Setting the Stage for Effective Role Plays

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Swati Karve

Successful role plays require meaningful and relevant characters, skillful facilitators, the participants ability to play the roles, observer involvement, and an effective debriefing process. Role plays can be prewritten, part of a video clip, impromptu, or created spec... More »

Moving Into the Live Virtual Classroom

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Martyn Lewis

With increasing pressure on learning organizations to deliver greater results and with ever-decreasing resources and time, there is an understandable race away from the physical to the virtual classroom. The catch-22 is that virtual training is seen by many as a poor an... More »

Developing One-to-One Training Programs

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Jim Caple

One-to-one training should not be seen as just a low-cost method of training. It is not simply placing an individual alongside a competent worker and expecting competence to develop by observing what is being done or by having it described to him. What is it? Conducted ... More »

Presenting Course Outlines in a Flow Chart Format

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Emanuel Albu

When a trainer introduces a course or workshop outline, he provides a snapshot of what will be covered, including the learning goals, timeline, activities, assignments, and other pertinent information to the participants. According to Pat McLagan, trainers can help lear... More »

Stop Following Joe Around!

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Bruno Neal

Most companies, those with and without formal training departments, have some sort of on-the-job training (OJT) in place to support the learning of a new hire. In most cases, the OJT consists of introducing the new hire to a more experienced employee who walks him throu... More »