You will learn activities for technical, management, sales, and interpersonal content. Thiagi and Matt will use these activities to also teach you how to adapt them to best fit your needs, handle difficult participants, and decide which activity will best work with your training objectives. By the end of the entire program, you will:

• Identify how to leverage activities to best meet your training objectives.

• Use more than 10 online activities to design and deliver your own live online training sessions, but get exposure to at least 50 activities (if you take the entire series).

• Apply different types of activities to your trainings: Improv, Job Aids, Physical LOLAs, Thought Experiments, Sampling LOLAs, Table LOLAs, Video LOLAs, Audio LOLAs, Object Simulations, Role play LOLAs, Graphic LOLAs, and Puzzles LOLAs.

• Reference and learn at your own pace, LOLAs from the previous 2024 LOLA series like: Openers and Closers, Structured Sharing, Textra Games, Interactive Lectures, Interactive Storytelling, Jolts, Production Simulations, Card & Board Games, Cash Games, Debriefing Games, and more.

• Modify these activities to meet the needs of your live online training sessions.

• Explore the differences and similarities between live online activity delivery and in-person activity delivery.

• Identify and mitigate risks associated with online delivery.

EMAIL Matt with any questions at matthew@thiagi.com.

PICK ONE SESSION… PICK TWO… TAKE THEM ALL!!!

Be sure to select the session you want when registering.

LOGISTICS

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…

Each session focuses on a specific LOLA strategy. During the session, we will explain what the strategy is, and how it helps you achieve your specific learning objective. Sessions walk the talk, using LOLAs in that LOLA category. We will model the activity, debrief how we used it, and explore how you might adapt it. These 12 LOLA strategies are 12 we have not delivered in the past as a part of this series. So, it is all new stuff! If you have take previous LOLA programs with us… these will complement, but not repeat. If you have never take a LOLA session with us, you will get all of these, plus access to the content from our previous 2024 series.

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:

Improv LOLAs are activities adapted from improvisational theater. The actors do not use a script but create the dialogue and action as they perform a skit to master skills in such areas as creativity, collaboration, communication, and change.

A Job-Aid Application involves supplying participants with copies of a job aid for performing a specific procedure. Different participants learn different steps and organize themselves into teams to share their step and learn the other steps. 

A Physical Response LOLA involves the participants using parts of their body in responding to questions or instructions. 

Thought Experiment LOLAs involve guided visualizations in which individual participants mentally rehearse new behaviors or hold imaginary dialogues. Combined with self-reflection, these activities result in increased self-awareness.

A Sampling LOLA involves a collection of different examples (such as e-mail subject lines, conference session descriptions, or lead paragraphs). Participants analyze the samples and apply their discoveries to create and use a checklist to create new samples that meet their needs. 

Table Construction LOLAs help participants to learn from reviewing tables of information and recalling useful facts, discovering interesting relationships, and predicting outcomes. 

Video LOLAS enhance the instructional value of training videos by requiring the participants watch a video and take part in an activity that reviews and applies new concepts and skills. 

Audio LOLAs  primarily depend on recorded audio messages  to provide the training content, structure the training activity, and collect the participants’ responses. Think of podcasts and other audio-based content sources.

Object Simulation LOLAs provide the participants with convenient graphic objects for simulating procedures and principles.

Role Play LOLAs involve the participants in assuming and practicing various interpersonal engagements. 

Graphic LOLAs incorporate photographs, paintings, drawings, or diagrams as essential instructional elements. Some graphic LO LAs require the participants to create these graphics. 

Puzzle LOLAS incorporate different types of word, number, or graphic puzzles to entice the participants to use their knowledge of the training topics to solve them and strengthen their mastery of the training objectives. 

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). Most recently, the two published Interactive Techniques for Learning. Matt is both an <<auteur et intervenant>> teaching leadership at EMLyon, in France, as a part of their executive MBA program.