Stuck for new ideas in your training toolbox? Tired of using the same old activities? Keen to do less ‘chalk and talk’ and get your delegates involved and participating? If so, then take part in a creative workshop and master new experiential facilitation skills.
CPD Points: 7 CEUs
To register please contact Shadi on shadi@jvrafrica.co.za for Johannesburg based trainings and Alida on alida@jvrafrica.co.za for Cape Town based trainings.
Alternatively, you are welcome to check upcoming dates on our 2010 Training Schedule.
Training Event: Games for Creative Facilitation
Length of Training: 1 day
Training: CPD Workshop (Attendance Certificate)
Trainer: Fiona Ross, Kathy Knott and/or Adam Thomas
Exam: None
Assessment: None – exposure to two games: ‘Leaders in Action’ and ‘Culturewise’
Target Audience: Anyone with an interest in developing creative training and facilitation skills.
The workshop objectives are to:
- Spark creativity
- Create WOW moments
- Share tools and techniques
- Be a dynamic facilitator
Agenda
- Introductory game
- What is experiential learning?
- Technique for generating ideas
- Tea
- Experiential and selected use of the ’Leaders in Action’ game
- Small group creative exercise focusing on Trainer abilities
- Improv Recap
- Lunch
- Using Flip-vids
- Cash game – dollar auction
- Cryptograms
- Tea
- JOLT
- Art postcards – capturing action plans
Feedback from previous attendees:
- This course gives you the tools and techniques to make even the driest and dullest information come alive (Kate)
- I feel inspired & motivated to change the way I facilitate (Susan)
- Hugely energising; practical and applicable; Fun!; good networking opportunity; great content (Lesley)
- Great ideas to liven up your training. Give yourself a new energy and enthusiasm if you’ve been training the same material for a while. Learn ways to surprise and delight your delegates (Lindsay)
- Trainers EDGE has injected a whole lot of energy and ideas that I am definitely going to use to liven up my training sessions (Tumi)
- Enhanced my facilitation and interpersonal skills; learnt fantastic new fun exercises. Given me tools to re-energise my facilitation, ideas to improve my workshop processes and developed my skills and competence (Rob)
- Different from the norm; it “spices up” your training and adds energy (Emil)
If you have any further questions about this workshop, please contact us for more detail.
CV of the Trainers
Fiona Ross, co-founder of Learn to Lead, is an accredited assessor with Services SETA and their organization is SETA accredited. Fiona is an accredited game designer through NASAGA (North American Simulation and Games Association) , and works with a variety of mediums including industrial theatre, video, card and board games. Her background is in brand marketing, with some of her early facilitation experience gained through designing and leading creative idea generation processes during her time as a consultant at Added Value and Unilever. Fiona participated in a pre-conference ‘Design Games, Activities and Simulations’ workshop at NASAGA and attended Thiagi’s training programme in 2008.
Adam Thomas, a Director of Learn to Lead, has over eight years experience in the field of HR, Training and Development. Adam holds a Business Science degree from UCT, majoring in Organisational Psychology and Human Resources. Since graduating in 1998, he has worked as an HR Manager, Training Performance Consultant, and facilitator in the corporate sector in the UK, Europe and South Africa.
Both Fiona and Adam are NASAGA members and have recently attended the NASAGA conference in Washington in October 2009.
Kathy Knott qualified as a counselling psychologist at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg in 1999 after completing her Masters of Social Science. She is registered with the Health Professional Council of South Africa (HPCSA), and is an Associate at JvR. Kathy manages the Training department at JvR, and consults to organizations often working on leadership development and capacity building projects. She is an MBTI trainer and is always looking for new and innovative ways to bring training to life. She feels that the most effective learning is a healthy mix between education and entertainment – ‘edutainment’, hence her interest in the use of games in facilitation and training.
