Multiple Learning Styles eCourse–A Guide For Home Business
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| Can you think of times when you were conducing a mentoring, coaching, or training session, whether on the phone or in a live workshop setting, and you suddenly realized that you weren’t connecting with your participants? You weren’t reaching everyone? They just weren’t “getting it”? It may have been tone of their voices, the look on their faces, a lack of response to questions you ask, or the discovery they’re “multi-tasking” while you’re delivering your valuable information. |  |
Or maybe you can you remember a time when you were on the other side, sitting in a training session, a class, or someone else’s presentation and you weren’t “getting it” because of how it was being presented; but you realized that if the information was taught in another way, you very likely would “get it”?
The Multiple Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences System
You are about to learn a training system based on Multiple Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences – the Eight Kinds of Smart.When you present your information using “multimodal” teaching-learning strategies, I guarantee that you’ll reach everyone, everytime AND you’ll get actual transfer of the learning from the mentoring, coaching, or training situation to how they operate their home business.
Participants will remember the information you’ve taught or presented for the rest of their lives. They’ll understand it a deep levels of their being. And, they know how to integrate it into their lives.
If you think this sounds too good to be true, let give you a brief personal example.
Case Study 1: BEFORE Teaching WITH Multiple Intelligences
| Over 20 years ago, before I launched my own company, I worked for a large training company in the Chicago area. I was the director of marketing and sales as well as a full time consultant. Part of my responsibility was to conduct training for the employees topics which would have company-wide benefit. Since most of them had frequent contact with our customers it was deemed important for them to receive customer service training. I was assigned this task. So I put together a training session which covered such topics as active listening, assessing customers’ dominate information-processing modalities, understanding the “social skills” needed when communicating with other people, and knowing how to effectively discern a customer’s needs and address their concerns, questions, or problems. Invariably, after my fine training session, I would hear people on the phone doing the exact opposite of what I had just spent several hours training them to do. I was obviously distressed (as was my boss!) that for some reason the training didn’t stick. |
So, what went wrong?
 | 1. My first response was to blame the participants for not paying attention; but, when I was honest, I realized I had their full attention while I was talking. In fact many of them even took notes! 2. My next response was to blame the schedule. Company trainings usually occurred right after lunch, and everyone knows that people can’t focus on a full stomach! |
It then hit me like ton of bricks. Even though I had done a good job of presenting the information, I had only presented it in one or two ways at best. I had made the fatal mistake that I’m always telling others to avoid in workshops I conduct and in presentations I make!
I failed to address their multiple learning styles and their multiple intelligences. I had, by my actions, assumed that everyone learns the same way.
Case Study 2: AFTER Teaching WITH Multiple Intelligences
| Needless to say, the next time I conducted a company-wide training it was genuinely “multi-modal”. In other words, I used a wide variety of teaching and learning strategies to get the concepts across that I was assigned to teach In fact, I made sure that I included teaching and learning strategies which addressed multiple learning styles – strategies from The 8 Kinds of Smart. The results were quite different. Not only did people thoroughly enjoy the training session, but weeks later they were still talking about it and they were practicing the concepts I had taught on-the-job. The training had indeed transferred from the training room to the workplace. |
What can account for this success?
They didn’t just learn the information in their head, they learned it throughout their entire brain, mind, body system. When you learn in this way you don’t forget. You deeply understand the information. And you remember it.
The COMPLIMENTARY eCourse at the bottom of this page, “A Different Kind of Mentoring, Coaching, and Training” will teach you this system.
"Multi-Modal Learning" – The Key to Teaching for Multiple Learning Styles
Contemporary brain research has discovered several very interesting and powerful things about multiple learning styles and how people learn best:
The more different ways a person learns something, the more they really learn it. The more different ways a person learns something, the more they genuinely understanding it.
The more different ways a person learns something, the more they will remember it.
The more different ways a person learns something, the more it becomes part of their being (as opposed to information they read about in a handout).
In 1985 the noted Harvard psychologist and educator Howard Gardner, proposed the theory of multiple intelligences based on several years of research investigating how we come to know what we know about our world.
How do we learn, process, and understand information? What is the process by which we acquire knowledge? In a nutshell, “What makes us smart? What makes us intelligent?” In this research, Gardner discovered that each of us possesses at least eight distinct areas of intelligence, eight ways we acquire knowledge, process information, learn and understand.
If you’ve not seen my video introduction to “Multiple Intelligences” and “Mulitple Learning Styles” CLICK HERE. It’s at the bottom of the page.
"A Different Kind Of Mentoring,
Coaching, & Training"
You'll get a profile of your own 8 Kinds of Smart and learn what you can do to strengthen those areas that need some help! You'll get an in-depth definition of each intelligences so you'll know what to look for in others, AND how you can help them in their learning and understanding!
You'll learn more than 50 specific "SmartStrategies" you can use any time you are in the role of mentoring, coaching, or training others. These strategies will totally change how you approach others!
You'll how helping the people you mentor, coach, or train fully activate and develop their eight intelligences AND how this translates into business success!
You'll discover how to help your team, business partners, or customers learn anything, more quickly AND save yourself valuable training time - you won't have to teach, re-teach, and re-re-teach the information!
You'll suddenly increase your effectiveness as a communicator by learning how to quickly access the dominate intelligence in others!
You'll learn different "memory strategies" for the different intelligences to help you and your team remember important information you have learned and/or taught!
You'll gain an invaluable understanding how other people think and process information you're sharing AND why it's sometimes difficult to communicate with them!
only to send you information you to help you build your business.
When you submit the form above, you'll immediately receive your first installment of the eCourse AND a link to the audio recording.
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