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4MAT 4Business® Newsletter
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 Engage: 6 Interactive Training Opening Activities |
What does a great opener to a learning experience look like? The 4MAT design model defines four critical parts of the learning cycle: Engage, Share, Practice and Perform. What does success look like in Engage? First, let’s look at what it is happening in this critical step of the training experience:
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Engage: The question is “Why?”
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Learners connect personally to the content being delivered.
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Learning Climate |
Easy, open and inviting; focused on listening.
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Dialogue, discussion and reflection.
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You Know it’s Effective When
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Learners are sharing personal and meaningful insights related to the content. The learners are engaged and ready to learn.
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Source: McCarthy and O’Neill-Blackwell, Hold On, You Lost Me! Use Learning Styles to Create Training that Sticks, ASTD Press, p 25.
How do we, as trainers, create the desired climate? What kind of activities should we use to generate insights and create meaningful dialogue. Here are 6 activities that work with any content. You can download the full instructions in the facilitator guide here »
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Expectations (or Big Questions) Exercise
Ask learners to reflect on their expectations for the course. In small groups, have teams share their expectations. Prepare a large flip chart on a visible wall. Record all responses. Link responses to the agenda for the day.
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Expectations Exercise (Elearning)
You can lead an expectations exercise in an online course. Using a whiteboard with a numbered grid, assign participants to write expectations in an assigned grid section.
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Timelines
Using a visual timeline, learners plot experiences that have shaped their perception or current understanding of the content being shared.
“Think about the people, events and experiences that have shaped your definition of effective leadership. On the timeline, make note of these events and be prepared to share in your table group."
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The One Thing
Show “The One Thing” clip from the movie, City Slickers. Encourage participants to reflect on:
- " ... the one thing, which, if accomplished, would generate the biggest results."
- " ... the one thing we should be talking about today."
- " ... the one question which, if answered, would make the biggest impact."
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Partner Interviews (Elearning)
In the chat, participants interview an assigned partner with the task of discovering key areas of interests around this topic. On the whiteboard, partners write down what they discovered about their partner’s interests in the course topic.
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Visual Metaphors
Ask the participants to create a visual metaphor which relates to the concept using an item in the room.
For example, if you are teaching a course on leadership development, you might choose the concept of "empowerment". Learners will reflect on "empowerment" and pick an item in the room that illustrates the concept of "empowerment" to them. A learner might choose a light bulb in the room ("illuminating the way") or a cup of coffee ("energizing others") to share their understanding of the concept.
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5-Part 4MAT Web Class Begins July 14, 2010
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Hold On, You Lost Me! Web Series
July 14, 2010 - September 8, 2010
10:30 am Central
Join 4MAT 4Business for 5 web workshops to put the best-selling book, Hold On, You Lost Me, into action. In this series, you will learn and apply the 4MAT 8-step process for designing effective training.
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Live Class: Mastering Training Design |
Mastering Training Design
August 18 – 20, 2010
Covington, LA (50 minutes outside of New Orleans)
In this 2.5 day workshop, you’ll explore how to create dynamic learning that delivers results consistently. You’ll borrow tools from media artists, engineers and entertainers to complement your design program. In a series of fun, hands-on exercises you’ll discover what makes each learning style tick. You’ll build an inventory of training activities and delivery techniques you can use with any content.
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4MAT 8-Steps to Design
June 24, 2010
10:30 am Central
Explore the 4MAT model. First, you will identify the four learning preferences and how they align within the Learning Cycle. We will overlay right-and left-mode processing and discover an 8-step model for building brain-based learning.
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