Transcript Cool Training Ideas Examples & Tips

Cool Training Ideas
Examples & Tips
Israeli Training Community Meeting
May 2007
Amir Elion
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On Today’s Menu
Part A: Sample Creative Ideas you may
use in any training you do
Part B: Tools for creating more cool
training ideas by yourselves
What Else?
Have fun! Get to know cool people!
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Part A
Creative Training Ideas
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Example 1 – Cool Content
Looking for that training ace?
Unique to you and no-one else?
Start rhyming and humming your line,
Even boring subjects will turn divine.
At first you may find it clumsy or hard,
Push forward and walk that extra yard,
And then you’ll be something else, no fear,
One of a kind – a Training Shakespeare!
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Example 1 – Rhyme your Content
Uses & Benefits:
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Content has better “flow” and will be more
easily remembered
Especially appropriate for talking about
vision and values
May balance “heavier” content such as
financial or critical subjects
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Change the wording of a familiar song
Compose music for your “theme” text
Give participants a CD with a recording of
your training poems
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Example 2 – Cool Structure
Make more than one
“ending” to your training,
and let the audience choose
the possible continuation
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Example 2 – Split Structure
Uses & Benefits
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Audience is more involved
Trains participants to be proactive
Chosen end is most relevant option
Especially good when discussing options
or several possible scenarios
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You may or may not trace back to cover all
options later
Discuss why the group mad a specific choice
Let participant offer even more directions
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Example 2 – Split Structure
So…make a choice now…
Which cool idea do you wish to see?
3. Creative training medium
4. Creative Audience participation
5. Creative training atmosphere
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Example 3 – Creative Medium
Man am I bored…
This Audience makes me sleep…
Oops...
Now the trainer will shut up…
Does anyone want to say what they
think of this idea?
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Example 3 – Comic “Bubbles”
Uses & Benefits
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Can be used to present an “inner voice”
that raise dilemmas, or encourages
response
Adding humor to the training
For challenging your major Paradigm
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Uses real “demonstration-like” banners
Give the banners to one/more participants in
advance to be raise on your mark
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Example 4 – Audience Participation
Task:
In groups of 3-5 people, you have 10
minutes to invent a slogan for the
Israeli Training Community meetings
for year 2007.
Send the slogans to my mobile
phone by instant text message
(SMS).
My number is: 054-8883094
The best slogan will win a reward!
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Example 4 – Participation through SMS
Uses & Benefits
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Two-way communication with large
audience
May be used for a quick poll or survey
Possibly – anonymous feedback
Great for quick contest or test
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Collect all answers and send to the participants
later
Ask them to SMS each other
Ask them to SMS someone outside the training
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Example 5 – Cool Atmosphere
Welcome to the training
community traveling movie theater
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Example 5 – Cinema Atmosphere
Plan a training atmosphere of
“Going to the movies”:
1. Give participants popcorns
2. Arrange the chairs like in the
cinema
3. Split the training into “scene
A”, “scene B”…
4. Use heroes or movie-stars
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Example 5 – Cinema Atmosphere
Uses & Benefits
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Starts you off with a positive and fun
feeling
The training “plot” may be easier to
remember
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Uses participants as heroes and co-stars
Add movie background music
Try to think of the training in cinematic terms –
screenplay writing, plot, heroes, props, lighting
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End of Part A
To be continued…
For more creative ideas for
training or presentations see:
http://www.best100ideas.com/ideas01.shtml
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