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Coaching for Leaders

135: How to Get the Most Out of Training, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2014

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.

Question from Jordan
I am a young manager (mid-20’s). My job requires training large amounts of staff on software and technology. Many of the staff are twice my age, and tend to ignore me when giving trainings. I’m, not sure if this is because of my age, or because I have only been with the organization for 5 years, and many of  them have been here for 20+. Or perhaps it is because of the subject matter of the trainings? Do you have any suggestions on how to get through to them?

2nd Question from Jordan
Do you have any suggestions on conferences one can go to, to expand skills on leadership and coaching?

  • Bonni says a conference is a place to build a network, generate new ideas, and learn about new products
  • Dale Carnegie Training provides a great resource for changing behavior, which is a great way to get better and leadership and coaching

Question from Kris
I am a manager in a large company and managing a global transformation programme. I am at a cross roads and my development plan includes getting more training on the following: (a) Leadership of global teams (physical and virtual) and (b) Strategic planning and organizational development (how does one define and develop a global organization, roles, numbers of people, strategy, governance, teams, processes, etc) to
implement a global transformation programme. Do you have recommendations on books, education or coaches for my further development?

Question from Suzie
Audio comment

Question from Andres
In a world of free online courses and MOOCS (Massive Open Online Course); what type of course would you be willing to pay for? What type of content/delivery would definitely be worth spending your (not your employer’s) money on?

Question from Elmer
How do you make training accessible to the newest employee while bringing something to the table for the most experienced manager? I usually try to leave the conversation open for the subject matter experts in the room to share their knowledge (within reason and on topic) so there is a feeling of collaboration and not speaking down to them in those situations. Creating a course that is comprehensive is difficult.

  • Dave suggests segmenting the training, if possible.
  • How can you get the subject matter experts engaged in a leadership capacity in the classroom?
  • Use a problem-based or case study approach. This engages the more knowledgable people in the room.

2nd Question from Elmer
One of our bosses/stake holders wants us to make our classes archiveable or semi-future proofed so we do not have to constantly go back and re-teach the classes one on one. What are some of the best ways to do that?

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0:00.0

On today's show how to get the most out of training all question and answer.

0:06.0

This is coaching for leaders episode 135.

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Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential

0:15.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

0:21.0

This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.

0:26.3

This is a weekly coaching show to help us all be better leaders through improve communication, human relations, and personal productivity.

0:36.8

And one way to get better at all of those is to engage and get involved with training and that's why we thought that tackling the

0:46.5

topic of training and getting questions from the community would be of real

0:52.0

value to not only as folks sending in the

0:54.7

questions but just about everybody listening and I have asked someone here who is

0:58.8

my favorite training mentor expert in the world and that is the very knowledgeable

1:06.4

incredibly insightful Bonnie Stahoviac hello hello and I would like listeners to know quick

1:11.9

that I have so far on our new treadmill desk

1:15.8

walked over 20,000 steps today. That's 9.06 miles for those who don't have your

1:21.6

steps to miles conversion going in your head and I feel like I could take on the world.

1:26.0

One of these days we are going to do a show on the importance of moving around and energy level because that's like a huge thing. of

1:35.0

importance, and energy level because that's like a huge thing of productivity.

1:37.0

It's crazy, isn't it?

1:38.0

Speaking of taking on the world, we have a question from Jordan,

1:41.0

so we should dive right in.

1:42.0

We do, we have so many questions, we're going to try our best to get through all these questions here in this episode. So the first question is from Jordan. Jordan says I'm a young manager in my mid-20s. My job requires training large amounts of staff on software

1:56.8

and technology. Many of the staff are twice my age and tend to ignore me when giving

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