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Table 10-1. Tips for Motivating Learners

1. Listen!
2. Project optimism.
3. Communicate session objectives.
4. Be empathetic to needs.
5. Set a positive training environment.

6. Challenge.
7. Encourage involvement and creativity.
8. Promote questioning.

9. Recognize achievements and contributions.
10. Use incentives and rewards.
11. Show concern.
12. Review and reinforce regularly.
13. Build in camaraderie and teamwork.

14. Tie in learning to the real world.
15. Make learning FUN!

Like the national economy, human motivation is a topic that
people know is important, continually discuss, and would like to
predict.
—Raymond J. Wlodkowski

Table 10-1 offers some ideas on how to develop a learning environment that can
encourage learner motivation. These basic concepts of trainer behavior can drive the
intrinsic values of learners that you read about earlier.

PUTTING YOUR BRAIN TO WORK: ACTIVITY

What value do you think external motivators can bring to training?

What other types of rewards or incentives have you used or seen used in training sessions?