The antidote to dry content: using storytelling in technical training

I got my new wonderful, shiny oven over a month ago. I really wanted it and I can honestly say it was anything but inexpensive. I still don’t know how to use it though. The booklet is there, I may even have opened it a couple of times but it all just seemed so… technical and dry. I’ll surely get on it as soon as I’ll really need to bake something but until then it will remain a mystery.

I now understand my trainees who over time have rolled their eyes whenever we hit more technical topics. I taught new entries in a big communications company for over six years. There were a lot of programs to go through, a ton of procedures and numerous rules and regulations. The course lasted for four weeks and as anyone could easily figure out could become both tiresome and boring.

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