This programme has been designed to give
internal facilitators the required skills and confidence to be able to deliver highly
effective workshops.
Objectives of this programme: Participants will learn the following:-
- The basics of good training and facilitation
- How to use the nurturing coaching
methodology effectively
- The techniques of accelerated learning and
how to apply them to learning challenges
- How to power up energy and maximise
personal impact
- How to use graphic facilitation techniques
to enhance the learning experience
Preparation: All participants will complete the following:-
- My Facebook personal introduction
- 360 degree feedback survey for a
Engaging Facilitator
- Prepare 3 icebreakers / energisers
Organisation:
·
The room layout will be just
chairs set up in a half circle
·
A flip charts stand in each
corner of the room
·
Plenty of flipchart paper and
good colour markers
Overview of training:
·
Day 1 – Learn the basics of
good training and facilitating
·
Day 2 – Practice delivering
training
·
Day 3 – Raise the bar! How to
become an amazing trainer!
NOTE: Participants will be asked to run
energisers and icebreakers throughout the three days at the beginning of
sessions.
The detailed storyboard of how we will do
this:-
Timing
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Story
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DAY 1
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Learn the basics of good training and facilitating
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09:00
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Setting the scene:
Workshop leader to introduce
himself and explain the workshop covering objectives and how it will be run.
Set out the rules for the day and
cover off the admin side.
Explain how to get the most from
the next three days, including how to take notes and that they will become
great facilitators by continuing to Reflect & Learn and hand out the A6
notebooks and get them going right away.
|
09:30
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Personal introductions:
Each participant will
have 5 minutes to introduce themselves on their tables using the ‘My
Facebook’ that they prepared as part of the pre-work.
Then get them, on each
table, to pick a coaching buddy and let them go off in pairs to have coffee
together.
|
11:00
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COFFEE BREAK
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11:30
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Nurturing Coaching – 1
This session will start
with a 30 minute theory session on Coaching and an explanation on
how the group will practice.
This is a buddy coaching session
Each person will be given their buddy’s 360 report They will be given time to prepare the coaching session following the guidance from the theory session Then they coach one another by feeding back the results of the survey and using GROW in the process |
13:00
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LUNCH
|
14:00
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Nurturing Coaching – 2
Complete the practice
sessions and run a summary session to capture the learning.
|
14:40
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The basics of training &
facilitating
Check out the know-how of the group
– Break into groups and brainstorm all the aspects of your training ability.
|
15:30
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COFFEE BREAK
|
16:00
|
The basics of good training &
facilitating
This session will cover all aspects
of training and facilitating, from the start, during the session and after.
If possible it would be good to
include Video Arts ‘You’ll Soon Get the Hang of It’ as part of this session.
|
17:00
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Preparation for day 2
The group will be broken
into pairs or threes (ideally not in coaching pairs) and they will be handed
their assignments for the next day. It will be explained that the whole of
the next day will be run by the participants to give them real experience of
training and facilitating.
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17:30
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END
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DAY 2
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Practice delivering training
|
08:30
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Learning review
Carry out a review to ensure that
participants have understood what was covered on the previous day.
|
09:00
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Advice on how to prepare
This will be a recap of
the basics of good training and facilitating, but in the context of their
assignments.
|
09:30
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Preparation for delivery
They will have 90 minutes to
prepare their learning session, which will include getting the material, room
layout, props, timings etc …the whole story.
|
11:00
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COFFEE BREAK
|
11:30
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Optimise your personal IMPACT – Explain that they will be judged by what they do in the 1st minute
of their contact with their participants. Explain how messages are
communicated through words, tonality and body language and which parts impact
the most.
Give them 5 minutes to prepare a 1 minute introduction to their
training session, and then get each person to present for ONLY 1 MINUTE.
Have a short wrap up at the end to summarise the key messages.
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12:00
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Practice session 1
Each practice session
will follow the following structure:-
·
Provide a short overview of how the session will be run
·
Run the session
·
Get feedback from the participants
·
Capture the learning.
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13:00
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LUNCH
|
14:00
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Practice session 2
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15:00
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Practice session 3
|
16:00
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COFFEE BREAK
|
16:30
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Practice session 4
|
17:30
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Practice session 5
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18:30
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END
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Day 3
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Raise the
bar! How to become an amazing facilitator!
|
09:00
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Learning review
|
09:30
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How your brain works
This session will explain in
layman’s term how the brain works building on the recent research that has
come out of the study of the human brain.
|
10:30
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COFFEE BREAK
|
11:00
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VAK
This covers how to use the senses
in order to maximise the learning experience.
|
12:00
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Graphic Facilitation
This session builds on
the previous two sessions and provides a means of applying the learning.
Graphic facilitation covers giant mind maps, learning maps, pictures to seed
ideas, and turning a simple flipchart into learning art.
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13:00
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LUNCH
|
14:00
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100 day learning
This session explains
the post workshop action learning that will take place, together with the
remote coaching and how that will be delivered.
If possible it will also
include a session on how to use the Release the Magic Virtual Learning
Environment which if used will provide the community meeting point for the
participants.
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15:00
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Action planning
This is possibly the most important
part of the workshop – the detailed action planning.
Each participant will take 20
minute to complete their action planner, then the remaining hour will be
devoted to buddy coaching sessions in which they will challenge their buddy’s
plans and make sure there is a very high commitment for whatever they finally
agree to do.
Final wrap up session.
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16:30
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END
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