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thiagi.com Workshops Interactive Training Strategies

Interactive Training Strategies

June 30-July 2 2008.

This three-day Thiagi workshop practices what it preaches. Participants learn new principles and procedures and apply them to creating and conducting different types of learning activities that meet their training objectives, audiences, and needs.

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Target Group

Trainers, managers, consultants, and facilitators who work with individuals and teams in a multicultural setting.

Day 1. Training Games and Activities

Objectives

Define training games and activities, differentiate among different types, and specify their advantages and limitations in training adults.

Identify the most appropriate training game and activity format suit specific performance objectives and participant characteristics.

Experience, explore, design, develop, evaluate, and revise these formats of non-simulation games and activities:

1. Structured sharing
2. Creativity techniques
3. Interactive lectures
4. Textra games
5. Item processing
6. Double exposure
7. Card games
8. Board games
9. Instructional puzzles
10. Improv games

Day 2. Simulations

Objectives

Define simulation games, differentiate among different types of simulation games, and specify their advantages and limitations in intercultural training.

Identify the most appropriate types of simulation game (from among 10 alternatives) to suit specific performance objectives and participant characteristics.

Experience, explore, design, and develop simulation games using any of these formats:

1. Action Learning
2. Reflective Teamwork Activities
3. The Case Method
4. Culture Assimilators
5. Production Simulations
6. Interactive Storytelling
7. Role Playing
8. Cash Games
9. PC Simulations
10. Jolts

Day 3. Facilitating Training Activities

Objectives

Empower participants to determine the scope and sequence of activities in intercultural training and teambuilding situations—without ignoring the goals and objectives.

Make real-time modifications to the 16 dimensions of facilitation to better suit multicultural participant reactions.

Employ fifteen strategies for preventing negative and disruptive behaviors in conducting team activities with multicultural participants.

Use a seven-stage debriefing model for reflecting on intense intercultural experiences and sharing insights derived from them.

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