Whether you are teaching at a university or provide trainings to corporate clients, you are constantly faced with a majority of the audience who are not motivated or engaged to your training. It can be really challenging to make your trainees or students concentrate and really take away something from your training, and this might affect your personal motivation as well. But it is you to be blamed, and thankfully there are some tools and methods that can help you create an engaging atmosphere!

1. Test the newly learnt knowledge!

Training participants feel obliged to pay a bigger attention to your training’s content when they know they will be tested at some point during the program. Provide them with quizzes, presentation tasks and discussions after the sessions to make sure they understand the material and have some inner pressure to pay more attention.

2. Go digital!

Follow the trends and make your materials accessible through various digital devices. This makes the participants be able to prepare for your trainings and get back to the material whenever they are in doubt regarding that certain topic. They can access these materials anywhere they are, anytime they want, and while it is not guaranteed that every participants will use it, going digital definitely makes knowledge distribution easier.

3. Gamify your trainings and arrange competition

Get your participants involved into the training with gamification elements. Make learning a fun experience by adopting some classroom technologies into your programs. We all have this powerful inner drive to be competitive and become the best in what we do, so creating a competitive environment pushes the training participants to try harder and care more about the training itself.

4. Let them find some answers on their own

What fun is that when you ask rhetorical questions and answer them immediately yourself? Give some hints and let the training participants find out the answers themselves by trial and error. If you use some classroom technology you can encourage them to fail and try again, this way the knowledge is more likely to absorb, therefore the training is more likely to be successful.