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Course Overview Every trainer needs to add new skills, techniques and exercises to his or her toolkit from time to time to ensure flexibility in meeting learning needs. Innovative, well facilitated participative exercises are fundamental tools to helping groups of individuals learn in a way that leads to enhanced performance or personal change. This two-day workshop gives trainers the opportunity to experience and add to their 'trainer's toolkit' a range of types of participative exercises while underpinning them with knowledge of learning theory and group facilitation issues and best practice. Audience New and experienced trainers who want to enhance the effectiveness of their training through the use of participative learning techniques. Skills Gained By the end of the course you will be able to: - outline how learning styles, left and right brain preference, the triune brain model and Howard Gardner's seven intelligences model link to the design and use of participative exercises
- explain and demonstrate good practice in creating a positive learning environment
- experience a range of participative exercises designed to achieve various outcomes
- experience and add to your repertoire energisers to alter learners' state
- outline best practice in relation to choosing, briefing, facilitating/'leave' and de-briefing experiential exercises
- outline the importance of positive language and precision questioning in facilitating learning.
Course Outline Day 1 - introduction and 'Rogues Gallery' exercise
- overview, personal objectives, group contract
Creating learning environments - opening sessions and rapport building
- left and right and Triune brain models and use of music
- using ice-breakers and energisers
Learning cycle and facilitating exercises - Kolb's experiential learning cycle and learning styles
- key steps in facilitating exercises
Overview of participative exercises - review of methods and using meta plan
- Howard Gardener's seven intelligences and using card sort exercises
Feedback and video case study exercise - constructive feedback and the power of positive language in feedback
- creating observation criteria checklists
- 'Customer Service' - video case study
Learning review - 'Dice Debate' - review exercise.
DAY 2 Learning review and action planning - 'Four Stations' - review exercise
- issues and best practice in reviewing
- encouraging transference of learning and action planning
Discussion exercise - 'Hot Debate' - negotiation and teambuilding exercise
- learnings re running and facilitating teamworking exercises
- using precision questioning in reviews and de-briefing
Case study exercise - 'Tricky Behaviour' - problem-solving case study exercise on dealing with not-so-easy participants
- issues and best practice in writing and facilitating case studies
- models of group dynamics
- trainer styles and interventions
Role-play exercise - 'Managing Performance' - performance management role play exercise
- issues and best practice in facilitating role plays
Personal learning review and action plan
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