Interactive Training and Teaching Strategies

Seminar - Schiller & Mertens GbR

Facilitator Dr. Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan is the most prolific and creative designer of games and simulations in the world! His course is designed for trainers and educators who want to improve the effectiveness and engagement of the courses they teach. Primarily intended for corporate trainers the course deals with the design of different types of training activities that are integrated with different types of content presentation including lectures, reading materials, and interaction with others. The activities include board games, card games, improv games, instructional puzzle, simulation games, interactive stories, teamwork activities, and roleplaying.

Termin	Ort	Preis^*
05.06.2019- 07.06.2019	Berlin	1.452,01 €	jetzt buchen
03.06.2020- 05.06.2020	Berlin	1.452,01 €	jetzt buchen

^*Alle Preise verstehen sich inkl. MwSt.

Detaillierte Informationen zum Seminar

Inhalte:

Day 1 – An Introduction to the Design and Delivery of Learning Activities

Benefits. Do you have a love-hate relationship with games and activities? Relax! This workshop demonstrates how to encourage your participants to interact with each other, with the training content, and with you, the facilitator. You begin the design part of the session by exploring 60 different interactive strategies. You learn to rapidly create five of these powerful strategies. In the facilitation part of the session, you learn how to conduct these interactive exercises without losing control, wasting time, and being attacked by participants.

Objectives. Experience, select, create, and modify these types of training games

1. Openers (that set the right tone for your session)

2. Structured Sharing activities (that tap upon the wisdom of groups)

3. Interactive Lectures (that add interaction to reinforce expert presentations)

4. Textra Games (that are built around reading materials)

5. Jolts (that last for less than 3 minutes and provide powerful insights)

6. Closers (that bring your session to a meaningful conclusion)

Use flexible facilitation techniques that creatively blend such opposites as playfulness and seriousness, competition and collaboration, and action and reflection.

Transform participants from hell to your supportive allies.

Maximize reflection and insights through systematic debriefing.

Day 2 – How To Design and Use Different Types of Training Games and Learning Activities

Benefits. Can you count the benefits of using games and activities in your training sessions? Here’s a sample list: Games and activities attract and maintain the interest of the new generation that is entering the workplace in greater numbers. They cater to different types of intelligence and learning styles. They blend education and entertainment to keep participants engaged. They utilize the proven advantages of active participation. As they provide frequent opportunities for practice and feedback, they produce performance-based learning outcomes. They capture the advantages of teamwork and collaborative learning. They transform trainers into facilitators.

If you agree with all these statements but you are daunted by the delusion that it requires a lot of skills and time to design training games and learning activities, wait until you experience Thiagi’s framegame approach: How to design an effective training game in a matter of minutes.

Objectives. Explain the key characteristics, advantages, and limitations of games and activities in corporate training.

Identify the most appropriate type of training game to match the needs of specific performance objectives and participant characteristics.

Experience, explore, design, develop, evaluate, revise, and conduct these types of training games: 1. Board Games; 2. Card Games; 3. Improv Games; 4. Instructional Puzzles

Master and apply additional principles and procedures for designing these types of training games: 1. Closers 2. Interactive Lectures 3. Openers 4. Structured Sharing 5. Textra Games

Day 3 – How To Design and Use Different Types of Simulation Games

Benefits. Can you provide real-world learning opportunities – without incurring the risks and costs associated with them? Yes, you can – by using simulations. As simulation activities are very similar to on-the-job training, they ensure effective transfer and application of what you learn in the workshop to the work place. Simulation games provide immediate and realistic feedback. They reduce the risk to the players. Any inappropriate decision or action during the play results in negative consequences – but only in a make-believe environment. Simulation games also provide opportunities for repeated practice. You can discover important principles and practices through trial-and-error experimentation. Different types of effective simulation activities that focus on selected aspects of reality. This workshop provides you with skills associated with the design and delivery of a variety of simulation games.

Objectives. Experience, explore, design, develop, evaluate, revise, and conduct these types of simulation games: 1. Cash Games; 2. Interactive Stories; 3. Production Simulations; 4. Reflective Teamwork Activities; 5. Roleplaying; 6. Simulations with Playing Cards

Dauer:

3 days

Ziele/Bildungsabschluss:

The eight different ways of how people learn in our training sessions leverage multiple intelligences and cater to different learning styles:

1. Learn from experience. The workshops feature effective and enjoyable training games and learning activities.

2. Listen to interactive lectures. Our presentations are interspersed with interactive interludes.

3. Learn by doing. Our approach to activity-based learning ensures that you are able to use the techniques immediately.

4. Learn by reflecting. We use effective debriefing techniques to help you reflect on your experiences, gain valuable insights, and share them with each other.

5. Learn from each other. Our activities incorporate the power of mutual learning among collaborative teams.

6. Learn from the website. The website www.thiagi.com contains 200 ready-to-use training games and 2000 pages of practical advice.

7. Learn something new every month. As a participant our workshops, you receive a monthly online newsletter with new games and tools.

8. Learn continuously. We continue interacting with our participants through regular online activities.

Methoden:

Participants will be confronted with an outstanding unique training experience. These can be described via five features:

1. Accelerated. We keep the participants totally absorbed with a unique blend of expert presentations, reflective discussions, and creative activities.

2. Functional. We use the techniques that we teach. Just by watching us in action, participants pick up several effective strategies.

3. Authoritative. We know what we are talking about. Our workshops are based on sound theory, validated principles, and solid experience.

4. Practical. We have spent decades in organizational firing lines. We empower participants with realistic tools and techniques for immediate use in today’s workplace.

5. Fun. Our contagious enthusiasm, inclusive humour, and irreverent flexibility make participants enjoy every moment of the workshop.

Zielgruppe:

Trainers, teachers, professors, instructional designers, facilitators, managers, coordinators and performance consultants

Seminarkennung:

Thiagi 2020

Schlagworte:

Facilitation
Führungswissen
Praxistransfer
Trainerfortbildung

Referenten

Glenn Parker, author of Team Players and Teamwork: “Quite simply, Thiagi is the most prolific and creative designer of games and simulations in the world.” Mel Silberman, author of Active Training and 101 Ways to Make Training More Active: “Thiagi’s training games are always ingenious, easy to conduct, and open to several learning points.”

Herr Dr. Sivasailam Thiagarajan
Werdegang: Dr. Sivasailam “Thiagi“ Thiagarajan is the CEO of Thiagi, Inc. He is helping professionals improve their performance effectively and enjoyably. Internationally recognized as an expert in active learning, Thiagi has conducted training workshops in 24 countries. He has worked with more than 50 different organizations in high-tech, financial services, and management consulting areas. Thiagi has published 40 books, 90 games and simulations, and more than 200 articles.
This is what two experts have to say about Thiagi’s special talents in designing and delivering training games and learning activities:
Glenn Parker, author of Team Players and Teamwork: “Quite simply, Thiagi is the most prolific and creative designer of games and simulations in the world.”
Mel Silberman, author of Active Training and 101 Ways to Make Training More Active: “Thiagi’s training games are always ingenious, easy to conduct, and open to several learning points.”

Herr Priv.-Doz. Dr. ès sc. habil. Alexander Schiller
Als Referent tätig seit: 2011
Werdegang: Dr. ès sc. habil. Schiller is a full-time trainer for transferable skills with Schiller & Mertens. He is a “Certified Facilitator” with the Thiagi Group and member in the “Berufsverband für Training, Beratung und Coaching” (BDVT). Dr. Schiller gathered a 15-years teaching experience at LMU Munich (D), EPF Lausanne (CH), UC Santa Cruz (USA), and FSU Jena (D). The DFG Heisenberg fellow Dr. Schiller was a junior professor from 2009 to 2017. His experience as chemist, researcher and group leader enables him to focus on the real needs of scientists. Moreover, he uses examples from everyday life in the laboratory. From his courses given so far since 2011, graduate students, postdocs, junior group leaders, lecturers, professors, and directors feedback that they can directly apply in everyday life what they learned. He offers with Schiller & Mertens the full range of transferable skills courses, e.g. Good Scientific Practice, Communication, Presentation, Creativity, Leadership & Teams, Negotiation, Conflict & Collaboration, Academic Teaching, Career Development, Train-the-trainer …etc.
Dr. Schiller collaborated with Thiagi in designing this workshop “Interactive Training and Teaching Strategies” in Germany. He will also work with Thiagi as a co-facilitator during the workshops to ensure appropriate fit with the German cultural and organizational context and to provide additional coaching and editing help to the participants.

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"Interactive Training Strategies" with Thiagi as the most prolific and creative designer of games and simulations in the world. The 3 days workshop was perfect for trainers, professors, teachers, instructional designers, facilitators, managers, and performance consultants (June 7 to June 9 2017 at Chorin, Germany)
Quelle: Seminar 2017 in Chorin, Germany

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Interactive Training and Teaching Strategies with Dr. Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan, the most prolific and creative designer of games and simulations in the world! An exciting 3 days workshop for trainers, teachers, professors, instructional designers, facilitators, managers, coordinators and performance consultants … you will never forget! Facilitation strategies in training and teaching, interactive lectures, structured sharing activities, playing cards, game design, jolts, practical advice cards … … simply the best training and teaching tools! June 6 to June 8 2018 in Weimar (Grand Hotel Russischer Hof) € 1350,– (incl. 19% VAT, early bird reduction: 100,–)