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Remember What You’ve Learned with special guest Ida Shessel, M.Ed. Have you ever taken an online course or workshop only to realize a month later you’ve forgotten most of what you learned? It’s a growing problem and course creators are wondering what they can do to make their courses more memorable. Learn simple techniques you can use to remember important information. Today’s guest, Ida Shessel, shares with us some of her strategies and tips for making your program one that participants will remember once it’s over. Ida’s been a successful facilitator, speaker and coach for over 30 years. Ida believes anyone who stands up to present a training session, talk, workshop or seminar can get their message across in a way that engages, encourages and empowers the participants in the room. Participants in her sessions have come from government agencies, the non-profit sector, fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses. Ida is the author of several business books including communicate like a top leader: 64 strategies Top leaders use to engage, encourage, and empower Others. In this episode you’ll learn: Why we forget things What you can do to help remember something important 5 elements that make something easy to remember How to make learning stick Download her free report Boosting Learning with Memory Techniques at idashessel.com/free-memory-report Links mentioned in this episode idashessel.com/free-memory-report Join Ida for her FREE 5-day challenge How to Structure Your Presentations and Workshops.  During this fun and easy challenge, beginning Monday May 1, she will guide you through Step 1 of the Rock the Room Road Map. By the end of the challenge, you will have designed the foundation for an awesome presentation or workshop. Sign up here: http://idashessel.com/workshop-challenge-2/ Did you enjoy this podcast? If so please consider writing a review on iTunes and sharing with your network. Contact: Do you have questions about how to teach for impact? Send them to deb@debperetz.com Subscribe to this podcast This podcast, episode 8, first appeared on debperetz.com  

Did you know that poorly constructed slide decks can become an obstacle to learning in your online course? Find out how to create slides that promote both attention and learning with special guest Ellen Finkelstein of Change the World Marketing. Ellen talks about how to make great slide decks for your course lessons and modules. What she has to offer is so valuable you can even use it to make any presentation sing whether it’s a webinar or in person talk. Ellen teaches online entrepreneurs to create a flourishing online business, with an emphasis on Internet technology and marketing strategy. She specializes in working with social entrepreneurs and solopreneurs. Her super power is making the complex simple. With over 15 years online, Ellen has created websites with high search engine rankings and around 300.000 visitors per month, over 22,000 subscribers and many followers on social media. She is also a published author, and wrote several books on making presentations with PowerPoint. She uses her experience to help others create client-attracting websites, grow their lists, create products, and deliver powerful webinars. You can learn more about her at www.ChangetheWorldMarketing.com. In this episode Ellen shares her best tips and systems. You’ll learn: What Death by PowerPoint is and how to avoid it An easy system for using slides to help course participants understand content better and also remember it. Her BARE system for using images effectively in your slides. Links mentioned in this episode www.ChangetheWorldMarketing.com Slideology by Nancy Duarte* https://pixabay.com/en/ http://www.stockunlimited.com* Did you enjoy this podcast? If so please consider writing a review on iTunes and sharing with your network. Contact: Do you have questions about how to teach for impact? Send them to deb@debperetz.com Subscribe to this podcast This podcast, episode 6, first appeared on debperetz.com     *I may earn a small commission if you purchase this product

Good sales and marketing can motivate someone to buy a course or program, but what motivates them to finish it? What motivates them to apply it to their lives? The sad truth is that most people don’t finish the courses they begin, because we live in an age of information overload and decreased attention span. Knowing how to get your clients to finish your program should be a top priority for all entrepreneurs with information products and courses. Episode 6 shows you how to motivate participants to pay attention to your course even when they are bombarded by distractions every moment. You’ll learn: The 2 main types of motivation and when to use them The best ways to motivate people in our new age of digital overwhelm Download your cheat sheet here and get guiding questions to help you figure out your ICA’s motivation for taking your course. Links mentioned: Daniel Pink’s Drive Carol Dweck’s Mindsets Contact: Do you have questions about how to teach for impact? Send them to deb@debperetz.com Subscribe to this podcast This podcast, episode 6, first appeared on debperetz.com

Did you know that you have only 7 seconds to grab your audience’s attention before it wanders off looking for something new and different? We live in a world of information overload and our ability to pay attention has been sorely compromised. Today’s episode will show you how to grab and sustain your clients’ attention during an online course so they stay engaged and go the distance. Because if your clients aren’t completing your course, they won’t get the results you promised them. Listen now to discover: What are the two most effective ways to get and keep attention in a distracted world? What are the 3 aspects of attention and how can you leverage them in your course design? Just how much information overload is there really? Is it all hype or is it reality?

Today’s podcast is all about one of the most important secrets to learning that is rarely talked about in education. This one learning strategy can single-handedly lead your clients to the transformation your course promises them. We often think that good teaching is all about how much new knowledge we get participants to take in. But the real trick to learning is getting the content out. Dr. Pooja Agarwal, a cognitive scientist, calls it retrieval practice. And it’s all about getting students to recall material or practice what they know. It’s not about taking notes or even studying. It’s about being forced to remember. Retrieval practice actually improves your memory as well. It’s win-win, right? But it’s so much more than that. Retrieval practice improves students’ complex thinking skills, and their organization of knowledge. Most importantly, though, retrieval practice improves students’ transfer of knowledge to new concepts. That’s usually a big failure for most courses. The client finishes the course but doesn’t apply it to her life or business. By improving knowledge transfer, we make it much more likely that a client will use it in new situations in his life. Some important things to remember about retrieval practice Use retrieval practice frequently in your courses. Give specific action items that require participants to recall material. Don’t forget to include content presented earlier to help keep it fresh in their memory. Let participants know It’s OK if they forget. By committing to do the retrieval practice, they’ll relearn it. To learn more listen to the podcast. Free Download: 7 Ways to Use Retrieval Practice In Your Course   Links mentioned https://quizlet.com/ https://www.polleverywhere.com/ https://debperetz.com/5 Contact: Do you have questions about how to teach for impact? Send them to deb@debperetz.com Subscribe to this podcast This podcast, episode 5, first appeared on debperetz.com

The Single Most Important Ingredient to a Successful Online Course Have you ever wondered why so many people don’t finish an online program they registered for? There are a lot of reasons people don’t finish. Some have to do with a family emergency, others relate to circumstances at work. Those are things that you, the course designer, have no control over. But there are lots of things you do have control over in your own course. Today I’m going to speak about the single most important ingredient to a successful online course. Without this, it’s unlikely clients will complete your course.   Listen to discover Why we aren’t so great at thinking to begin with What it is that makes us lose interest in a course faster than anything else What to consider when designing your course to make sure that all participants want to finish it   Links mentioned in this episode Teach for Impact Episode 3 Free giveaway contest of course creation tools including a Blue Yeti mic   Contact: Do you have questions about how to teach for impact? Send them to deb@debperetz.com   Subscribe to this podcast   This podcast, episode 4, first appeared on debperetz.com

What’s the biggest challenge in developing an online program? For many it’s simply knowing where to begin. What do you do first? Then what? How do you know what you’re doing will actually work? Today’s episode of Teach for Impact has you covered. I’ll talk about the most common approach to creating a course and then explain why it may not be the best way to go about it. Then I’ll share with you the single most powerful approach to course design and show you how to use it to make sure you create a course that gets results for your clients.   Listen now to discover How backward design is anything but backward The key questions to keep asking yourself throughout the design process How to ensure that your course content gets your clients to the promised transformation   Links mentioned http://effortlessmanifestation.com http://debperetz.com/giveaway   Do you have questions about how to teach for impact? Send them to deb@debperetz.com   Subscribe to this podcast   This podcast, episode 3, first appeared on debperetz.com

Episode 2: Designing Courses So Everyone Succeeds This episode talks about something that is extremely important but no one wants to talk about: Making your course accessible to all types of thinkers. We don’t all think and learn the same way. We have different strengths, weaknesses and preferences. In fact, a good portion of your potential audience probably includes people with learning disabilities. Don’t limit the success of your participants by catering only to a few types of thinkers. Listen now to learn: Why most courses leave a lot of people behind 3 Common mistakes in online courses 3 step formula for making your course universally accessible Links & resources mentioned: Marie Forleo’s B-School Amy Porterfield   Do you have questions about how to teach for impact? Send them to deb@debperetz.com   Subscribe to this podcast   This podcast, episode 2, first appeared on debperetz.com