Leading the Learning Environment Posted By : Vince Stevenson(public speaking)

As a participant, coming into a room where the trainer is wearing jeans and a T shirt, there is going be very different expectations to entering a room where a trainer is wearing a business suit. Clearly, arriving at a training session with a suit and tie and finding everyone else informally dressed, requires no more than taking off the tie and jacket and everything is fine. On the other hand, I was aware of colleagues whose natural communication style was already fairly strong and authoritarian and so it helped them sometimes to dress down a little to remove some of their sharp edges. So the key to pitching your training at the right level is to establish what sort of environment you need to establish to help your participants learn best. And then decide what you need to focus on, based on your own natural style and attributes, your appearance and attitude, to bring that environment into being.

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