In this Episode of Safeti School, we chat about some of the common pitfalls that we fall into with your health and safety training delivery. Don't make the same mistakes that we did!
We’ve teamed up with Alex Burbidge from Pro Safety Management for a few episodes to share our views on a range of topics. We hope you get bucket loads of value from these short podcasts.
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Welcome to Safeti School. Where we break down health safety and environment learning into simple bite-sized snippets that you can use for your business or your career. Helping you improve your knowledge boost your performance and maybe even providing some inspiration.
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RICHARD Let's look at how we can avoid the pitfalls when we're delivering training Alex.
We're going to talk through you are sort of favourite little points that we reckon people can think about. Through experiences of her own and areas where we've maybe had a mishap in the past ourselves. Do you want to kick us off?
ALEX Yeah for me. It's always about your own nerves and you know you overthinking what you're delivering and sometimes the information that you're presenting is just got to be told. It's got to be delivered but it's just your style and personality.
I think people want to see rather than just trying to be either too corporate and too kind of like into the business buzzwords. Just be yourself, deliver something that you know,you would be happy to sit through yourself.
That's the test.
I think.
RICHARD That's the acid test to make sure to keep your audience engaged.
It's a real pertinent point to try and be as natural as possible and I guess we chatted with this in the past that once you start overthinking everything that you're saying then automatically it becomes unnatural and then that in itself is damaging to your engagement.
Something that I'd been thrown in this initially was just to make sure that you have a defined outcome. It goes back to what we're discussing about planning training. To make sure that whatever goals and objectives that you want the learner to achieve are clearly laid out so that whatever direction you're training goes in that you can always bring it back to that objective and make sure that whatever content your delivering or whatever dis
