Thank you for all of your responses!

Hiya
Best of luck in your new role. You may want to have a look at my website - www.abctrainingsolutions.biz . In the Free Trainer Resources section (go to bottom of home page and follow the links) there are a number of resources you may find useful. In particular, the 'Business Quotations' in the MISC section (invaluable for thought provoking comments at the bottom of delegate manual pages) and the 'Administration and Training Management' section.
Hope that helps
Happy Days!
Bryan

Train,

It is always good to have a couple of fire starters in your hip pocket. Ad hoc exercises to get the conversation or information flowing, to break the ice, to establish trust among the trainees.

Also- you should maintain a healthy comfort for pregnant pauses and silence. That steely-eyed stare-down between the participants and yourself when you ask for responses or input is good. Try not to finish their thoughts or sentences, or answer for them too quickly. It is okay to make them wiggle uncomfortably. Don't make it too easy for them.

Have some way-out experiences/exercises that will differentiate one lesson plan or subject matter from the next.

IMO, depending on what the training is about, the more you can make them remember the experience, the more return you will get from your training efforts.

Use your imagination to develop all this stuff.

sf,
Boom