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Add vitality to your training sessions and meetings by incorporating tricks, icebreakers, energizers and experiences. Learn existing engagement tools and how to design your own customized tools for your specific application. This class is guaranteed to improve your training ROI.
  Upon completion the learner will:
  • Correlate learning retention for the adult learner with participant engagement.
  • Gain exposure to multiple examples of icebreakers, energizers and experiences.
  • Expand on current knowledge of training aid sources and their applications.
  • Identify opportunities to incorporate learning experiences in training design along with effective debrief.
  • Be able to identify the elements of effective icebreakers, energizers and experiences.
  • Practice the use of a design model for icebreakers and energizers.

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Add some zing, vitality and energy to your training sessions and/or informational meetings by incorporating tricks, icebreakers, energizers and experiences.

Research related to how adults learn clearly indicates vastly improved training content retention and/or meeting participation when attendees are engaged and focused. In this class you'll learn new engagement tools to take home, along with a process to design your own customized tools.

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Benefits and Learning Outcomes

  • Correlate learning retention for the adult learner with participant engagement.
  • Gain exposure to multiple examples of icebreakers, energizers and experiences.
  • Expand on current knowledge of training aid sources and their applications.
  • Identify opportunities to incorporate learning experiences in training design along with effective debrief.
  • Be able to identify the elements of effective icebreakers, energizers and experiences.
  • Practice the use of a design model for icebreakers and energizers.

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This program can be applied toward the:

Notes
This elective can be applied to the Master Certificate in Training.
 
  Sessions  
Wed., June 4, 2014
8:30am-4:30pm
Location: UWM School of Continuing Education (Click link for directions)
Instructor: Rodney (Buck) Hillestad
Fee: $345
CEUs: 0.7
Program No. 7710-6006
Registration Deadline: Wed., May 28, 2014
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For more information, contact:
  Mary Pick, Program Manager, mpick@uwm.edu, 414-227-3353
 
 


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