TOOLS FOR TRAINERS
Here is a rare opportunity to learn and practise a wide range of active learning methods and reviewing skills. These techniques will enable you to accelerate participants' progress towards their learning goals. You will pick up many new tools for your trainer's toolkit - and the know-how to use them effectively.
THURSDAY: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS
10 things trainers should know about experiential learning
- This brief introduction to experiential learning will be of value to new and experienced trainers alike. This session will provide a common starting point and will enable you to assess your own skills.
- Topics include: empathy, optimism, trust, partnership, blocks, feelings, styles, success, intuition, balance, variety, support, risk, creativity, intensity ... and reviewing.
10 ways to develop communication skills
- 'Communication' is an ideal focus for the beginning of any experience-based course - including this one. You will learn methods that can be used within reviewing sessions or as stand-alone exercises.
FRIDAY: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND TEAMWORK SKILLS
10 ways to develop teamwork skills
- A series of teamwork tasks for trainers will enable you to explore teamwork from the 'inside' and the 'outside'. Topics will include: 'Learning about teams and teamwork', 'Learning about myself in teams', 'Learning about this team', 'Generating a variety of team experiences', 'Seeking success', 'facilitating the development of team skills'.
SATURDAY: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS
10 ways to develop leadership skills
- On leadership courses participants spend more time being led than they do leading. In this workshop you will learn ways of increasing the total amount of leadership experience available within a course. And you will learn reviewing techniques to maximise what participants' learn from their experiences of leadership.
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