Learn At Lunch: A Great Team, Sales, and Management Training Option

Learn At Lunch-Training Presentations 

Whether you call it learn-at-lunch (American Management Association term, circa 2013) or lunch-and-learn (also Lunch N Learn or "Lunch & Learn" terms @2007), this is a great option for disseminating short training nuggets. It can save both time and money when it comes to employee learning.

Please note, the older terms of Bring-Your-Own-Lunch Training or Brown Bag Seminars (started in the 1980's by offering short technical topics or product introductions) are dropping in popularity by business organizations due to language acceptability and labor issues.

Use learn-at-lunch time to:

• Introduce team-building concepts or simple business skills that do not require physical activities or special equipment
• Familiarize sales and customer service representatives with new products, services, or processes
• Encourage supervisors, managers, leaders, and facilitators to adopt new procedures, attitudes, or policies

For corporate events, nothing says says you have to use the term Learn-at-Lunch.  Instead you can even make your lunch menu a fun match to the topics.  Some ideas might be:  Tacos & Tools, Pizza N Presentations, Sandwiches & Sales, Training N Treats, Salad and Service, or Noodles & News. Get the idea?

For tips on Learn at Lunch, see:

• Why you would want to use this training option, review business productivity post The Marvelous Method of the Lunch and Learn!
• What to consider for short training modules via instructional design article Lunch N Learn: A Dollar Saving Training Option and Peak Performance Solutions post 10 Questions Leading to Impactful Lunch and Learn Topics.
• How to start this training option in posts containing Five Tips for Planning Learn-at-Lunch Events and How to Get Topics and Participants for Learn-at-Lunch Events.