Creating online courses is easy, but getting your students to complete the courses can be the toughest. In this podcast, I share 3 of my top strategies that can help your students learn at 10x speed.
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Speaker 1: The attention span of people are really low these days.
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Speaker 1: And if you really want to get your students to
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Speaker 1: go through courses and experience A 10 X learning, this
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Speaker 1: is a podcast for you take a lot of notes
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Speaker 1: so that what shake here, let's type in,
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Speaker 1: if you just think that by giving more information or
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Speaker 1: having longer videos in your courses, you're going to be
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Speaker 1: getting a very good uh testimonial and customer results and
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Speaker 1: student results. I'm sorry to say that it's not true.
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Speaker 1: Giving more does not equal to more results. More is
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Speaker 1: actually more confusing in a world with so many distractions
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Speaker 1: in this particular podcast. I want to break it down
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Speaker 1: into explaining to you how I've been able to get
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Speaker 1: more than 70% completion rate on my courses and a
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Speaker 1: very high retention. In fact, in my learning management system,
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Speaker 1: uh there have been more than 200 people who have
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Speaker 1: shared their comments below my courses,
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Speaker 1: not based on what I teach, but the way I
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Speaker 1: teach it. And uh having created more than 50 to
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Speaker 1: 60 courses in the last five years and have and
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Speaker 1: also done multiple revisions and it operations of it. I've
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Speaker 1: kind of understood the formula on how it works. How
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Speaker 1: do you get your students to learn 10 X faster
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Speaker 1: even if they are brand new and stuff like that? Now,
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Speaker 1: if you actually go back to this thing called the
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Speaker 1: learning pyramid, uh it says that the most
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Speaker 1: unproductive way of learning is by listening to a lecture
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Speaker 1: and then comes reading, after reading comes audio visual, then
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Speaker 1: demonstration discussion groups. So the first thing I want to
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Speaker 1: mention to all of you here is that old styles
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Speaker 1: of passive teaching methods do not work as effectively as
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Speaker 1: how it used to work even 1015 years ago because
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Speaker 1: of the digital age that we are in.
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Speaker 1: So the participatory teaching methods like discussion groups practicing by
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Speaker 1: doing teaching others, all of these are much more effective
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Speaker 1: than any other forms of learning through games and activities
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Speaker 1: and stuff like that than any other form of learning.
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Speaker 1: But having said that
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Speaker 1: I know many of you here listening to this podcast
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Speaker 1: are knowledge givers. Your coaches are aspiring to create your
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Speaker 1: own online course to create some leverage. Now, if you
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Speaker 1: are not able to get the insights of what I'm
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Speaker 1: going to share with you in this podcast,
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Speaker 1: there's a higher probability that you will create a course,
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Speaker 1: you'll put it out there, but it will be too
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Speaker 1: boring for people. They'll not even complete that course. So
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Speaker 1: how do you really create that kind of A 10
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Speaker 1: X engagement in your courses is what I'm going to
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Speaker 1: cover over here. Now, if you look at the formal
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Speaker 1: education system, most people who come from the formal education system,
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Speaker 1: they have this idea that more information equals more knowledge
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Speaker 1: equals more results. So formal education is built on the
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Speaker 1: foundation of volume of information and memorization. OK?
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Speaker 1: But if you look at the digital coaching process, if
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Speaker 1: you want to really get your students to learn faster,
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Speaker 1: it's all about simplification and Gamification.
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Speaker 1: If you get this one point, everything else will fall
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Speaker 1: into place because it's like giving you a map of
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Speaker 1: a city like Mumbai for example, and you have to
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Speaker 1: mug up the entire map that is option one and
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Speaker 1: option two is you don't have to mug up the map.
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Speaker 1: You just need to open up Google maps and know
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Speaker 1: how to go from point A to point B. OK?
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Speaker 1: You know,
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Speaker 1: you have to know about all the areas in Mumbai.
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Speaker 1: You just need to know how to go from the
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Speaker 1: place where you are to where you want to go.
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Speaker 1: And that is how you need to approach digital coaching.
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Speaker 1: Digital coaching is like giving your students a Google map
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Speaker 1: to get to point B from point A wherever they
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Speaker 1: are in whichever topic that you're teaching. So I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: give you three really powerful principles that I've been implementing
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Speaker 1: in my course design in my curriculum design, which now
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Speaker 1: when you go through my courses, those of you are
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Speaker 1: in my community, when, when you listen to this podcast
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Speaker 1: and then go through my courses,
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Speaker 1: you will understand the method behind the madness and you'll
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Speaker 1: be able to see through what I'm actually saying. And
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Speaker 1: now if you're not a part of my community, you
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Speaker 1: can click on the link on the description below or
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Speaker 1: just go to S ID zs.co forward slash live and
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Speaker 1: attend my next live webinar and learn how you can
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Speaker 1: be a part of my community. OK? Or just go
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Speaker 1: to inter life cell hub.com and you can join us. Now,
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Speaker 1: the first concept I want to share with you is
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Speaker 1: goal Gamification.
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Speaker 1: Note this down in your notepads.
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Speaker 1: Goal Gamification, you have to know what outcomes your students
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Speaker 1: are looking for. So for example, if you're teaching people
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Speaker 1: how to lose weight,
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Speaker 1: now the goal is to lose weight, but there could
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Speaker 1: be other parameters besides weight loss. For example, it's not
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Speaker 1: just about losing weight, it's about having more energy in
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Speaker 1: the body, having building better immunity, having a better fitness,
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Speaker 1: sleeping well and all these other parameters, if your body
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Speaker 1: is in a good state, you'll automatically be able to
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Speaker 1: lose weight. OK. So once you know what are the
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Speaker 1: parameters
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Speaker 1: idly should have six parameters
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Speaker 1: to identify the outcome and the result for any topic.
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Speaker 1: So if it is business growth,
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Speaker 1: the easy outcome is what to create more revenues and
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Speaker 1: get more sales. But the other outcomes are uh which
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Speaker 1: are other parameters you can evaluate are, do they have
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Speaker 1: the assistance and process in place? Do they have the
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Speaker 1: right teams in place? Are they using the right tools?
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Speaker 1: Are they able to uh do they have the right
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Speaker 1: marketing strategy? Do they have the right uh you know,
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Speaker 1: lead magnet to attract the leads? Do they have a
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Speaker 1: good conversion process? OK. Now, all of these are parameters
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Speaker 1: that lead to the big goal of getting more sales
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Speaker 1: and getting more reviews. So once you've defined your six
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Speaker 1: parameters
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Speaker 1: as a part of goal Gamification is then you have
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Speaker 1: to design three stages of goals.
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Speaker 1: So coming to the business example, you know, setting up teams,
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Speaker 1: setting up systems, marketing strategy, uh you know, outreach strategy
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Speaker 1: conversion strategy is six parameters. You can create three stages
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Speaker 1: of goals where the first stage is like a activity
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Speaker 1: based goal. So put them through a six mission hackathon
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Speaker 1: or some kind of a, you know, challenge where you're
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Speaker 1: going to be working on these six parameters and helping
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Speaker 1: the business owner move forward,
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Speaker 1: like in the case of weight loss, even though the
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Speaker 1: goal is weight loss, you're going to help them work
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Speaker 1: on these six parameters. The first parameter could be hydration,
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Speaker 1: drinking enough water, moving enough, eating the right nutritious food,
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Speaker 1: having a strong mindset and all the different parameters, you're
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Speaker 1: going to actually make them take actions. And if they
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Speaker 1: come to those actions, you can give them an award
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Speaker 1: which is an activity based reward or an award.
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Speaker 1: In my case, we have something called the freedom finisher
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Speaker 1: where once they have their knowledge, business set up and
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Speaker 1: they are ready to launch the world. Once they've opened
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Speaker 1: up shop, that's the first award that I give.
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Speaker 1: The second award you need to give is a result
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Speaker 1: based award. So let's say if somebody in the weight
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Speaker 1: loss example has followed those six parameters or has followed
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Speaker 1: the steps in those in those six areas and they
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Speaker 1: have lost maybe 5 kg of weight in a particular
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Speaker 1: duration of time. Then you can interview them and you
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Speaker 1: can give them an award. Like in my case, I
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Speaker 1: have a Hall of Fame award. If anybody crosses three
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Speaker 1: lacs in revenues, OK. The business case,
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Speaker 1: you can evaluate the six parameters if they have set
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Speaker 1: up their team or if they have improved their efficiency
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Speaker 1: in their operations or they have improved, they have got
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Speaker 1: their marketing strategy, right? And they sell to get some
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Speaker 1: revenues coming into their bank, then you can give the
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Speaker 1: second award which is a result based award. So the
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Speaker 1: first award is an activity based award. The second award
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Speaker 1: is a result based award, but it is a small result.
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Speaker 1: It's a breakthrough, the first milestone result.
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Speaker 1: And then you need to have the third reward, which
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Speaker 1: is superstar award. Like in my case, I have something
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Speaker 1: called the one crore champion. This award is uh the
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Speaker 1: the coaching industries. I would say everybody in the training
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Speaker 1: coaching world, they are aspiring to get the One Crow
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Speaker 1: Champion award from me on stage, which is uh an
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Speaker 1: aspirational thing. Now it normally takes 1 to 2 years
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Speaker 1: for somebody to come to the point of getting a
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Speaker 1: One Crow Champion award. So the first step
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Speaker 1: to get 10 x faster learning your students is right.
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Speaker 1: In the beginning of your videos, talk about the six parameters.
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Speaker 1: You want to evaluate them on talk about the three
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Speaker 1: stages that they need to go through and talk about
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Speaker 1: the ultimate goal and talk about how they need to
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Speaker 1: uh go through this process of learning to ultimately receive
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Speaker 1: that award from you. So when you dangle the carrot
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Speaker 1: and when you actually show that students will take action,
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Speaker 1: the second concept I want to share, share with you
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Speaker 1: is path fragmentation. If you go to internet life cell
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Speaker 1: hub.com and there's on the menu item. If you click
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Speaker 1: on the path there, I have a very beautifully designed pathway. Now,
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Speaker 1: what does a path fragmentation mean? If you have to
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Speaker 1: climb a mountain, there are different base camps that you
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Speaker 1: need to go through? OK, you can't directly just walk
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Speaker 1: towards the peak.
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Speaker 1: So path fragmentation is identifying what are those base camps
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Speaker 1: that students need to go through. And these three stages
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Speaker 1: of goals can be those base camps. Now to, to
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Speaker 1: reach each base camp,
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Speaker 1: the student needs to know what they need to learn
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Speaker 1: and what they need to do. OK. So in other words,
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Speaker 1: path fragmentation is having absolute clarity on what is a
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Speaker 1: learning path for a student and what is the implementation
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Speaker 1: path for the student to reach that particular base camp?
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Speaker 1: And if they complete those assignments, then they go to
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Speaker 1: the next base camp and the next base camp and
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Speaker 1: then they reach the peak and the peak is going
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Speaker 1: to be that ultimate award that they're going to be
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Speaker 1: giving them.
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Speaker 1: So a path fragmentation is defining the base camps, defining
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Speaker 1: the learning path and defining the implementation path. And along
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Speaker 1: the way, you can also have a certification path. If
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Speaker 1: they complete so many number of base camps, you can
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Speaker 1: give some certifications if you want,
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Speaker 1: this can be applied in a business niche in a
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Speaker 1: career niche, in a health niche, in a wealth niche relationship, niche,
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Speaker 1: whatever may be the topic path, fragmentation can really accelerate
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Speaker 1: the journey for your students.
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Speaker 1: And finally, number three is content chunking, chunking down complex
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Speaker 1: ideas into simple micro learning topics.
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Speaker 1: Now, when you're gonna be designing a course,
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Speaker 1: ideally, you need to keep in mind that a normal
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Speaker 1: person will not be able to spend more than 60
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Speaker 1: minutes per day in one sitting. So what I try
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Speaker 1: to do is whenever I'm designing a course, I try
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Speaker 1: to make sure that that a person who's entering that
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Speaker 1: particular course is able to finish that course in one
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Speaker 1: sitting itself and crisp to the point, fast paced action
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Speaker 1: oriented videos, which I'm able to give it to them
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Speaker 1: in small chunks. Instead of recording a 40 minutes video.
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Speaker 1: I break that entire concept down to 5555 minute videos. Ok.
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Speaker 1: So if you're gonna do a three day course, think
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Speaker 1: in terms of 60 minutes per day into three days
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Speaker 1: each day they learn for, they can probably run through
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Speaker 1: 10 videos or 12 videos each video for 5 to
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Speaker 1: 10 minutes maximum and duration. Ok.
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Speaker 1: So if you're gonna do a three day course, 60
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Speaker 1: minutes per day, if you're gonna do one day, course
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Speaker 1: I can think in terms of 60 minutes per day,
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Speaker 1: that is the the thumb rule. Ok? That's how I,
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Speaker 1: I like to go through it. And when I start
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Speaker 1: my course itself, I tell people that please make sure
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Speaker 1: that you complete this course in one setting itself, it's
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Speaker 1: only going to be for one hour maximum. I may
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Speaker 1: stretch it to maybe 90 minutes. But the best part
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Speaker 1: is when people complete that entire course within 16 minutes
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Speaker 1: to 90 minutes,
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Speaker 1: they feel so good. They feel they've got a lot
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Speaker 1: in one place and even for you to design a
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Speaker 1: course like that, you will not beat around the bush.
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Speaker 1: No fluff, you just remove all the fluff, get straight
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Speaker 1: to the point and give them the steps and then
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Speaker 1: exactly what they need to do. Ok.
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Speaker 1: And how do you really create this kind of content?
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Speaker 1: Junking every video? You can either break that video down
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Speaker 1: to six steps or three things. Ok. Six steps to
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Speaker 1: achieving this particular or completing this task. Ok. Uh Three
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Speaker 1: things that you got to do to
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Speaker 1: complete this one step. So imagine base camp to base camp.
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Speaker 1: There are going to be many, many, many steps. And
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Speaker 1: if you can cover each of the steps because if
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Speaker 1: you're climbing the mountain, you got to take steps moving
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Speaker 1: towards the base camp for every six steps. Imagine that
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Speaker 1: there is a small video. The next six steps is
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Speaker 1: a video. Next six steps is a video. Next six
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Speaker 1: steps is a video. So it becomes easy for them
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Speaker 1: to consume.
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Speaker 1: Where in the video also there's a template that you
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Speaker 1: can follow.
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Speaker 1: The first part of the video you can talk about.
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Speaker 1: What is this all about? What is this video all about?
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Speaker 1: The second part of the video is why is this
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Speaker 1: concept important? And the third part of the video is
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Speaker 1: how you can actually implement this
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Speaker 1: and give them the how part. And then the last
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Speaker 1: part of the video is what next tell them. Just
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Speaker 1: like when you're watching a TV series on Netflix, you
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Speaker 1: see in the next episode, this is going to happen.
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Speaker 1: So they open the loop where the loop is going
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Speaker 1: to be closed or next episode. So if you're able
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Speaker 1: to take the, you know, the soap opera concept where
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Speaker 1: in the beginning of the video, you ask people to
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Speaker 1: take notes. At the end of the video, you ask
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Speaker 1: people to share notes and as you're closing, you can
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Speaker 1: say in the next video, I'm going to teach this,
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Speaker 1: so do not miss this and move to the next video.
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Speaker 1: So when you're able to create those kind of open
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Speaker 1: loops
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Speaker 1: at the end of each video, opening up into the
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Speaker 1: next video, the acceleration and the way that students would
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Speaker 1: consume through the through those videos would be really fast.
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Speaker 1: And again, these videos are less than five minutes to
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Speaker 1: the point fast. You're sharing PPT mind maps, giving concepts
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Speaker 1: high energy
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Speaker 1: in the videos that's going to really make a huge difference.
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Speaker 1: So these are the three secrets that I'd like to
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Speaker 1: share with you if you want to get your students
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Speaker 1: to learn 10 X faster through digital courses. Number one
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Speaker 1: goal Gamification, number two, path fragmentation and number three content chunking. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you have been listening to this podcast on my
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