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4MAT 4Coaching: Designing, Coaching and Debriefing Engaging Practice Activities

2 day Live Course | $950
April 4-5, 2012 | Covington, LA
Early Bird Registration | $100 off
Promo Code: TRAINING3

Learn how to confidently coach learners on their application of the content being learned. Practice raising issues with learners and colleagues that invites productive dialogue. Practice designing activities that generate opportunity to create valuable feedback opportunities.




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Course objectives:
  • Create a learning environment that encourages feedback and healthy self-assessment

  • Raise issues in a productive manner

  • Use a simple 4-step model to coach learner practice

  • Choose appropriate activities to simulate real-world feedback opportunities

  • Coach common learning issues using proven feedback techniques

  • Develop self-assessment tools that focus the learner’s attention on the right performance factors

  • Set up front-line managers to support on-the-job coaching
You will learn how to:
  • Assessing your natural coaching style strengths

  • Discovering the most common barriers to effective coaching

  • Choosing the right practice activities

  • Engaging learners in practicing new skills

  • Designing Outcome-Based Practice Activities

  • Setting up activities effectively

  • Observing application

  • How to effectively coach and debrief practice

  • The 4 things you should be doing during learner practice

  • How to use questions to focus the learner’s attention during debriefing

  • How to create agreement that improvement is needed

  • How to give constructive peer: peer coaching

  • Strategies for gaining commitment

  • Setting up follow-up mechanisms

  • Generating solutions for common coaching scenarios

  • 25 Questions for guiding a coaching conversation

  • How to clearly define the criteria that will be used to evaluate practice application

  • Assessing your coaching using the 4MAT Coaching Assessment Tool

  • Interactive activity structures you can use to encourage self-assessment

  • 7 types of practice activity structures that work with any content

  • How to set up an on-the-job coaching team including front-line managers
Included in your tuition:
  • Participant Workbook

  • 4MAT® Training Style Inventory (TRSI®)

  • 4MAT® Coaching Guide

Train the Trainer Course

April 4-5, 2012 | Covington, LA
4MAT 4Business Design Studio
320-322 Courthouse Alley
Covington, LA 70433
866.888.4MAT

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Early bird registration:

Register 30 days before your workshop begins and receive $100 off your tuition. Simply redeem your promo code when you check out of the online store.

You will also receive the best-selling 4MAT instructional design book published by ASTD (American Society for Training and Development), Hold On, You Lost Me! Using Learning Styles to Create Training that Sticks co-authored by 4MAT Creator Dr. Bernice McCarthy and 4MAT 4Business CEO, Jeanine O’Neill-Blackwell.

“4MAT has been the key to creating connection and consistency throughout our education system. Our educators now share a common language for learning design. As a result, the skill and confidence level of both educators and learners has skyrocketed. The concept is brilliant and...makes the 4MAT system simple to understand and apply—a must for all trainers of learning-based companies.”
~Virginia Meyer, Vice President of Education, Aveda Corporation, a division of Estee Lauder

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