Team KAM

1. Team KAM Alex Davani Katie McLaughlin Maura stackley

2. Gaining Leadership of the Training Group Chapter 12

3. Important Aspects of Gaining Leadership Within a Training Group • Setting appropriate group norms • Controlling the timing and pacing of the program • Getting the group’s attention • Communicating your message effectively • Dealing with problem participants

4. Helpful norms for an active training environment • Encourage participants to express themselves honestly • Ask that confidentiality be respected • Urge risk taking • Expect participation from everyone • Promote the value of feedback • Require participants to sit in different spots • Reassure participants that their questions are welcomed • Insist on punctuality

5. Class norms for group activities? • Raising your hand • Take everyone’s thoughts into account • Respect everyone’s opinions • Everyone participate • Don’t talk when someone else is talking • Be open minded • Provide a group represntative

6. Negative Behaviors to watch for • Monopolizing • One-upping • Complaining • Intellectualizing • Withdrawing • Arguing • Questioning • Clowning • Distracting

7. Creating Opening Exercises Chapter 3

8. Icebreaker Activity

9. 3 Important Goals of Creating Opening Exercises • Team building-help participants become acquainted • On-the-spot assessment- attitudes, knowledge, experience • Immediate learning involvement-draw participants and introduce course

10. Rotating Trio Exchange Team building Immediate learning involvement On-the-spot assessment

11. 10 Methods to get Everyone Involved • Open discussion • Response cards • Polling • Subgroup discussions • Partners • Go-arounds • Games • Calling on the next speaker • Panels • Fishbowls

12. Experiential Learning Approaches Chapter 6

13. Experiential Learning Approaches • Role playing – scripting, staging, processing, and video feedback • Games and simulations – encourage to confront attitudes and values • Observation • Mental imagery • Writing tasks • Action learning

14. Role Playing • Scripting – develop roles/situation with drama • Staging – format for role play, regardless of content • Processing – reflective discussion or performance feedback • Video Feedback – prior, during, and after taping

15. Games and Simulations • Help grasp total course content • Help test the behavioral style & performance • Used to create performance challenges

16. Game Time!

17. Observation • Designing – the key is for the experience to be active rather than passive • Formatting • Use observers as the audience • Assign observers to small groups • Fishbowl format

18. Mental Imagery • 6 kinds of imagery experience • Visual • Tactile • Olfactory • Kinesthetic • Taste • Auditory • Guidelines

19. Writing Tasks • 5 tips to keep in mind • Help participants to get in the mood • Make sure instructions are crystal-clear • Arrange a good work environment • Allow enough time for writing • Allow enough time for feedback

20. Action Learning • In-Basket Assignments • Research Projects • Field Observation • Teaching Projects • Task Force Projects

21. Questions?