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LOGISTICS

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THESE SESSIONS

• Trainers

• Facilitators

• Presenters

• Instructional Designers

• Coaches

• Professors

• Teachers

• Anyone who uses Zoom (or other platforms) and wants them more interactive

DATES:

All sessions take place from 09h00 to 12h00 Eastern Time (New York time). You can sign up for any number of session, or take advantage of the who package and take them all!

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SERIES…

Other than the introductory session, which provides an overview of LOLAs, the what, why, when, and how to use them, all sessions provide a description of the activity type. Each will explore when you should choose to use the type of LOLA. For example, when you have content that is delivered via a lecture, use an interactive lecture activity. Or, when you disseminate content through a text, use a textra activity. Pretty obvious… right? But, structured sharing activities can my a bit more nuanced when deciding to use them. Same for puzzles, simulation games, etc. We will also dive into how to adapt these activities based on your objective(s) and also the logistics for your program. Finally, we will explore whether you conduct a debrief, and if so, how.

By the end of each session, you will have experienced at least five activities of the topic LOLA category.

DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TYPES OF LOLAs:

• OPENERS: Openers set a tone, quickly engage the participants, and most importantly jump start your topic. When done well, they introduce content and align expectations. They are not ice-breakers, which are often disconnected from your training purpose, but rather the first activity where learning begins to happen.

• INTERACTIVE LECTURE LOLAs: These LOLAs transform passive, one-way presentations into active exercises. Before, during, and after a lecture presentation, the facilitator conducts quizzes, challenges, projects, and discussions.

• STRUCTURED SHARING LOLAs: Structured Sharing LOLAs help the participants learn from each other and learn with each other. Structured sharing activities typically create a format for sharing, organizing, and evaluating the participants’ experiences, best practices, knowledge, and opinions.

• TEXTRA LOLAs: Textra LOLAs combine the eective organization of text materials with the motivational impact of games. The participants read text documents and play a game that uses peer pressure and peer support to encourage the recall and application of what they read.

• JOLTS: JOLT LOLAs are brief experiential activities that last between 1 and 3 minutes. They lull the participants into behaving in a conventional and comfortable fashion and then deliver a powerful wake-up call. They force the participants to reexamine their assumptions and revise their standard procedures.

• INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING LOLAs: Story LOLAs incorporate directional narratives in a LOT. In this approach, the participants may listen to stories and modify, expand, shrink, analyze, deconstruct, and role-play them. They may also create, share, and process their own stories.

• CARD GAME LOLAs: These LOLAs use decks of cards. Some are completely customized cards with content on each one. Others are simulations that use cards as the platform for the experience. Card Game LOLAs transfer the card-experience to a live-online setting.

• BOARD GAME LOLAs: Like card games, these LOLAs use board games as the learning platform. Some are generic game boards with several game frames where the trainer and designer insert their own content. Others take commercial board games and use them as learning simulations. And some are completely intact board games about specific topics. All can be played live, online.

• PRODUCTION SIMULATION LOLAs: Participants work in teams to produce an object. They have access a variety of learning resources. The objects are evaluated using a rubric.

• DEBRIEFING LOLAs: These LOLAs use a formal debriefing process for participants to reflect and internalize what they learned after a module or a full program. They explore how participants felt, what occurred, what they learned, how those lessons may be applied in real life, hypotheticals that explore other possibilities, and what will come next.

• CLOSERS and DEBRIEFING LOLAs: Closers are conducted at the end of a LOT in order to review (closer) the main points, tie up loose ends, plan for future action, celebrate successful completion, and organize networking activities. Debriefing LOLAs enable you to facilitate the lessons learned from activities delivered and ensure participants have internalized what you wanted them to leave knowing.

YOUR INSTRUCTORS:

Thiagi (aka Dr. Sivasailam Thiagarajan) has been designing and delivering training for the past 40 years since the early days of programmed instruction. An international authority on performance improvement, Thiagi has produced award-winning training materials for various corporations and nonprofit organizations around the world. Specializing in interactive techniques for training, Thiagi has designed hundreds of training activities, written over 50 books on the topic, keynoted training conferences, and conducted training workshops in more than 20 countries.

Matt Richter is the President of The Thiagi Group and the Co-Director of LDA (The Learning Development Accelerator), a professional membership group for people in the learning and development field. He is a facilitator, game designer, instructional designer, and management consultant. Matthew has consulted and delivered training with many organizations including Grant Thornton, Twilio, VMWare, SanDisk, Redwood Trust, CenturyLink, Imerys, EA, Microsoft, Carolina Power and Light, IGT, Cadence Design Systems, and Sony. His book, The Leadership Story: A New Model for Leadership was published in 2016.  In 2020, he co-authored, LOLA: Live Online Learning Activities with his partner, Sivasailam Thiagarajan (Thiagi). And Matt is both an <<auteur et intervenant>> teaching leadership at EMLyon, in France, as a part of their executive MBA program.