This document provides guidance on designing effective learning programs and sessions. It discusses understanding the audience and venue, incorporating different learning domains and styles, and using techniques like the cone of learning, storytelling, and the law of 3 tells. The key techniques emphasized are: 1) Considering factors like the audience's demographics, knowledge, and the venue details when planning a session. 2) Incorporating cognitive, affective, and behavioral learning through a blend of activities like lectures, discussions, and roleplays. 3) Catering to different learning styles such as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic through videos, lectures, and hands-on activities. 4) Using principles of storytelling to engage

1. Create winning learning
programs
Design Winning learning sessions
Prince Kumar Mishra

2. Agenda
• Homework
• How adults learn
• Cone of learning
• Storytelling
• The law of 3 Tells

3. Know your audience
• Age range
• Gender ratio
• Current knowledge level
• Organisational hierarchy
• Nationality, country of origin etc

4. Know the venue
• Room acoustics
• Seating
• Lighting
• Temperature control
• Outside noise
• Other possible distractions
When selecting the best way to hold your audience’s attention, also consider:
• Time of day
• Concurrent events/activities
• Practicality of breaks for lengthy presentations

5. The Magic of learning

6. Learning domains
• Most adults, adolescents, and children learn best by experiencing a blend of activities that
promote the three learning domains: cognitive, affective, and behavioral.
Cognitive Affective Behavioural
Lectures Value classification exercise Role plays
Brainstorms Nominal group process Simulations
Discussions Consensus-seeking activities Teach backs

7. Learning Styles
• Instructor’s facial expressions
and body language.
• Tend to sit at the front of the
classroom to avoid visual
distractions.
• Tend to think in pictures and
learn best from visual displays.
• Tend to take detailed notes to
absorb information
Visual Auditory Kinesthetic
Videos Lectures Role plays
Flip charts Group discussions Simulations
Readings Stories Teach backs
Demos Conversations Activities
• Learn best through lectures,
discussions, and brainstorming.
• Interpret the underlying
meaning of speech by listening
to voice tone, pitch, and speed
and other speech nuances.
• Written information has little
meaning to them until they hear
it.
• Learn best through a hands-on approach
and actively exploring the physical world
around them.
• Difficulty sitting still for long periods of
time,
• Easily become distracted by their need
for activity and exploration.

8. Cone of learning

10. Self
awareness
Experience
Why? In charge
Need
based
Task
oriented

11. Storytelling
“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.”
– Ira Glass

12. Principles of Storytelling

13. Do you remember this?

14. Stories speak to people’s emotions: the emotional side of the brain and hence gathers
higher response

15. Build common ground/shared desires get your audience nod in agreement
Stories are truth well told. How you say is as important as what you say
Don’t tell the obvious, enable the discovery of the obvious

16. Build and use the power of contrast. Stories evoke the world of contrast. When you
are telling something new, you are building a new world, paint a picture of that world
and add contrast with today’s world

17. Character  Conflict  Resolution

18. Start here
• Imagine a world where…..

19. Story telling
• Shared desires
• Suspending reality
• Shows conflict and resolution
• Dramatizes the content
• Combines hearing, seeing and imagining

20. The law of 3 ‘Tells’
1. Tell participants what you plan to tell them
(explain subject material and learning objectives)
2. Tell them
3. Tell them what you told them (review learning
objectives, activities, etc.)

21. HAPPY LEARNING