Creating the right mood/id

14. Menciptakan suasana yang tepat saat pelatihan

Tentukan keadaannya

• Tentukan keadaan dalam pelatihan dengan cara Anda sendiri.
  • Sadari kondisi Anda sendiri
  • Kondisi pelatih berpengaruh besar terhadap pembelajar
  • Pelatih harus tampak bersemangat dan antusias, positif, serta terlihat sudah siap
  • Pelatih harus cukup istirahat dan siaga

Bangun kedekatan

• Sambut peserta
• Pastikan mereka tahu Anda memperhatikan mereka, bahwa Anda peduli dan berempati, serta betul-betul ingin membagikan hal yang bermanfaat
• Bersahabat dan mudah ditemui.
• Segar.
• Tulus.
• Atasi masalah atau hal-hal praktis yang dapat berdampak terhadap pelatihan
• Beri tahukan jika ada kesamaan dan kecocokan dengan para peserta
• Ingat-ingat dan gunakan nama orang secepatnya. Manfaatkan label nama atau permainan untuk membantu mengingat.

Tekankan dan ulangi mengenai manfaat pelatihan

• Orang memerlukan alasan untuk belajar - relevansi dan maksud sangatlah penting
• Sampaikan garis besar hal-hal yang akan dipelajari para peserta dan mengapa hal tersebut akan berguna bagi mereka

Keep up the energy

• Sessions should be short and punchy
• Regular breaks are important – toilets, moving, time for reflection, drinking
• Use of energisers
• Using variety
• Participative approaches

Put people at ease

• Understand the reasons why some people may fear/dread training
• How to avoid these negative feelings getting out of hand – telling people in advance about activities and what they will and won’t have to do.
• Explain the reason for any activities, purpose
• Get feedback frequently.

Use good humour

• Be relaxed and be faithful to your own sense of fun and good humour
• Relate humour to the training topic or the point you want to make
• Use funny anecdotes to illustrate a point
• Keep it simple and clear
• Develop the capacity to laugh at yourself. Don’t take yourself too seriously.
• Keep the humour relatively disciplined so that you don’t get off track or waste time
• When things go wrong, or you make a mistake – show that you are relaxed enough to laugh about it, and laugh at the situation.
• Remember that you don’t have to be original – you can ‘borrow jokes’ from well-known comedians or sources of funny material.

There are a few simple pieces of advice about what NOT to do with humour

• DON’T announce that you are going to tell a joke, let it come as a surprise
• DON’T practice too much, it should come naturally
• DON’T insult or hurt anyone or their religion, gender, political beliefs etc
• DON’T drag it out or muffle the punch line.