Product reviews for The Trainer's Toolkit

Mike Palmer, Managing Director Professional Training Solutions UK
The first thing that struck me when first opened the trainers toolkit is that it's layout and presentation is so well thought out. It immediately becomes an inviting publication where a busy trainer looking for ideas and fun interesting input can easily find what they need with ease.

Kimberley and Larry have ensured that accelerated learning methods follow the principles of making it practical and relevant to everyone who may use it. The background information of brain friendly learning is explained in an informative and interesting way without getting too heavy.

The toolkit is superb for well laid out exercises and activities that will assist every learning event to have a profound sense of fun and thought provoking activities.

The well laid out publication helps further by presenting itself in three parts. Each dedicated to the principles of brain-friendly learning, brain-friendly design and the Tools for brain-friendly learning. All are informative and a pleasure to read.

I particularly felt that after reading this excellent publication that I was able to better understand brain-friendly learning and effectively incorporate it into any learning session, knowing that everyone involved would enjoy and benefit from the activities.

In particular I found the items on principles and design quite superb. Kimberley and Larry really hit the mark for me in their statement ” Keep it real"ensure there is a clear link to the business. The importance of this could not be over emphasised for me having dealt with so many professional organisations over the last 20 years.

Although mind mapping and energizing sessions are not new to me it's always interesting to continually develop new ideas to keep event fresh and lively. An invaluable tool for the trainer and facilitator.

A fascinating point is looking at sessions such as “Keep the ball in the learners court” where it is refreshing to look at traditional learning compared to brain-friendly learning.

The Trainer's Toolkit offers a fresh approach for introducing new activities into new and existing presentations and learning events. Each session could be used in a wide range of events in management development, quality and efficiency, personal development and creative thinking. In fact the toolkit offers something for everyone and would make an invaluable addition to any professional trainers collection.

I read with great fascination the subjects on two mode processing exploring Explicit and implicit learning and also the inspiring and engaging of all the intelligences where the writers effectively explain the areas of linguistic, bodily and interpersonal intelligences among five others.

The Trainer's Toolkit also provides a wealth of ideas, activities and thought provoking sessions for introducing tools for making learning rich and multisesnsory.

The writers have provided some extremely interesting reading on unconscious learning. Their examples of embedded commands are so well presented that it really made me stop and re evaluate the strength of how we learn without always realising it. The superb opportunity this provided to me was to be able to introduce more embed learning statements into written material and comments in learning activities.



Overall The Trainer's Toolkit offers a wealth of thought provoking and well-designed activities and sessions that everyone will find interesting and useful. Anyone involved in professional training will gain superb ideas and examples to continually improve their existing skills and presentation styles. It is a well laid out publication that is user friendly and informative. This is a must for all who look to develop new ideas into their training and development events.
Guest | 14/09/2004 01:00
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