• Home
  • About Us
  • Our Team
  • Contact Us
  • Login

Join In!

  • facebook
  • pinterest
  • twitter

Progressive Women's Leadership

Empowering. Supportive. Bold

EMPOWERING. SUPPORTIVE. BOLD.
  • Training
    • Career Development
    • Communication
    • Leadership
  • All-Access
  • Custom
  • eGuides
  • Blog
    • Leadership
    • Communication
    • Community
    • Life Balance
    • Gender Partnerships
    • Women in the World
  • Resources
    • Free Leadership E-Guides
    • Podcasts
You are here: Home / Worked for Her / Worked for Her: Now training is more fun and more effective

Worked for Her: Now training is more fun and more effective

February 19, 2018 By Jennifer Azara

Imagine if you had a network of women leaders all across the country that you could tap anytime you wanted to find out what’s working for them. With our new feature, Worked for Her, you can. In our most recent installment, Penny Powers, Director of HR at NDC Real Estate Management in Pittsburgh, shares her secret to spicing up her company’s meetings. 

When it comes to rolling out a new process, software or program, we want our staffers to be well-equipped and confident after training.

But as we all know, training sessions can quickly turn into a big snooze-fest.

It’s hard to keep everyone engaged when you’re talking through instructions and tedious process steps.

And the more long-term downside to boring training sessions is that staffers don’t retain the information. So when it comes time to use the new process or program, they don’t remember everything that was taught.

For the sake of our staffers and our company’s efficiency, we needed to shake up our training sessions.

Creating experts

How did we do that? By replacing our usual lectures with interactive, trivia-style training.

Before a session, we email everyone a short document with new material to review beforehand.

Then we break staffers into groups and randomly call on them to answer questions about the material.

If someone gets the answer wrong, they’re out of the game – but their group continues. The team with the most members left at the end wins. (And the more important the topic is, the bigger the prize is.)

Now during training, there’s a lot less snoozing and a lot more laughter and learning.

(Penny Powers, Director of HR, NDC Real Estate Management, Pittsburgh)

Looking for more proven strategies from your peers? Check out our new offering 101 Management Problems Solved: How Successful Women Tackled Common Leadership Challenges

Recommended For You

  • How To Help New Leaders Avoid FailureHow To Help New Leaders Avoid Failure
  • Winning Negotiation Skills Women Have Had All AlongWinning Negotiation Skills Women Have Had All Along
  • Will this be what it finally takes to get more women in senior-level positions?Will this be what it finally takes to get more women in senior-level positions?
  • Do You Have Executive Presence?Do You Have Executive Presence?
  • Can’t we just call Female Leaders ‘Leaders?’Can’t we just call Female Leaders ‘Leaders?’
  • Breathing New Life into the Same Old MeetingsBreathing New Life into the Same Old Meetings
  • What Women’s History Month Means to Women’s Leadership Today – Part 1What Women’s History Month Means to Women’s Leadership Today – Part 1
  • Podcast Ep. 2: Pamela Jett – 3 Keys for Better Self-Talk During Emotionally Charged SituationsPodcast Ep. 2: Pamela Jett – 3 Keys for Better Self-Talk During Emotionally Charged Situations

Filed Under: Worked for Her

About Jennifer Azara

“I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.” -- Amy Poehler, Actress
 
I’m thrilled to have recently joined Progressive Women’s Leadership in the role of Managing Editor. I’ve worked as a writer and editor for more than 18 years, covering a variety of “beats” from CFOs to warehouse workers. But this is the one I’m most excited about. The key to editorial success is to be in constant contact with your audience – find out what info they need, what keeps them up at night. Then work tirelessly to give them that with every story. I want our site to be the first resource you go to when you have a challenge at work. This bossy woman is ready to get down to business!

Looking to Make a Difference?

Join thousands of other leading women who have made the commitment to change.

GET MORE INFORMATION

KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST

Updates, discounts and content from Progressive Women’s Leadership straight to your inbox. Your information will never be sold or distributed.

Negotiating Skills: How to Ask for – and Get – What You Want | Course | Starts November 2nd

Popular Posts

  • Why It Pays to Praise: 40 Ways to Say ‘Good Job’
  • Employees complaining about pay? How to respond – and keep morale high
  • 6 Tools for Handling Difficult Conversations
  • Use your head – literally! 4 head gestures every leader needs
  • How To Deal With Those Time-Wasting Employees
Progressive Women's Leadership

Training

  • Live Training
  • On-Demand Webinars
  • Custom Training

Blog Topics

  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Community
  • Life Balance
  • Gender Partnerships
  • Women in the World

Leadership E-Guides


Free Resources

  • Free Leadership E-Guides
  • Podcasts

Copyright © 2022 · Progressive Women's Leadership · Privacy Policy

WELCOME BACK!

Enter your username and password below to log in

Forget Your Username or Password?

Reset Password

Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.

Log In