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Category: FACILITATION TIPS
As facilitators of learning, teachers and trainers are constantly honing their own facilitation skills. They’re known to share their best and favorite learning tips with colleagues. Trainers Warehouse collates best practices from a broad range of resources, focusing on active learning, neuroscience, participation and engagement, gameplay, live and remote learning, and tons more.
EQ UNZIP-IT! TASK CARDS for Emotional Intelligence Training
Use Emotional Intelligence UNZIP-IT! TASK CARDS by Trainers Warehouse to identify and explore Emotional Intelligence competencies. Emotional Intelligence (a.k.a. EQ) is associated with five skills. Develop your teams’ EQ by facilitating conversations that help participants grow more aware of the... Read More
KudoGrams – Giving Kudos at Work
Giving Kudos at Work should be a daily practice. However, it’s also a great learning activity — a way to identify and magnify positive behaviors and growth opportunities in lived experiences. Use Kudo-grams for mindset courses, strength-based activities, warm-ups, and energizers, as kudo... Read More
Start-Stop-Continue-Change Ideas & Activities
Start-Stop-Continue-Change is a versatile training tool used throughout a learning event. Expert Trainer Nora Gerber was kind enough to share her facilitation notes with Trainers Warehouse. The prompts are packaged as pads of sticky notes from Trainers Warehouse, but you can create your own as well.... Read More
1-2-4-All Training Technique
I had the pleasure of co-facilitating a session with veteran trainer, Nora Gerber, who was kind enough to share some of her tricks of the trade. Nora applies the 1-2-4-All training technique to a variety of “task cards.” This active learning approach is a whole-brain processing tool that... Read More
Facilitating Jeopardy-style learning games 2.0
In a previous post, I shared the basics of facilitating a Jeopardy-like game. However, after a discussion with Learningware’s Dan Yaman, I wanted to offer a handful more tips to maximize the success of your learning reinforcement game. The #1 tip for facilitating Jeopardy-style learning games:... Read More
The Incredible Power of Joy in Training
Watching the politics of 2024 unfold, I’m struck by the incredible power of joy. Our world has been bereft of laughter and happiness for far too long. We have prioritized differences in perspective over our commonalities; attacked and criticized complete strangers over social media; and demoni... Read More
Training Tips from an A/C Outage
As much as we plan for the unexpected, with contingencies and what-if scenarios, it’s impossible to be ready for every situation, at every moment. During the latest heatwave, the A/C at our office went on the fritz. Oof! Inside temps began registering 85 degrees and seemed to climb by the mi... Read More
Take a Team Breath
I learned about the “team breath” at a recent conference. Well, maybe I didn’t just learn about it, as I’ve been practicing yoga for almost 7 years now. At yoga, classes typically open and close with a “cleansing breath.” In fact, at its core, yoga is a “bre... Read More
Diversity Games and Activities * Community Share
Our informal discussion about diversity training shed light on the resistance trainers face when conducting DEI training. We also pooled ideas for diversity training tips and activities that help lessen resistance, build understanding about the topic, and strengthen individual’s sensitivity to bot... Read More
Conversation Starters to Help Groups Open Up
A handful of online learning sessions with expert facilitators Amy Climer and Chad Littlefield added a few more tricks to my repertoire. The two modeled a handful of get ‘em talking techniques and conversation starters that I’ll be happy to replicate at my next session, live or online! Hopefully... Read More
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LEARNING FACILITATION TIPS
Browse through tons of tips and tools that cover all aspects for training. Sharpen facilitation skills by understanding, for instance, how to:
- Use card decks for metaphorical debriefs
- Deliver interactive training on a tight budget
- Integrate games into content delivery
- Draw on brain science to develop effective training techniques
- Put Carol Dweck’s Growth Mindset approach into action
- Draw out quiet learners and manage difficult participants
INSIGHTS, TEACHING TOOLS, & MORE
Beyond learning facilitation tips to help teachers and trainers hone their facilitation skills, Trainers Warehouse shares insights and product selection tools drawn from serving the training industry for over 30 years. While Trainers Warehouse sells 100s of training tools and toys on their e-commerce website, they share 1000s of free tips within this blog. Special interest categories include exercises and activities or popular training topics, as well as communication and relationship-building tools to help learners engage in meaningful conversations.
"EDUTAINMENT" GURU
Susan Landay, the President of Trainers Warehouse, graduated from Yale College, Kellogg Business School and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. She’s the perfect resource to help trainers and teachers balance fun and professionalism, education and entertainment. Her insightful thinking and careful research make the WorkSMART blog interesting and informative.