Stop telling, Design an experience using six principles of brain science
"Is this clear?" As a trainer, I asked numerous times. However, I tried to fix the wrong problem: I must not have told them clearly enough. In reality, my problem was that was I telling. After understanding how people learn best from Training from the Back of the Room by Sharon Bowman, it's clear our current approach was insufficient. Lecturing others or simply stating “you’re now certified”; rarely gets the intended results. People are skeptical about something until they experience it. Join us in this experiential workshop to design and engage first-hand in the power of using exercises to experience a key value/message. Together, we will dissect and explore interactive exercises to gain insights on how they deliver important learnings including self-organization, Psychological safety, communication, wisdom of the crowd, vulnerability, and responding to change. Leave with tools that you can apply tomorrow to stop telling people and start engaging and having your audience experience
Outline/Structure of the Workshop
5 mins - Fast pass on how workshops and trainings make the audience feel?
10 mins - Talking trumps listening
10 mins - Movement trumps sitting
10 mins - Different trumps same
10 mins - Writing trumps reading
10 mins - Images trumps words
10 mins - Shorter trumps
10 mins - Audience design a small interactive workshop in groups
15 mins - Each group delivers a 2 min training
5 mins - Q&A and conclusion
We are experienced trainers delivering workshops and public classes, so the above is a representative workshop of what will be delivered, but we can adjust based on number of attendees and groups
Learning Outcome
- - Explain why experiential learning is more powerful than reading/hearing
- - Facilitate six tools/exercises to provide key learnings
- - Learn facilitation techniques to debrief exercises for critical learning retention
Target Audience
Trainers, Coaches, ScrumMasters, Executives
Prerequisites for Attendees
None! Bring an open mind and we'll go on a fun learning adventure together! Everything you need will be provided in the workshop.
Video
Links
Co-presented "3 ways of DevOps" at Agile Alliance 201, San Diego
Co-presented "3 ways of DevOps" at Scrum Alliance 2018, London
Presented "4 horsemen of user stories" at Scrum Alliance 2019, Austin
Presented "Roles of information radiators in Agile and feedback loops in DevOps" at Agile 2019 Washington DC
Presented several topics, including this one at NYC scrum user group and other internal company workshops
Anil and Arundhati are certified Trainers of the Training from the Back of the Room, who have delivered several paid public classes on this topic.
Arundhati's presentation experience
Women In Agile @Agile Alliance Agile2019 Washington D.C, USA (audience size 300+)- Talk on Drawing from Psychotherapy to enrich Agile Coaching - http://bit.ly/WomenInAgileTalkWashingtonDC
Agile Leadership Summit, Bangalore, India July 2019 (audience size: 40+) - Talk on Agile Coaches as Engagers - https://youtu.be/ppa4FzHmCkU
Theme & Framework Agnostic Conference (TAFAC 2019) - (audience size 80+) July 2019 Bangalore, India - Drawing from Co-active Leadership, Psychotherapy and TBR to enrich Agile Coaching - https://youtu.be/qzT3v9uiAlw
