognize the power music has to make your training presentations pleasurable and lively. Thus, introduce music into your training for transitions, or during breaks to assist your audiences to remain active. Video can as well be included in your training presentations to help your audiences stay positive especially when played alongside a boring slide presentation. However, always ensure to make the videos as brief and attention catching as possible, to yield excellent effect.