Mike Kuczala - Training in Motion: How to Use Movement to Create Engaging and Effective Learning

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Training in Motion

HOW TO USE MOVEMENT
TO CREATE ENGAGING
AND EFFECTIVE LEARNING

Mike Kuczala

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kuczala, Mike.
Training in motion : how to use movement to create engaging and effective learning / Mike Kuczala. First Edition.
pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8144-3494-9 (pbk.) ISBN 0-8144-3494-0 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-8144-3495-6 (ebook)

1. Movement, Psychology of. 2. Brain stimulation. 3. Movement education. I. Title.

BF295.K83 2015

153.153dc 232015010238

2015 Mike Kuczala.
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This book is dedicated to the many students, both adults and
children, that I have had the pleasure of knowing over the past
three decades. I learned far more from you than I could have ever
imparted. Thank you.

Several years ago, I was conducting a train-the-trainer program, and I asked people what they wanted out of the course. Most of the answers were traditional responses, but one surprised me. The individual, who had been in one of my programs before, sat up and said, I want to train and educate people like you do. You not only make it fun and engaging, but people remember and apply what they have learned in a way that I have never experienced before. I am back to learn what you do and how you do it. I was humbled, but not at my abilities. Rather, I understood that I had learned my techniques from Mike Kuczala.

The purpose of Training in Motion is to do something that the traditional texts do not teach, and that is to make your training more effective by tailoring your delivery and content to the way the brain and body learn best. Movement matters, and Training in Motion is practical, realistic, and simple to use. It will give you results. After reading this book and incorporating Mikes principles into your teaching, an average trainer will become good, and the good trainer will become great.

As a human resources executive, professional trainer, and academic, the material contained in Training in Motion is relevant to most aspects of my work. First, the book is written in a manner that is easy to understand, easy to explain, and easy to implement. It is logical. The activities contained in each chapter actually put into practice what you have read and learned. In addition, as a training and learning professional, it helps you to understand the reason behind what you are doing, why it works, how to do it, and things to avoid. This book gives you the tools to you need. Training in Motion is not about games trainers play. For those of us who train professionally, training is not a game. Rather it is about the principles, practices, activities, and exercises that enhance the transfer of knowledge, skills, and abilities. Training in Motion makes learning come alive.

When I was asked to write the Foreword to Mikes book, I was floored. My first reaction was, couldnt they get anyone else? But Mike told me he didnt want anyone else. I thought about our first meeting. It was several weeks after I experienced Mikes program that focused on classroom learning for children. His first book, The Kinesthetic Classroom, is a fantastic tool for those in that line of work. It changed the way I taught younger people. As a corporate person, I knew applying those elements would rock the training world. After the session, we briefly talked about how the same concepts could be applied to training in the business world. As a follow up, we had dinner at a Korean restaurant in Manhattan. We talked about how to use Mikes expertise in a way that is currently not being done on a large scale in corporations. There are a lot of trainers peddling their services, but not a lot of great trainers. We talked about writing a book. I forgot about that until Mike asked me to write this Foreword. Successful people say what they will do and do what they say they will do. I expect that Training in Motion will allow you to reach a new level of effectiveness and professional development as it did for me.

Josh Friedlander
Chief Human Resources Officer
Latham & Watkins

Our innate desire to be in constant motion is a key survival characteristic of humans. People pace when forced to stand in a line or doodle on a piece of paper if caught in a boring meeting. Certainly, technological gadgetry and the expectation that we need to be in constant contact with the world is partly to blame, but at the heart of all this caged up gotta move behavior is a basic, instinctual need for movement.