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What's the right setting for delivering Experiential Learning content?
In the blog I wrote last month I tried to address some of the assumptions about experiential learning that seem to be getting in the way of people including elements of this approach in their programming. It seems that the most pervasive of these assumptions is about the physical spaces that are needed to deliver effective experiential content. To ...
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Are your assumptions about Experiential Learning getting in the way of a breakthrough in performance?
My friend and colleague Graham Cook is heading to Florida later this month where he'll be delivering a session at Training Magazine's 'Training 2024' conference and exhibition. His session is titled 'How to Design Behavioral Change Using Experiential Learning Activities'. I'm not going to be alongside him for this conference but that doesn't mean I...
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Continuous Professional Development for Focused Experiential Learning
Most good trainers and facilitators I meet tend to have a strongly developed intuition about the needs of others. It doesn't take long for them to get to understand what will help a student to learn, and how learning material needs to be presented to make it easier for that learning to take place. As these trainers and facilitators become more ...
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What's The Best Seasonal Gift You Could Give?
It’s a question I often read around this time of year, and it inevitably provokes responses from extremes of opinion. There are those who go full-on consumerist and suggest expensive cars, jewellery, homes etc, ideas that are balanced by those who reject these ideas and suggest good health, happiness, close family etc.
So, as I&rsquo...
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How do facilitators work with groups who have had an 'easy win'?
There were some interesting responses to last month’s blog which considered how to handle a session where your group are unsuccessful at completing the experiential task you have set them. For some people this was accepted as very sound advice, and it seems to have taken away some of the ‘fear of failure’ that was out there. ...
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What's the right setting for delivering Experiential Learning content?
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How do facilitators work with groups who have had an 'easy win'?
20 ideas for 2020 - Get your Training and Facilitation off to a lively start!
January is typically a time to look back over the old year and think about the new year ahead. That retrospective look often reminds us of things that we’ve done, enjoyed or determined never to repeat and can lead to new learning and resolutions for the future. In this blog we focus on short, simple experiential activities that can be used as icebreakers, energisers and tools for sensitising learners to the content of the training to come. In true January fashion, some of these are reminders of old favourites that may have been forgotten and need to be revived (think about the current move to re-use and re-cycle) and some may be new to you (although I guess many of them fall into the category of ‘pre-loved’ !)
These short activities, which we generally refer to as icebreakers, serve three main purposes. As with any experiential learning activity, they should be selected according to the learning outcomes that you wish to achieve and should have strong links to the main content of the session or programme. Nothing irritates, embarrasses and de-motivates a group more that an ill-conceived or threatening icebreaker and this is especially important because it sets the tone for the work and relationships that lie ahead.
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