This document discusses effective training and how to make training impactful and ensure skills are transferred back to the workplace. It advocates for experiential learning approaches like games and activities to make training engaging and help participants retain information and develop action plans to apply new skills on the job. Examples provided show how games can build skills like communication, teamwork and problem solving that are relevant to various work contexts. The goal is for training to create understanding and commitment to change, not just convey information through conventional methods.

2. What is Effective Training? Effective trainings convey relevant and useful information that inform participants and develop skills and behaviors that can be transferred back to the workplace. The goal of training is to create an impact that lasts beyond the end time of the training itself. The focus is on creating specific action steps and commitments that focus people’s attention on incorporating their new skills and ideas back at work. Source: https://www.amherst.edu/offices/human_resources/training/whatistraining

4. Crammed board room

5. Bored to tears

6. Watching the clock

7. Another PowerPointRetention and application will never happen. So, what is the solution?

8. Experiential Learning according to Carl Rogers…. “Any experience where there is personal involvement that is initiated and evaluated by the learner. “ “When a person asks themselves, “What have I experienced and learned an how can I apply it?”

9. Why would experiential learning and game playing make sense in Corporate America?

10. According to the Chinese Proverb: I hear…I forget I see…and I remember I do…and I understand

11. What is the missing Link? Connecting it to the workplace and learning objectives!

12. For example Ropes Courses build…. Trust Leadership Teamwork

13. What role do games play? “A game is part of bringing an interesting environment to the learner that is user friendly. Games are fun with a purpose.” -Steve Sugar, The Game Group in Ellicott City, Maryland

14. “Playing games you learn to define the issues, work within the rules, and find the best solution to problems. You learn to be realistic.” -Hank Klehn, Executive Vice President Corporate Development, for Dames & Moore

15. Experiential Learning through Game Playing

17. Be able to articulate what they feel to be the current communication barriers in the workplace

19. Assess the effectiveness of different types of communications in your workplace

20. Discuss the current state of the flow of communication

22. Be able to articulate basketball terms into everyday working scenarios

24. Review basketball terms and understand their meaning

26. Work to enhance problem solving skills in the workplace

27. Develop a more vested interest in the company by building loyalty to the company

29. Experience work tasks that occur in different departments

30. Improve presentation skills

32. Be able to articulate Taboo terms into everyday working scenarios

34. Review Taboo terms and understand their meaning

35. Split into small groups and given office scenarios, discuss how Taboo principles can be used in the office environment