Setting Learning Objectives
Hi my name is Callan Rush and I’m here with another Workshop Wealth Tip.
This tip is all about LEARNING OBJECTIVES.
And Learning Objectives are really jargon that I am offering to you. It’s taken from my 2nd university degree which was in education, I was a teacher of course.
I had a specialty in designing curriculum in such a way that it would increase the ability of the student to take the information and actually use it in a practical way in their life.
So the secret to doing that, the secret to designing curriculum in that way is to be very clear on your learning objectives.
When you’re designing your workshops, retreats or seminars… the first thing you want to do is ask yourself: what is the number one overall learning objective I want my students to achieve at my workshop?
For example, it could be that by the end of my workshop students will be able to name the 5 elements of a successful workshop business… that’s an example of an overall Learning Objective.
Once you have chosen your single most important Learning Objective, the next piece is to take a look at each segment of your curriculum and to choose 2 or 3 Learning Objectives per segment.
For example, let’s say your first segment lasts from 9 o’clock to 11 o’clock. Let’s say it’s about 3 hours… As you are designing that segment you want to be crystal clear on what the 2 or 3 objectives are.
What are the 2 or 3 things you want your students to be, do or have by the end of that segment?
When you’re crystal clear on what the Learning Objectives are, it allows you to design and deliver the curriculum that is perfectly in alignment with that intention.
The other really cool thing about setting your Learning Objectives in advance is that later on is that you can actually go back and test to see if you actually delivered whatever it is you wanted to deliver on.
So for example, let’s say my intention was that students would be able to name the 5 elements of a successful workshop business. Well, at the end I could actually go back and ask my students “what are the 5 elements?” and they are either going to be able to tell me or not tell me.
If they can’t tell me I need to go back and work on my curriculum because I didn’t teach it very well.
So that’s your Workshop Wealth Tip for this week. If you have any questions at all about designing curriculum or about Learning Objectives, how to phrase them, how to choose them… go ahead and look below the video and you’ll see there is a place for you to ask those questions and to make your comments. I’ll be sure to read them and get back to you just as soon as I can.
Until next time, be brilliant!
Callan Rush xo
Warm Up Your Voice!
Hi my name is Callan Rush and I’m here with another Workshop Wealth Tip (singing).
So why am I singing? You should sing every time single time before you go to a speaking event or before you are about to lead a workshop. No matter what the length, you need to warm up your voice!
Your voice is your instrument, it is the main thing that is going to allow you to make an impact in the world as well as to earn a living. So if you don’t take care of your voice you are not going to be in business very long.
Now… one of the things I do before I come to speak is I’ll sing in the car. So I’ll put in my favorite CD and turn on my IPod and I’ll sing some of my favorite tunes to get my voice warmed up before I get on stage.
And here’s another really cool sub tip… There’s a way for you to find your perfect pitch because when you do start to speak you want to be in the vocal range that is easiest for you.
So one of the ways to do this is to start to hum… And you’ll notice that is the best place for you to speak from. It’s going to be the easiest for me and the easiest for my audience to listen to as well.
So that’s your Workshop Wealth Tip for this week. On your way to your venue or speaking engagement, sing! Have fun with it…warm up your voice and you’ll be in business for a lot longer.
You’ll notice right below this video there is a place for you to leave comments or questions. If you have any questions at all about vocal techniques or things that I do to save my voice and enhance the sound of my voice go ahead and leave your question there and I’ll be sure to get back to you just as soon as I can.
Until next time be brilliant!
Callan Rush xo
Bio Breaks Are Vital
Hi my name is Callan Rush and I’m here with another Workshop Wealth Tip.
This tip is all about what I call a BIO BREAK.
A Bio Break is really just a break you insert into your time line or curriculum for your workshop that allows people to get out, go to the bathroom, brush their teeth, get some fresh air… whatever it is.
It’s an opportunity for them to take a break from the learning, to re-group to take care of themselves and to be able to come back and be more present.
So, my rule of thumb for this particular idea is that you never want to plan a learning segment that is longer than 2 1/2 hours.
2 1/2 hours is about the extent to which a human being can sit, learn and not have to get up and go to the bathroom and take care of themselves.
That’s the maximum and you can shorten it up a bit depending on who your audience is. So that’s your Workshop Wealth Tip for this week.
If you have any questions at all about planning your workshop, or how long breaks should be or when they should fall or setting the context for any of it… please go ahead and look below the video and you’ll see there is a place to leave comments or questions. I’ll respond just as soon as I can.
Until next time be brilliant!
Callan Rush xo
Account for Lost Minutes
Hi my name is Callan Rush and I’m here with another Workshop Wealth Tip.
This tip is all about what I call TRANSITION TIME.
Whenever you’re planning for a workshop or a retreat or seminar, you’re going to want to create a time line, also known as a logistics master that will be documenting what is happening when, when the breaks are, how long the learning segments are.. All those kinds of things.
One of the biggest mistake I see when people are actually designing their programming and creating their time lines is that they forget to account for what I call Transition Time.
So Transition Time is simply the little minutes here and there that are lost when people are finding their seats, putting their bags away, making sure their coffee lid is on tight, putting it under their chair…
All the little things that have to happen for people to actually settle and be ready and present so they can start to learn again.
So make sure when you are planning your breaks and mapping out your time line for your workshops that you’re including Transition Time and that will keep you from being over time. Which nobody likes either.
That’s your Workshop Wealth Tip for this week. If you have any questions about how I design my logistics master or the techniques I use to create my time lines, go ahead and look below this video. You’ll see there is a place to leave comments or questions… so go ahead and do that and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
Until next time be brilliant!
Callan Rush xo
Resistance is a Good Thing!
Hi my name is Callan Rush and I’m here with another Workshop Wealth Tip.
This tip is all about resistance. You’ll always have some people at your workshops who are resistant at some level to what you’re offering.
Maybe it’ll be as obvious as someone heckling you. That has happened to me, it’s kind of unnerving!
Maybe it’ll be as subtle as someone looking sideways and crossing their arms in the front row… they’re making you work for it.
Resistance comes in all sorts of styles and can manifest in all sorts of behaviors, but what you need to remember as the workshop facilitator is that resistance is not necessarily a bad thing.
And here’s why: often times resistance is just a sign that your information is starting to push up against some beliefs systems or some survival mechanisms that person has held on dearly to.
So you’re actually challenging a way of thinking, or feeling or believing that has been with them for many, many, many years…
So again it’s natural that they are going to go: wait a minute, this has worked for me for so long and now you’re asking me to let go of something that has kept me safe?
Be compassionate when people are resistant. Explore it, ask them more about it, give space for their resistance as opposed to being resistant to their resistance.
What I’ve also found in my over a decade of doing this and many many thousands of people is that often times if you are patient, if you are compassionate, if you are curious and you really open up the communication about what that resistance is about, your number one most resistant person in your audience will become your number one fan!
That’s my tip for this week. You’ll notice below this video there is a place for you to leave comments and questions so if you have any questions about how to handle a heckler or how to deal with resistance or what kinds of questions could be appropriate to ask to explore and open those channels. Go ahead and put them down there.
Until next time be brilliant!
Callan Rush xo
Room Cost is Always Negotiable!
This Workshop Wealth Tip is all about how much you’re paying for your event room or paying for your venue.
So remember that in most cases and most situations, the price of the venue or the price of the event room is always negotiable.
For example: for some of our workshops we hold them in a room that is about 1200-1500 Square Feet. The price of that particular room ranges anywhere from $400-$500 per day.
However, when I first approach the sales manager (and it never fails!) to book that event space they always quote me a price that’s like $800-$1000 per day.
And then with a bit of negotiation and a bit of give and take I’m always able to get that venue price down to $400 or $500 per day instead of $1000 per day.
Here’s a really great technique I use. One of the things that I use as leverage to get that price down is to talk about how many of my students are going to actually be staying at their facility and eating in their restaurant and paying for their hotel room.
So let’s say I have an event where 100 people are coming and I know at least 50% of those people are coming from out of town will be staying right at the venue where the event is happening.
I will make sure I tell the sales manager all of that and then we’ll negotiate about me booking a block of rooms that I have to guarantee will be full.
So let’s say I say “I want 20 rooms put aside for my people. If I guarantee that 20 of your hotel rooms will be full all weekend the weekend the event is happening… what’s that going to do to my event room price?”
And always it’s going to drive that price down.
So that’s an example of how you can open up communication and get your event price down.
If you have any questions at all about booking venues, how much you should be paying, what configuration of a room is good, how many square feet… anything at all go ahead and look below the video.
And you’ll see there is a place to leave comments and questions so go ahead and leave them below and I’ll be sure to get back to you as soon as I can.
Until next time be brilliant!
Callan Rush xo
How to Speak to The Entire Room
My name is Callan Rush and I’m here with another Workshop Wealth Tip.
The tip today is all about speaking to the corners of your event room. A lot of people, when they get on stage, their energy only goes to the 1st or 2nd row forward.
So one of the tricks I’ve learned is to make sure you are actually speaking to the ENTIRE ROOM to the people that are in the very very far corners, even to your staff that’s at the very back of the room.
If you’re only projecting into the 1st or 2nd row with your energy and intention then what happens is you’re going to start losing people in the back of the room.
They’ll start checking out emotionally, psychologically, and some of them will even check out physically by getting up and leaving your seminar… and you don’t want that!
So remember you want to speak to the entire room. Another thing you’ll hear in public speaking seminars and courses sometimes is that you want to kind of speak above peoples heads.
I don’t recommend that!
What you want to do instead is make sure you are connecting… that you are looking in the eyes of people in the front row, of people in the second row, and the third row and again all the way to the back of the room!
Don’t speak above their heads, actually look at people, look at their eyes and make sure you are getting to as many people as possible.
It may seem kind of funny to do that but when you are really connecting with one person and you change your gaze and connect with someone else and then change your gaze and connect with someone else…
What happens is the whole room becomes enrolled. The conversation becomes a lot more intimate.
That’s my Workshop Wealth Tip for today. If you have any questions or comments about anything I’ve said on the video today, you’ll see there is a place below this video that you can ask those questions and I will respond as soon as I can.
Until next time be brilliant!
Callan Rush xo
Never EVER Do This On Stage!
Hello my name is Callan Rush and I’m here with another Workshop Wealth Tip.
This tip is all about UNCONSCIOUS GESTURES.
What you need to remember is that when you get on stage and you’re in front of a group of people… all of your gestures on stage are going to look ten times bigger!
It’s like all of a sudden you become amplified and every movement becomes a lot more obvious.
So you need to be crystal clear and consciously aware of how you’re moving your hands. Are they supporting what you are saying or are they distracting people?
Here’s an example:
A lot of people will use scripts on stage and of course their fingers might be dry so they will go to turn the page and they will lick their finger and turn the page…
From the audience’s perspective – because everything is amplified – instead of a little finger lick and turn of the page it’s going to look way more amplified and really gross.
So… Don’t do it!
The bottom line is you really want to be conscious of how you’re moving your body. Be aware of every single gesticulation, especially anything with your hands.
And I hate to take a page from politicians but they actually have some good coaching and they do some really cool things…
You’ll notice a politician will never point his finger right at you. What they do instead is cap their thumb and use it to indicate forward.
My preference if I do need to “point my finger” is to put my index finger to my thumb with both hands and do that instead. So you can try both ways.
But again, the bottom line is: you want to be aware of how you are moving your body. Are your movements distracting the audience and grossing them out?
Or are your movements actually augmenting what you are saying and increasing the comprehension of the information you are trying to put out there?
So that’s your Workshop Wealth Tip for this week.
You’ll notice right below this video there is a place for you to leave comments or questions so if you have any questions about body language, about who I study with, about anything I recommend, go ahead and leave it down there and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Until next time be brilliant!
Callan Rush xo
Accelerated Learning is Key!
Hi my name is Callan Rush and I’m here with another Workshop Wealth Tip.
This tip is all about what is generally known as Accelerated Learning…
So if you’re not familiar with that particular word, I’ll explain what Accelerated Learning is.
Have you ever been to a workshop and the person on stage is asking you to Hi-5 your neighbor and to repeat things back and fill in the blank and to say things back?
The purpose of these Neurolinguistic programming techniques is to actually make your learning experience more interactive.
A lot of people hate this and a lot of people use it.
So where do I stand on the issue?
My issue is that you absolutely must learn how to use Accelerated Learning from the stage and how to use Neurolinguistic programming from the stage…
But the trick with pulling it off and making sure it’s a win for you and a win for your audience is called SETTING THE CONTEXT.
So a lot of people will just get up on stage and start using all these techniques and asking their audience to Hi-5 and ask their audience to repeat things back but they won’t actually tell their audience ahead of time why they are doing it.
Then what happens in that the audience member who is being asked to do all these things starts to feel like a monkey that is being told to do tricks.
So what you want to do instead is set the context for Accelerated Learning.
You can set it up by letting your audience know that you will be using some things that will help them learn faster, remember more of what they learn, sustain their learning and be able to implement it in a practical way more easily.
Get their enrollment, explain what’s in it for them before you start using all these techniques.
And I think what you’ll find is they will be much more eager and enrolled to participate with you in the Accelerated Learning.
So that’s my Workshop Wealth Tip.
If you want to look below the video you’ll see there is a place for you to leave questions and comments.
If you’re interested to learn exactly how I language the permission when I’m asking for permission to use Accelerated Learning, go ahead and leave a comment below and I’ll tell you how I do it!
Until next time be brilliant!
Callan Rush xo
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