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I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.
There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Here’s just a few: Instructional. Innovation / Generating New Ideas. A simple “who else has an idea?”
So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructionaldesign and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructionaldesign method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.
Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructionaldesign and facilitation techniques. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.
The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences that Connect, Inspire, and Engage. Training Design'
Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.
” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructionaldesign, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory.
While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructionaldesign and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.
I love Bregman’s idea. Learning from Failure: Little Bets: This past year, I gave a keynote for the Social Good Brasil Conference where I met Peter Sims , author of Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. The theme he selected for the year really resonated with me: Slow Down. That’s what I need.
We asked participants to do a “think and write” and jot down one idea that resonated before facilitating a grand synthesis of what we learned about designing more impactful capacity building programs for grantees. You can read my guest post over the Communications Network Blog that summarizes these insights.
The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on?
This peer learning exchange has monthly conference calls that balance expert content delivery with peer sharing and making a commitment to put ideas and recommendations into practice over the month. The other skill building session was a session on working SMARTer on social channels – What are the time saving techniques?
Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.
This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.
When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructionaldesigner for it be effective. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). In other words, to what end?
It’s been great to discuss instructionaldesign with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.
The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructionaldesign in a second post. Or you can borrow some ideas from Hollywood.
In order to accomplish as much as possible, I have lived many of the ideas around self-care that in our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Resilience: This theme is related to all the writing, curriculum development, and instruction that I will do this year based on my work on the Emerging Leaders Playbook and The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.
These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.
They enjoy sharing their ideas and perspectives openly with others. My inspiration for the instructionaldesign was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.
They communicate more effectively, stimulate new ideas, and apply what they hear to improve their team’s productivity and results. Inspire new ideas : “Can that be done in any other way?”. Reflective Listening Techniques. How To Become A Virtuoso Listener: Practice, Practice, Practice. ask, “How have sales been going?”.
These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis. You can find out more and register here.
I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructionaldesign. " This reminded of the Thiagi's Interactive Lecture techniques. Comfort Levels. In the United States, I've noticed that over the past 2-3 years, there is a growing divide in participants experience/knowledge gap.
So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructionaldesign. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. As a participant, you can also learn a lot by observing and reverse engineering the instructionaldesign.
Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructionaldesign is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.
Here are some reflections on the instructionaldesign: 1. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Because of limited time, I did not cover these ideas as a full group, although the basic information was on the printed materials and the cards.
I'm always overly critical about instructional delivery, and rely on evaluations to help hone and refine it. One of the instructionaldesign flaws was that we assumed that all participants would be ready to write a draft social strategy as homework for the first night.
Users who are accustomed to existing workflows may be hesitant about the idea of adopting a new system. Data Security Concerns Implementing robust encryption techniques is necessary to safeguard sensitive data. User Resistance to Change The human element often proves to be a significant hurdle during LMS integration.
Users who are accustomed to existing workflows may be hesitant about the idea of adopting a new system. Data Security Concerns Implementing robust encryption techniques is necessary to safeguard sensitive data. User Resistance to Change The human element often proves to be a significant hurdle during LMS integration.
Users who are accustomed to existing workflows may be hesitant about the idea of adopting a new system. Data Security Concerns Implementing robust encryption techniques is necessary to safeguard sensitive data. User Resistance to Change The human element often proves to be a significant hurdle during LMS integration.
The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructionaldesign were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructionaldesign and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.
I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The Colorado Funders Association is doing this on its blog about philanthropy stories. ) The fun part of instructionaldesign is embedding opportunities for this to happen. (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.
The curriculum and instructionaldesign included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. Ashley shared a brilliant idea and technique avoid the stigma from failure. Growing My Instructional Chops. Stay tuned for that!
Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. They also have to present their ideas to the whole class and do a brief write up. This combination of advanced planning and evaluation helps one continuously improve their instructionaldesign.
Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructionaldesign. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructionaldesigner !
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