Over the years I have had the privilege of working with many excellent trainers and facilitators. As a result of this I know the value of collaborative working, sharing experience and using our specific strengths to deliver great learning events for our participants.
- Sara Thorpe
- Andrew Rea
- Traci Edwards
- Anne Cannings
- Jackie Clifford
Here’s a taster of the first one…
Promoting participation in training
All trainers know that group participation makes for a more successful training session, yet it’s often the aspect that many find most challenging. It can lead to the situation most trainers dread – you ask your group a question, and there is silence; you look around hopefully at the group, and people avert their eyes. Eventually you find yourself answering your own question. So you decide on a little group work – chaos ensues as people spend more time debating what they should be doing or the value of the activity and the eventual output is poor. Afterwards you think that they were a difficult group, and that the session was hard work.
- Clarify the expectation at the beginning
- Ask open questions
- Use small groups
- Set up activities clearly and cleanly
Over the years I have had the privilege of working with many excellent trainers and facilitators. As a result of this I know the value of collaborative working, sharing experience and using our specific strengths to deliver great learning events for our participants.
- Sara Thorpe
- Andrew Rea
- Traci Edwards
- Anne Cannings
- Jackie Clifford
Here’s a taster of the first one…
Promoting participation in training
All trainers know that group participation makes for a more successful training session, yet it’s often the aspect that many find most challenging. It can lead to the situation most trainers dread – you ask your group a question, and there is silence; you look around hopefully at the group, and people avert their eyes. Eventually you find yourself answering your own question. So you decide on a little group work – chaos ensues as people spend more time debating what they should be doing or the value of the activity and the eventual output is poor. Afterwards you think that they were a difficult group, and that the session was hard work.
- Clarify the expectation at the beginning
- Ask open questions
- Use small groups
- Set up activities clearly and cleanly
