MAKING IT QUICK AND EASY FOR YOU TO LEARN & PRACTICE
And what you need to remember is that when you’re watching a video, say, a minute or a minute it and a half. That for me is a lot more time in terms of planning, creation, editing, and so on. And that’s why online learning is so time intensive for the creator. Sure.
We don’t have that headache of meetings, but it is a time factor that I need to factor in. On top of that, the individual feedback is really easy for you to read, but for me, I need to think very carefully about the wording. I want it to be crystal clear because this is a synchronous learning you. So I need to make it really easy for you to understand. So I take great care to edit it properly so it’s easy to process. I make sure that I try to give an example and so on and these little things they all add up in time too. When we first start working together, I deliberately focus on one thing at a time. And I intentionally give you kind and constructive feedback on that one thing for motivation. Or reasons. It’s a pedagogical decision.
I WILL CHALLENGE YOU TO MAKE PROGRESS WITH HUMOUR
As your fluency increases and we get to know each other, let you get away with less because we’ll have covered the bases by now. And you’ll notice my sense of humor leaping into the feedback because cheeky feedback is more memorable. I create a safe space for you to try things out. You encouraging you to use the audio and video functions more and more, and that’s when fluency takes off. You’ll have mistakes weeks that you have been repeating for years ever since school.
OLD MISTAKES
So these can be a little stubborn to eradicate. But I find that with videos, visuals, and audio, I can really kind of zone in on more than one of your senses at once. So you’re not only listening and seeing, but you’re also kind of getting a real feel for the language and that I find tends to work really well. But of course, it’s not enough just to tell you where you’re going wrong. I need to really give you an opportunity to practice what you’ve just learned from me.
So we use a lot of repetition, but it’s relevant to how you would use that word or sentence or question. I try to make it really make sense for you by putting it into dial blogs using it in an audio, then putting it into a video, then getting you to write about it. It’s this real kind of playful ness around the language that helps you to fix it in your brain if you like. Interest thingly, these are often basic mistakes that are fairly easy to fix. But because they have been ingrained in your brain the wrong way, it takes time. A great reason to use humor to my advantage.
MOTIVATION TO STAY ON TRACK
The magic happens when creative learning content is delivered and evaluated with genuine motivation. I am a bundle of energy and indeed enthusiasm. So this is the part that I find really easy as a coach and trainer.
And this makes for a much more enjoyable learning journey. My WhatsApp boosts are certainly not predictable or dull. I do everything I can to keep my participants engaged and motivated with a range of activities and learning styles.
It doesn’t look the same.
It doesn’t sound the same.
It’s always a little bit different.
SURPRISE FACTOR
So it’s this range your challenges that keeps my experts on track. Even when they are tight for time or don’t have the head space, I’ll lure you back in with something quick and easy that is too interesting, too relevant, too cool to ignore. This videos. Help me a lot with that.
But really, it just depends who you are, what you’re interested in. I’ll know how to pick you up.
LET’S NERD OUT ON YOUR ZONE OF GENIUS
Now having boosted software developers, engineers, lawyers, politicians, and scientists, what I hear time and time again is that it’s fun and nothing like school. I think this is due to the fact that this is not a standardized system. So if one of you is coming up for a job interview, a performance review, or a pay negotiation, I’ll zone in on that.
QUICK SIMPLE ACCESS TO THE SUPPORT YOU NEED AT WORK
I need to know my participants to be able to maintain that level of support. And, you know, to be honest, these VIPs for me are indeed very important people, and they get my attention within minutes or hours (even when I’m on holiday). Industry specific language learning activities, articles and other challenges are what helped to maintain the level of commitment that drives performance and fluency. Now nearly everything I do is based around conversation because I think it’s really important that you’re not just learning the words and the grammar like the mechanics of the language, but you’re able to kind of run with the language straight out of the gate. So the idea is that you can use what you’re learning immediately in your career.
INTEROGATION REQUIRED
I ask lots of questions at the start so that I can create materials about topics that are interesting and relevant to you. That’s what makes it easy. It’s not the level that is easy. To the contrary, what we’re talking about might actually be quite complex, quite diplomatic, quite sensitive. So that’s not the easy part.
It’s the accessibility. It’s the fact that it’s enjoyable to do. It’s the fact that it’s interesting for you that it’s relevant. That’s what’s making it easy. Asynchronous learning means that we can both be focusing on the program at different times.