Finding ways to change-up your training can be difficult, especially if some of the ways you've used before don't seem to adapt well to the material you're using now. And who really has time to re-create the wheel? So don't. Borrow some of our tips here. These are less common, but very engaging, ways to put some interaction into your education.

Getting participants in a presentation or training program to listen and take what they heard back to the workplace is often a challenge. Here are six strategies that can help increase transfer of knowledge from the classroom to the job.

Need a visual or object lesson for removing obstacles? Deborah Schonfeld uses this template to create simple boxes. She puts clip art bricks onto each square except for two. On each brick, she writes a specifically stated learning point which becomes the "key" that opens the box. "On the remaining two, put the name of an obstacle that the training will help the employee overcome. On the second free square, place a picture of a door with a key hole," Schonfeld explains. For her session on the fear of presenting, Schonfeld put "fear of making a mistake" on one of the squares as an obstacle. A key to overcoming that fear might be "good use of notes and outline."