We have scheduled a bunch of Live Online Training programs over the coming months. All are delivered via Zoom. All of the programs are full-day sessions. Times are set to New York. Each link will take you to a  description with dates, times, price, & registration. Hope to see you there!

1️⃣ THIAGI’S TOP TEN TRAINING ACTIVITIES (February 18: 06:00 AM- 02:00 PM EST)

Thiagi and Matthew Richter have been designing and delivering training activities for the past 20 years. Rather than specializing on one type of activities, they experiment with different types in order meet the needs and preferences of different training objectives and participants. 

Some of these activities are card games. Some are board games. Some are simulations and roleplays. These activities accommodate different numbers of players from 1 to 100. The time required for the activities range from 5 minutes to 5 weeks. These games have been field tested in corporate settings around the world to train people on principles and procedures related to technical training, management training, leadership development, and sales training.

All these training games have two features: Once you learn to design and conduct the game that deals with a specific topic, you can use the structure of the same game to work with other topics. All the games are designed to be facilitated easily and modified to suit the local constraints, resources, and requirements. 

This 1-day, virtual workshop, delivered using ZOOM, features ten different training games— the ten best. How do we know they are the best? Because our clients, our customers, and our own facilitators have told us. Some of these activities can be used to teach deadly, dull, boring content. All incorporate built-in needs analysis, letting the facilitator know what level of expertise and experience the participants should have. 

During the program, we will use the same activities we are providing you to teach many important concepts and skills related activity-based instruction. By the end of the day, you will learn to

  1. Select the most appropriate type of activity

  2. Facilitate this activity with your own participants

  3. Adapt the activities to meet your training objectives

  4. Modify the activities based on logistical constraints and learner needs

2️⃣ JOLTS: WAKE UP AND ENGAGE YOUR PARTICIPANTS (February 25, 2021: 06:00 AM- 02:00 PM EDT)

A jolt is a brief experiential activity that delivers a wake-up call to the participants. The impact of a jolt forces the participants to re-examine their assumptions and change their behaviors. This live online workshop will demonstrate our collection of powerful jolts, each lasting for a few minutes but providing insights for lengthy debriefing and lifelong application. Through a hands-on approach, you will also learn how to select, conduct, and debrief this innovative training tool. Heck… we will even share with you the secret for creating your own jolts!

GOAL

  • Improve the instructional and motivational effectiveness of your training through short experiential activities followed by reflection and discussion.

  • Demonstrate a positive attitude toward the appropriate use of jolts as a flexible training tool.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

  1. Participate. Experience a variety of powerful jolts that enable the achievement of interpersonal principles and procedures.

  2. Define. Identify the critical features of jolts and explain their instructional and motivational effectiveness.

  3. Select and adapt. Identify training situations that lend themselves to the use of jolts. Select suitable jolts for these situations. Modify the jolts and debriefing questions to better suit your needs, resources, and constraints.

  4. Conduct. Get ready for the effective use of jolts in a training session. Conduct the jolts in an efficient and engaging fashion. Maximize learning application through debriefing discussions.

  5. Debrief. Use suitable debriefing questions and activities for reflecting on the jolt experience and sharing insights with each other.

3️⃣ MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS: 4 ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR MANAGING MORE EFFECTIVELY (March 4, 2021: 06:00 AM - 02:00 PM EST)

This 1-day live, online workshop focuses on four essential skill-sets of management. Each one uses well-researched and practical methodologies to increase your overall management prowess. You will receive tools you can immediately employ back on the job, as well as have access to several additional job aids and resources.

After completing the program, you will be able to apply four essential tools to your everyday management: delivering and receiving feedback, making more effective decisions, evaluating performance supportively, and creating a more intrinsically motivating work environment. 

WHAT IS PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT (A QUICK INTRODUCTION)

  • Identify the roles, responsibilities, and duties most managers have.

  • Customize a scorecard for evaluating your own managerial success. 

  • Apply the single most important management principle to all your decisions and interactions with team members. 

MAKE BETTER DECISIONS

  • Identify and implement a systematic six step model for making different types of decisions.

  • Identify the need or opportunity for making a decision.  

  • Analyze contextual information to frame the decision and specify the goals and objectives.

  • Generate alternative decisions and select the most appropriate one.

  • Plan to implement the selected decision.

  • Learn from reflecting on the decision process to improve the quality of future decisions.

CREATE A MORE INTRINSICALLY MOTIVATING ENVIRONMENT

  • Explore the differences and potential outcomes of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

  • Distinguish between the three different needs all people have that affect our motivation

  • Identify the impact rewards have on motivation and performance

  • Apply proven strategies for creating motivating environments

GIVE AND RECEIVE FEEDBACK

  • Improve professional competencies and business results of your employees by giving them timely and practical feedback.

  • Provide appropriate positive and constructive feedback.

  • Seek targeted feedback from your employees, colleagues, and superiors.

  • Analyze the feedback you receive to discard invalid items and transform valid items into action plans for professional improvement.

EVALUATE PERFORMANCE SUPPORTIVELY

  • Set effective performance goals.

  • Measure performance against those goals. 

  • Conduct performance analysis when outcomes aren’t where you want them to be. 

  • Distinguish between factors that cause or undermine performance and factors that support it.

4️⃣ HOW TO SPECIFY AND ACHIEVE AFFECTIVE OBJECTIVES IN TRAINING (March 11, 2021: 06:00 AM- 02:00 PM EST)

Trainers and managers have a slightly negative attitude toward changing the attitudes of learners and team members. Their hesitation is due to the feeling that specifying and achieving affective objectives requires complex competencies far beyond what are used in typical training and coaching techniques. However, as this workshop will demonstrate, the basic principles of persuasion and motivation can be easily acquired and applied through a series of hands-on training activities. 

HOW WILL YOU BENEFIT FROM THIS WORKSHOP?

After completing this workshop and the follow-up activities, you will plan and implement effective strategies for specifying and achieving affective objectives related to training topics and workplace results.

WHAT SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE WILL YOU ACQUIRE FROM THIS WORKSHOP?

  1. Specify different types of affective objectives related to training topics, workplace practices, and organizational values. 

  2. Construct suitable instruments for reliably measuring the achievement of affective objectives. 

  3. Identify indicators of positive affective objectives by conducting goal analysis. 

  4. Specify different types of affective objectives related to different levels in the taxonomy. 

  5. Specify affective goals in terms of engagement, learning, application, and producing results. 

  6. Select and design training activities to effectively achieve affective objectives. 

  7. Use appropriate techniques for increasing the participants’ drive to achieve affective objectives. 

  8. Recall, select, adapt, and apply evidence-based principles to influence and persuade the participants to achieve affective objectives. 

5️⃣ JOLTS: RÉVEILLEZ ET ENGAGEZ VOS PARTICIPANTS ! (16 et 17 mars 2021 de 12h à 15h30)

Une “jolt” (secousse ou choc en français) est une courte activité provoquant une prise de conscience chez les participants. Ce type d’activité pousse les participants à la réflexion, à la révision de leurs présuppositions et les amènent à changer leurs attitudes et leurs comportements. 

D’une durée souvent inférieure  à 3 minutes, une jolt offre toutefois de nombreux éléments de discussion pour un débriefing riche, la clé pour un ancrage durable.

L’impact d’une jolt peut donc être très puissant et c’est ce qui en fait un outil d’animation incontournable pour tout facilitateur.trice voulant améliorer l’efficacité de ses formations ! 

Durant cet atelier en ligne, vous expérimenterez de nombreuses jolts. À travers une approche pragmatique, vous apprendrez comment sélectionner, animer et débriefer ces activités particulières . Et cerise sur le gâteau, nous partagerons également avec vous le secret pour créer vos propres jolts !

OBJECTIFS SPÉCIFIQUES AU PROGRAMME :  

  1. Participez. Expérimentez de nombreuses jolts sur des thèmes variés.

  2. Définissez. Identifiez les composantes essentielles d’une jolt et comprenez leur efficacité d’un point de vue de la conception pédagogique et motivationel.

  3. Sélectionnez et adaptez. Identifiez les situations de formations qui se prêtent à l’utilisation de jolts. Sélectionnez les jolts pertinentes pour ces situations. Modifiez ces jolts et les questions du débriefing pour les adapter à vos besoins, ressources et contraintes spécifiques.

  4. Animez. Préparez-vous à utiliser les jolts de manière efficace durant une session de formation. Animez de manière engageante et efficiente. Favorisez l’apprentissage et l’ancrage à travers le débriefing.

  5. Débriefez. Choisissez les questions et activités de débriefing appropriées pour permettre la réflexion, faciliter les échanges et les partages  autour de l’experience de la jolt. 

6️⃣ THE INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED LEARNING CONFERENCE (March 23-25, 2021)

OVERVIEW

Interactive techniques refers to the use of activities when delivering training. Activities may include simulations, jolts (see an entire conference session on Jolts), interactive lectures, structured sharing, games, and many more. So, ITIL will equip you with strategies to make your training/teaching interventions more interactive, engaging, and effective. Each session is 75 minutes long and brings you tested and relevant elements. This conference is dedicated to the design of activities, their delivery, and the overall evaluation of your training package. Our hope is you will leave the conference with an improved toolkit containing interactive approaches you can leverage immediately in your own trainings, strategies for better instructional design, and templates and best practices for evaluating your work before, during, and after your programs.

7️⃣ JOLTS: RÉVEILLEZ ET ENGAGEZ VOS PARTICIPANTS ! (7 et 8 avril 2021 de 12h à 15h30)

Une “jolt” (secousse ou choc en français) est une courte activité provoquant une prise de conscience chez les participants. Ce type d’activité pousse les participants à la réflexion, à la révision de leurs présuppositions et les amènent à changer leurs attitudes et leurs comportements. 

D’une durée souvent inférieure  à 3 minutes, une jolt offre toutefois de nombreux éléments de discussion pour un débriefing riche, la clé pour un ancrage durable.

L’impact d’une jolt peut donc être très puissant et c’est ce qui en fait un outil d’animation incontournable pour tout facilitateur.trice voulant améliorer l’efficacité de ses formations ! 

Durant cet atelier en ligne, vous expérimenterez de nombreuses jolts. À travers une approche pragmatique, vous apprendrez comment sélectionner, animer et débriefer ces activités particulières . Et cerise sur le gâteau, nous partagerons également avec vous le secret pour créer vos propres jolts !

OBJECTIFS SPÉCIFIQUES AU PROGRAMME :  

  1. Participez. Expérimentez de nombreuses jolts sur des thèmes variés.

  2. Définissez. Identifiez les composantes essentielles d’une jolt et comprenez leur efficacité d’un point de vue de la conception pédagogique et motivationel.

  3. Sélectionnez et adaptez. Identifiez les situations de formations qui se prêtent à l’utilisation de jolts. Sélectionnez les jolts pertinentes pour ces situations. Modifiez ces jolts et les questions du débriefing pour les adapter à vos besoins, ressources et contraintes spécifiques.

  4. Animez. Préparez-vous à utiliser les jolts de manière efficace durant une session de formation. Animez de manière engageante et efficiente. Favorisez l’apprentissage et l’ancrage à travers le débriefing.

  5. Débriefez. Choisissez les questions et activités de débriefing appropriées pour permettre la réflexion, faciliter les échanges et les partages  autour de l’experience de la jolt.