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Participative Training Techniques

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    Training

  • Methodology

    Distance Learning

Select appropriate participative methods to achieve training and development objectives. Create a supportive and participative training environment. Plan and facilitate participative training sessions. Brief and debrief activities to ensure their successful execution and conclusion. Provide interactive feedback. Handle sensitive issues which can develop during training sessions. Encourage self-development in trainees. Suitable for: Experienced trainers who are ready to recognise that effective learning is about much more than giving thorough instruction, however carefully prepared, sequenced, structured and delivered. The attitudes and mind-sets, the enthusiasm, motivation and commitment that people bring to their work are.

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Objectives
Select appropriate participative methods to achieve training and development objectives. Create a supportive and participative training environment. Plan and facilitate participative training sessions. Brief and debrief activities to ensure their successful execution and conclusion. Provide interactive feedback. Handle sensitive issues which can develop during training sessions. Encourage self-development in trainees.

Course Content
Course Methodology:
the whole programme acts as a model of learner-centred learning. It is built around a series of exercises illustrating various participative methods that can be used to facilitate the transfer of learning.

First Contact:
recognising the importance of initial contact and effects of prior conditioning
breaking down barriers to interaction
recognising the importance of informal contacting as a means of making individual needs explicit.

The Participative Trainer:
the importance of word usage and meaning
the effects of positive and negative language
discriminating between situations where the trainer is an expert and where the trainer is a facilitator.

The Psychology of Training:
managing attitudes to comfort and risk
behaviourist, cognitive and humanist schools
experiential learning.

Learner Centred Techniques:
adapting participative exercises covering a variety of different learning methods and requiring a range of management skills from the trainer
helping learners to learn in the way that works best for them
applying flexible learner-centred techniques.

Giving Feedback:
giving and receiving feedback
the importance of positive feedback
making criticism constructive
using experiential training to enable peer feedback to be given.

Briefing:
briefing and debriefing learning activities, case studies and role-plays
confidentiality, personal safety and trust.

Ice-Breakers, Energisers and Other Techniques:
when and how to use ice-breakers, energisers, reflections
communication and discussion techniques practised.

Action Plan:
participants plan and discuss what they will do on return to work.

Participative Training Techniques

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