What's Missing? This Ready-To-Go activity, What's Missing? is a great way to review by asking learners to create an example that is almost right, then challenge another team to spot what’s missing and improve it. It works well in face-to-face and … [Continue reading] about What’s Missing? (Review)

Pause For Visuals This Ready To Go trainer technique, Pause For Visuals, is simple, but it’s something we can easily forget when we’re facilitating. Imagine you display a new PowerPoint slide containing a diagram, give learners a handout or … [Continue reading] about Pause For Visuals (Good Trainer Practice)

Pause This week’s Ready To Go trainer technique, Pause, is a simple way to get learners to stop what they’re doing without actually saying “Stop.” Typically, when we want learners or teams to stop and listen during an activity, or because the … [Continue reading] about Pause (Good Trainer Practice)

Ask, Answer, Add This Ready To Go activity, Ask, Answer, Add is a great learner-centred application/consolidation review.  Ideal for mid-afternoon. Works best for face-to-face training Activity Flow Mid-afternoon or towards the end of the … [Continue reading] about Ask, Answer, Add (Good Trainer Practice)

Make It Worse! This Ready To Go activity, Make It Worse! is a great way to turn traditional Idea Generation on its head by asking learners to do the exact opposite of what they would normally do. Instead of asking “How could we make this better?”, … [Continue reading] about Make It Worse! (Idea Generation Activity)

Challenge Exchange This Ready To Go activity, Challenge Exchange, is a great way to get learners thinking about a specific challenge they face in relation to the workshop content and to act as a consultant for another learners challenge.  It works … [Continue reading] about Challenge Exchange (Open and Close Combined)

How This Will Help Me This Ready To Go activity, How This Will Help Me, is a great way to help learners see the relevance and practical value of a piece of content before they explore it.  Great for buy-in. Works for all forms of … [Continue reading] about How This Will Help Me (Opening)

Jargon Detectives This Ready To Go activity, 'Jargon Detectives', is a fun way to review jargon and/or technical terms related to the workshop content.  Ideal for just after lunch. Works best for face-to-face training. Activity Flow You can … [Continue reading] about Jargon Detectives (Review)

Connection Before Content This Ready To Go ‘good practice’ technique, Connection Before Content, is such an easy thing for us trainers to do, yet it's often overlooked. And despite taking only a few seconds, it can have a huge impact on your … [Continue reading] about Connection Before Content (Good Practice)

A Sense Of Wholeness This Ready To Go activity, A Sense Of Wholeness, is a great close to help learners pull all their learning, feelings and actions together. Works for all formats of training, including eLearning. Activity Flow As part of … [Continue reading] about A Sense Of Wholeness (Close)

Essence This Ready To Go ideas, Essence … is a great way to open either an entire workshop or a specific piece of content.  It helps learners drill down to the 'heart' of the content by keeping just a few key words that help define it. Works for … [Continue reading] about Essence (Opening – Workshop or Module)

What, Where, When This Ready To Go ideas, What, Where, When … goes beyond listing key take-aways by adding a commitment. Works for all formats of training. Typically, as part of our workshop close, we ask learners to look back through their … [Continue reading] about What, Where, When (Close – Commitment)

Mission Accomplished This Ready To Go activity, Mission Accomplished … helps learners focus throughout the workshop on something key they want from their training. Works for all formats of training including eLearning. Activity Flow Before … [Continue reading] about Mission Accomplished (Ongoing thought workshop)

Our Hand of Learning This Ready To Go activity, Our Hand of Learning, is a great way to include everyone in the overall opening of their workshop.  It also acts as part of the overall close (and also opens and closes a training loop). Works for … [Continue reading] about Our Hand of Learning (Workshop Opening)

Learners Create Their Own Acronym This Ready To Go activity, Learners Create Their Own Acronym, is a great way to help learners remember things like the steps in a process or a set of principles.  Even better, because learners leave having created … [Continue reading] about Learners Create Their Own Acronym (Transfer and Help Recall)