Using Activities to Make Training Fun Courseware and Training Materials

What's included?
What’s included?
Available for delivery as a download from our web server or provided on CD, this courseware package includes the following resources to make your trainer’s life much, much easier.

This courseware package includes:

	Student Manual. Fully customisable. May be opened in any wordprocessor and changed to meet your exact needs.
	Trainer manual. Fully customisable with additional information for trainers.
	Ice breakers and class activities. Fully customisable. Delivered as a folder full of activities for your students.
	Content overview. Fully customisable. Comprehensive course overview to help you market your course to your customers.
	PowerPoint presentations. Fully customisable. Complete set of PowerPoint slides for use by the trainer.
	Sales information sheets. Fully customisable. Information sheets to help you sell your course to your employees or external customers.
	Additional reading… Fully customisable. Give your students some recommended further reading materials for this course.

To get started, just open this ‘Using Activities to Make Training Fun’ training courseware in your favourite word processor. You can fully customise the materials to suit your exact learning needs and include your own branding. Your own tailor-made course, delivered ‘off-the-peg’ and saving you thousands of pounds in development time and man-hours. Just press print and the perfect learning experience is yours to deliver.

Course outline
Course outline

Introduction

Most people have been at a party or some other social occasion where someone has told an inappropriate joke and ruined the mood (at least temporarily). Likewise, we’ve all been somewhere where the class clown is able to lighten the mood and help people have fun. The good news is that humor can help participants make their training sessions just as engaging as those fun social occasions. Even better, they don’t need to be the class clown or an award winning comedian to do it. This one-day workshop will help participants identify what kind of humor they can bring to the classroom, and how games can help them engage their participants.

Highlights of what participants will learn:

• Understand how training can include the use of humor and games;
• Explore different types of games;
• Identify methods to elicit participant buy-in;
• Understand humor principles in adult learning;
• Troubleshoot when games go badly;
• Develop their own games

Course contents

• Introduction and Course Overview You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
• Let’s Have Some Fun We will begin the day with a brief review of the learning cycle and adult learning principles. We will also discuss the value of games in training. Participants will then have an opportunity to share their favorite training game.
• Buy-in! During this session, we will discuss three things that can help the participants see the value of training games. We will also discuss some great game experiences and some games that flopped, and what we can take away from these lessons.
• Choosing the Right Game Preparation is key to the success of any trainer. This session will discuss some different types of games and activities. We’ll also talk about how to deal with reluctant participants.
• When Games Go Badly Despite our best intentions and planning, sometimes a game won’t work. We will discuss how to anticipate, avoid, and deal with problems.
• Using Humor in Training It’s not hard to be funny; just be CREATIF! We will explore each letter of this acronym during this session.
• Wavy Lines To break the day up and illustrate some of our key points, participants will take part in a quick, fun energizer.
• Quick and Easy Games Participants will take part in three easy games that can be adapted for many situations. Then, they will discuss the games from a trainer’s perspective.
• Create a Game To wrap up the day, participants will work in small groups to create their own game.
• Workshop Wrap-Up At the end of the day, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan

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