Teaching Skills

Successful teaching requires you to inspire others to want to cooperate with you.

When you endeavor to teach new skills to others, you are attempting to motivate specific behavior changes in them. This is more effective if you can convince those you are teaching that, by acting as you suggest, they will gain something that they value. Successful teaching requires you to inspire others to want to cooperate with you.

However, different people consider different skills to be more or less valuable to them, so you will also discover that the majority of responsibility for the learning of a new skills rest with the person you are teaching. Learners who really want to improve their skills and are willing to put in the effort will be successful.

ACTION POINT: Ensure there is value in what you are trying to teach.