TRAINING TECHNIQUES TO CHANGE YOUR STYLE OF COACHING ON THE JOB (1h 50m Learning Lab Tabletop/Group Exercise)

Are you interested in changing your style of coaching on the job?  Attend this session if you like to be actively involved in your learning.  Facilitator will lead participants in various individual and small group activities to explore how people learn.  

ACTIVITY:   personality test, strengths/weaknesses, personal coach, Spokes contributions to your life/job?

EFFECTIVE TRAINER;  Involve participants through: 

• Role playing, exercise, case study, demonstration, feedback (invite, believe, absorb)
• Knowledge of adult learner style/experience/others shared

 4 Learning styles- observe your participants

1. Activist: new, being involved, happy in limelight, prefer active, leadership role, doer, open to new stuff, joiners, social, positive
2. Reflectors:  observe, mirror others, good listeners, time to review, don’t like pressure, need reach decision own time, don’t like to be wrong, introspective
3. Theorists:  methodical, logistical thinking, answer questions, above and beyond, analytical, detached
4. Pragmatist:  KISS, eager to try now, bored with theory, experiment new ideas, act quickly, impulsive

ADULT LEARNER-

1. Need respect- acknowledge, thank you, equal, freely voice opinion
2. self directed- their expectations, input on topics, choose projects that interest them, actively involved, act as facilitator
3. goal- organized, clear, identify objectives up front, show how training help them reach goals,
4. relevant- reason to learn, relate to work,  valuable, relate to familiar setting first, anchoring /writing it down
5. practical- useful on job and personal life, stories relate to that
6. accumulated lifetime experience- relate new learning to their experience, draw out their knowledge.

Learners retain:  10% what they read, 20% of what they hear, 30% what they see, 50% what they see and hear, 70% what they say, 90% what they do

GENERATION ACTIVITY:

Involve participants through role playing, exercises, case study, demonstration, open to feedback, awareness of adult learner styles, Be  practical- useful on job and personal life, stories relate to that, accumulated lifetime experience- relate new learning to their experience, draw out their knowledge, let them work on projects reflect their interests, give them choice (standing vs. sitting down, 2 activity groups)