How To Make Sure You Reach Everyone, Everytime – Guaranteed!

Can you think of a time when you were conducing a training session or making a presentation and you looked out at your audience and you realized you weren’t reaching everyone; but you knew if you had a different set of strategies for your teaching and presenting you could reach everyone? OR . . .

Can you remember a time when you were sitting in a training, 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 would get it?

This site is about a mentoring, coaching and training system based on “multiple intelligences” – a.k.a. The 8 Kinds of Smart. When you apply this system to any mentoring, coaching and training you provide you’ll reach everyone, everytime – guaranteed.

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10 Modern Mentor Myths Exposed!

Because of the current “mentor myths” we’ve bought into, the small business and home business mentoring, coaching, and training profession is in trouble! Many of the training challenges we’re facing in our industry are very similar to those facing our schools and the training and development departments of most large corporations.

Let me attempt to put a face on what I’m talking about with the phrase “mentor myths”. In the work from home industry people spend many hours every week participating various kinds of trainings including: live conference calls, one-on-one training with their mentor or coach, attending live training workshops and seminars, listening to the latest “success CDs”, and studying manuals, special reports, or home study courses which they have ordered.

Unfortunately, a great number of these have, consciously or unconsciously, bought into the mentor myths I’m discussing here.

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“Multi-Modal Teaching & Learning –
The Why’s & How To’s

Have you ever felt that you were a really good learner but not necessarily in the way learning took place when you were in school? Did school sometimes make you feel stupid? Many of us feel this way, and because of this, many of us also feel that we must not be very smart.

In formal education you basically learned to learn in two or three ways—the famous “reading, writing, and ’rithmetic” that are at the heart of most of the learning we did in school.

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How To Get Learning To “Transfer” & “Stick”

I had a teacher when I was in high school who maintained that we had really learned something only when we could transfer that learning to other parts of the school curriculum and to other situations beyond the formal school setting.

As a training professional, I feel there is some real merit in her assertion. In fact, I often evaluate the success of a training I’m conducting based on how much transfer happens. Any mentoring, coaching, or training we provide we need to listen very carefully to observe participants making or trying to make applications of what we are teaching. This will help us more accurately access their grasp of the concepts or information we have been sharing.

Helping participants transfer what they are learning to life beyond the training to life beyond the training room involves several tasks.

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Turbo-Charge Your Training With “Multiple Intelligences!” (a video presentation)

The research is in on how people learn best and it goes against the grain of most of the conventional wisdom! The conventional wisdom espouses such things as:

• The more times information is repeated the more we’ll remember it.
• We all basically learn the same way.
• The most effective ways to communicate information are by lecturing and written material.
• If someone can regurgitate information accurately they’ve learned it.
• Adult learners can be expected to understand the content you’re teaching.

However contemporary research has documented a very different scenario on how we learn best. It’s got to be “multi-modal”. So what is multi-modal learning?

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