5.4 THE SKILLS YOU NEED TO BE A GREAT BOSS: Engaging People With Team Learning

(EXTRACTION FROM TEAM MANAGEMENT: Developing Your Team at http://www.mindtools.com)

 

Active Training is an approach that involves game playing, role playing and other team activities.  In Active Training, the facilitator gives a short lecture.  Using games, role playing, or another structured activity, the group puts what they've learned into practice.

Creating an Effective Learning Experience

Instructor-led training is any kind of training that occurs in a training room, typically in an office, classroom, or conference room.  This form of training can have one or more instructors; and they teach skills or material to another person or group through lectures, presentations, demonstrations, and discussions.  It’s used to instruct a group.

Instructor-Led Training

Advantages

·        allows you to instruct a larger group at once

·        can use a variety of techniques such as role-playing, and exercises and games

·        learn better with instructor-led training o   share ideas, o   work in groups, and o   debate with their peers

·        useful for bonding, team building, and team problem solving

·        have greater long-term benefits than one-on-one or online training

·        opportunity to train without them being distracted by competing demands

·        useful when you're trying to keep training costs down

Disadvantages

·        hard to provide personalized instruction

·        challenging to accommodate different learning styles

·        slow learners may find it difficult to keep up with the pace of instruction

·        quicker learners may get bored, and may disengage

·        the need to wait for training (

·        the expense of training large numbers of people