A few weeks ago, my colleague Erin Clarke, led a session at the Washington Banker’s Association’s annual conference for HR and training professionals. The session focused on new and unique activities to engage learners. As part of the session, Erin distributed a handout with activity instructions for five of the activities she demonstrated, and that handout can be found here. Of course, effective training is more than just an engaging activity.
On a recent podcast, I shared some thoughts on the differences between an “engaging” training and an “effective” training. As part of this conference workshop, Erin also touched on this point, mentioning that these may be engaging activities, but they’re not necessarily activities to be used universally. Rather, they should be used with intent and purpose, always connected to specific learning objectives.
Tags: adult learning • Instructional Design • learning and development • lesson plan design • training