Making the Message Stick [Learning Lab]

The FDA’s Foodborne Illness Risk Factor studies concluded that the presence of trained food handlers has a positive effect on overall food safety compliance. Likewise, recent studies have unveiled the need to provide training in a manner to be received by “oral-culture” communicators. For the Environmental Health Specialist, it is critical to communicate information that not only encourages retention of key messages but also motivates individuals to act on the information provided. In essence, the trainer should inspire individual behavior change. This participant-focused learning lab provides a variety of hands-on training activities to increase adult learning and retention through learner-focused involvement and crucial trainer techniques that add energy and emphasis to fundamental messages. The intended outcome is to providethe audience with new skills as learner-focused trainer.

Proven: Training does impact food safety compliance! So how do we get the message to stick? From time-tested Confucius, Bloom and Maslow, to modern-day Stolovitch and Dale, this participant-focused learning lab provides a variety of hands-on training activities to increase adult learning and retention through “oral culture”-focused involvement. Go home prepared to inspire, motivate, and bring about behavioral change.