Self Employed Success

Designing Effective Workshops & Teleclasses begins September 23.

A good workshop design allows:

• students to learn with ease
• teachers to speak with skill, comfort and centeredness
• both to build a trusting business relationship which can continue long after the class ends

For many years, I was the International Director of Education for a software company and creating new educational class was what my team did, day in and day out. I have studied the structure, process, and psychology of good adult educational design and am happy to share my knowledge with you and to help you create an outstanding class for your own students!

What You Will Learn:

In this 4-week teleclass, you will learn:

• the psychology of how adults learn
• how to design a structured, multidimensional workshop or teleclass
• how to construct lessons and lesson plans for optimum student learning
• the art of creating powerful exercises
• how to discover the needs of your students
• how to make your lessons interactive so adults won’t be bored
• how to conduct post-class evaluations to give you valuable feedback
• the easy way to convert lessons and exercises from a live class format to a teleclass format (and vice versa)

Come with your ideas and questions, and walk away with a class design of your own, ready to teach!

This 4-week teleclass series begins September 23.

Click here for more information and registration details:

http://www.passionforbusinesslearning.com/dewt/

I have ebooks and audios sitting on my hard drive that I’ve never consumed. I bet you do, too.

Free information is everywhere, and even if it’s excellent, it’s not always easy to digest it and create a strategy around it.

I think the next place of growth for service professionals and information marketers is to take all the free information you research and produce for your clients, synthesize it, and give it back to people in a practical, DO-able format.

Want to be unique? If you can get people to consume your information products, TEACH people how to consume it and use it, it will set you apart from the crowd.  The reason people spend money on my teleclasses and live training classes is that:

1.  They get to ask questions
2.  They’re given bite-sized homework assignments
3.  They can submit the homework to me for review/comments
4. They walk away with a do-able action plan

Even offering a free teleclass sets you apart from the crowd in your industry, because it allows people to receive a chunk of information, learn how to apply it, and ask questions to clarify points. If you’re not offering free teleclasses, now is a good time to start.

Information is everywhere. But smart people are now saying, “Make it work for me in the real world of busy schedules and conflicting priorities. Help me focus.”

If you want to be unique and stand out from the crowd, start helping your customers consume, digest and USE the information you’re giving them.

If you can simplify a complicated topic, if you can save your customers the time of having to do the research and analysis themselves, if you can cut through the noise and help your customers know what’s relevant and important, then you’ll always be valuable to them.

In this episode, Mark asks, “I want to hold my first teleseminar. What technology do I need, what teleconference line should I use, how do I accept payments online, etc.?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEhKncDOOw

Learn to teach teleclasses like a pro!

Teleseminars are a great way to teach! But how can you teach well, when people can’t see you?

Course Overview

In this teleseminar, you will learn techniques that boost your teaching skills in a teleclass environment, overcoming the visual barriers and creating interactive and supportive environments for your students. Create telephone-based learning environments that keep students coming back for more!

What You Will Learn

In this four-week teleseminar, you will learn about:

• Handling the first few minutes of your teleseminar, the springboard to any successful teleseminar
• Teleseminar leading skills for interactivity and learning
• Creating rapport with students over the phone
• The common mistakes the teleclass leaders make
• Techniques for keeping momentum while also allowing for student discussion
• Dealing with student situations that can undermine your teleclass success
• Handling the technology of using a teleconference line

What Students Say…

Teleseminar Leader Training with Karyn enabled me to bring a new cohesiveness to my teleclasses. Following the first class, I immediately wrote up an information sheet on how to participate in teleclasses for my future class participants. Her ideas on how to use my voice, better operate the technology involved and handle difficult participants were especially valuable.

The wealth of resource information Karyn provided both before and after classes completed every area she discussed during the three weeks. Finally, her model of professionalism in her presentations and on her website come from a place of integrity and obviously years of excellent business practices.

Elsie Kerns
Founding Member, Wellness Workers

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Opening and growing my coaching practice has meant stepping out of my comfort zone and trying something new almost daily. Karyn’s Teleseminar Leader Training class presented this key aspect of growing my business in a step-by-step, friendly and supportive way.

Through this class I know what to do, how to do it, where to go for the technical aspects and how to confidently handle potentially tough situations. I have found the articles and references Karyn so generously provided to be of value above and beyond my complete satisfaction with the class content itself.
 

Lisa Jordan
The Right Fit Coaching

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This class was the frosting on the cake for me. I have been learning as I go in teaching teleseminars. This filled in the holes of my knowledge. I am sure my students will appreciate my improved teleseminar leading skills.

Jennifer Grainger
Spiritual Growth Community

Length of Workshop

This teleclass meets one hour each week, for four weeks.

• April 13
• April 20
• April 27
• May 4

All teleclasses are 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM eastern

Format

This workshop is offered via live teleseminar format with an instructor.

Teleseminars are live workshops that are given over the telephone where you can interact with the instructor and the other students. Teleseminars are a great way to learn, because you can learn from the convenience of your home or office.

The live teleseminar sessions will be recorded, so if you miss a session, you will be able to download the audio recording of the class and listen to it at your leisure. Class recordings are generally made available within 24 hours of the class date. For instance, if a class is held on a Tuesday, the recording will be available for downloading on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning.

About the Instructor

Karyn Greenstreet is a small business coach and self-employment expert. She has been creating and teaching classes for adults since 1981, and has taught over 250,000 students in business and personal development topics.

Karyn is the owner of Passion For Business and runs a small business school for self-employed people.

Registration Fee (in U.S. Dollars)

$169 for the four-week class

>>>Click here to register.

When designing and delivering training classes, there’s only one question to ask: What is best for the students?

In a student-centric model of training design and delivery, a good instructor knows that it’s not about what I want to teach, but about what the student wants to learn.

There are many ways to deliver training material, but the two most important ones are the Lecture Method and the Workshop Method.

You’ve seen and participated in the Lecture Method thousands of times: the teacher gets up in front of the group and delivers the material, while the students listen and take notes. Occasionally the students ask questions. This works great when there is a lot of new, introductory material to be delivered and the students have no experience with the topic.

In the Workshop Method, a collaborative learning environment is established. The teacher uses hands-on exercises, Q&A, and discussions to help the student cement what they’re learning in a real-world environment and begin to apply it immediately. This method is ideal for adult students who bring a wealth of background experiences to a class, and helps them stay motivated.

Is one method better than the other? No. But the Lecture Method has the risk of being much more boring! An all-lecture class can easily put your students to sleep, especially if you’re teaching via teleclasses where they can’t see you.

Some teachers choose the Lecture Method because it allows them to be the “sage on the stage” instead of the “guide on the side.” Smart teachers choose the lecture method, wisely, when there is a great amount of foundational information the students are required to learn. Really smart teachers use both methods: the Lecture Method for the basics, then switching to the Workshop Method to allow students to process the material in a real-world atmosphere and apply what they’ve learned.

Here’s an example of how I use these two methods in one of the classes I teach:

In my Marketing Planning class there is a lot of foundational information to learn about the psychology of marketing and creating a marketing strategy for your business. These lessons are generally taught using the Lecture Method, but I throw in some discussion questions and allow a fairly large chunk of time for Q&A. When we move into the lessons about writing your own marketing plan, we switch to the Workshop Method.

Here’s how I apply the Workshop Method in class:

• I ask students about their specific situation and how they’ll apply what they’ve learned in class to their own business marketing
• I give them homework assignments which they can submit to me for review and comments, which keeps the learning going between class sessions
• Students write their marketing plan in a step-by-step format using a workbook I’ve designed for the class
• I ask questions related to the material where students fill in the blanks from their own life experiences (You’d be surprised how much you know about marketing just by having been a consumer all these years!)
• I ask students to debate the pros and cons of choosing specific marketing techniques

Getting your students active in their learning process keeps the energy high, keeps them motivated, and most importantly, keeps them learning at a peak rate.

And while you’re at it, consider this: When giving speeches, what if you combined the Lecture Method with the Workshop Method? Professional speakers can spice up their speeches by moving away from the model of I Talk To You and You Listen, too.