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Tips for Effective Training & Learning
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vol. LIII
June 2010
IN THIS ISSUE
TOOL: Integrate self-paced learning into your training day
TIP: Inspire success with friendly competition
TOY: Take a fiddle break
FEATURE: Marshmallow Challenge
TOOL OF THE MONTH
Big Bundle
 
give small groups some self-paced learning time
 
Integrate some self-paced learning into your training day. It's a great way for small teams to work together, for individuals to do some self-analysis, or to break up the day, so that you can spend some concentrated time with smaller groups.  There's a myriad of affordable eLearning tools available these days for both live and online training.

The Big 8 Game Show Bundle is a set of 8 easily-editable Flash templates that let you integrate your own content. If you've got Adobe Flash, but have never used it, this bundle is for you! No Flash, but still want to create some online exercises? Click here for lots more options.

Big 8 Game Show Bundle
List: $700.00  SALE PRICE: $650.00

good through 6/10/2010

TIP OF THE MONTH
Magnifi-man
 
assume the best.
get even better.
 

Create a little friendly competition in your longer training sessions.  Announce to the group that you'll award a Magni-man Superhero to the first participant who exceeds your expectations. Alert the recipient that both of you should be on the lookout for a next recipient. It's a great way to build teamwork and congeniality, and inspire success.
 
 TOY OF THE MONTH
Click Clack Molecule Ball 
take a fiddle break

Learning episodes have been shown to be more effective when students periodically take breaks -- even if only for 1 minute!

So if you're already using fiddles for kinesthetic learners, get more mileage out of them by instructing your group to take a fiddle break. Reactivate their brains by having them volley a Click Clack Molecule Ball behind their back or under their legs. The multi-colored plastic knobs of this manipulative make a very soft clicking noise when squeezed.
 
 
OUR ONLINE COMMUNITY
 

Linked In
We started a LinkedIn user Group so you can explore ways to improve the fun and effectiveness of your training.
 
Through this group, you can pose questions to training colleagues and share news. 
 
Click to join the group, Effective and Fun Training Techniques
 
If you're not yet a member of LinkedIn and would like to JOIN, click here. 
 
 

FEATURE: 
Icebreaker Challenge: 100 people. All indoors. Dynamite experience.
Marshmallow Challenge
 
It's a tall order to find an engaging experience for a large number of people that sets the tone for your learning event, is related to your topic area, and offers a "debrief-able" experience.
 
But several folks in our training community had some wonderful ideas that are worth sharing!

Tom Wujec's Marshmallow Challenge is one such exercise that was recently featured in a TED Talk. It is a remarkably fun and instructive design exercise that encourages teams to experience simple but profound lessons in collaboration, innovation and creativity.  Read more . . .


 
 

 
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