Professional Development for Trainers
"Your highly professional materials really speak to how you value the information and your participants. You created a space for all levels of experience; that was awesome. You have such a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw from – people who attend your sessions are lucky to access it."
Tara Connolly, Knowledge Exchange Specialist
As Thomas Edison found that “Genius was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”, in the opinion of many, so it is with creativity. And, you either use your creativity or you lose it! So, let’s start with rolling up our sleeves and flexing our creative muscles. We will then apply our creative powers to different training aspects.
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A workshop developed specifically for trainers where facilitation techniques are explained. We then demonstrate how these techniques are applied in training sessions. If you are looking for richer training sessions, integrate facilitation to training – therein lies the "magic!".
"Denise! Thank you so much for the past two day training session teaching us the Magic of Facilitation. I must thank you for one of the most inspiring and motivating work-related experiences I have had this past year. An amazing learning experience that will remain with me for a very long time."
Angela Florcke, Florcke and Associates
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A discovery of exercises that facilitators use in involving people. Start with what learners know and have experienced, encourage reflections leading to discoveries. By practicing variations to facilitation activities and adapting these techniques to your own subject matters, you can reach targeted objectives with relative ease. This will create an exhilarating energy that you will learn, in the second half of this session, to guide and capitalize.
On the one hand, we seek active participation, and on the other hand, we manage reluctances and activities to ground learning.
"Interesting, innovative! Gave me the tools to be “invincible”. The workshop exceeded my expectations." C. Sawh
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It is one thing to have knowledge, and quite another to be able to apply it – and it helps if, first, you can remember it! Active learning, or experiential learning, is usually thought of as hands-on learning. However, it goes beyond simply being more active and involved physically. We will learn about various exercises to stimulate the memory and then adapt activities used by facilitators to involve participants and "facilitate" the learning.
"Your energy, your leadership! You are the best trainer I have seen in a long time. I take away may tips to share with all my future students. So, I say thanks in the name of all future students." Pratt & Whitney Canada
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Stay tuned for Webinars Fall 2015!
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One of the tasks of a trainer is to administer a certain control, staying on track with the agenda and the timing, for example. In this capacity, they take on the responsibility of overseeing equal participation, gently holding people back at times. We will start at square one, where an ounce of prevention has considerable worth. Even with the best of intentions and great preparation, there can be behaviours that make it more trying. Sometimes, disturbances can cause havoc on the agenda, on the group, or on you, the trainer.
Let us thus consider: How to deal with difficult behaviours that emerge in training groups?
"All objectives were met. I learned how to deal with difficult behaviours through the use of different teaching activities. Excellent and useful presentation! Merci."
A. Gallant, Pratt & Whitney Canada
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