How to Motivate Adults Learners

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The urge in individual to have a need fulfill

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1. Create a Need 2. Develop a Sense of Personal Responsibility 3. Create and Maintain Interest4. Structure Experience to Apply Content to Life5. Give Recognition, Encouragement and Approval6. Foster wholesome competition 7. Get Excited Yourself8. Establish Long-range Objectives9. See the value of Internal Motives10. Intensify Interpersonal Relationship11. Give Them a Choice

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“What’s in it for me? “

(WII-FM)

Discuss with the trainee :

1. Why do they need this

information?

2. How will you benefit from it?

3. How can they make use of it in a

practical, real way?

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People do things for their People do things for their reasons, not yours or the reasons, not yours or the organization’s.organization’s.

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Each individual is

responsible for the learning

and.. Trainer must create ……………..

Give participant an

opportunity to indicate their

1. Expectation

2. Outcome they expect, and

3. What are they willing to do to

achieve those results. 6

Ways to create and

maintain interest are :

Trainer need to mix and

match a variety of

techniques in order to grab

participant’s attention.

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Most common questions from the

participant during training :

“How will this work for me?”

“Will this help me make better

decisions,

solve more problems….?”

Participants must be able to see how

theory can be put into practice.

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Ways of giving recognition, encouragement & approval are :

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Wholesome competition enables people to

measure themselves with themselves.

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Trainer show interest and enthusiasm How ?

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Help pp realize how they can benefit –in the

long run- as they increase their level of

confident in the areas

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Recognize and encourages participant

personal motives.

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Give pp in the class the opportunity to meet and

socialize with one another, and also make

yourself available for them.

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Give participant a choice so that they feel that

they are in control.

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