Cool Training Ideas Examples & Tips Israeli Training Community Meeting May 2007 Amir Elion

2 © On Today’s Menu Part A: Sample Creative Ideas you may use in any training you do Part B: Tools for creating more cool training ideas by yourselves What Else? Have fun! Get to know cool people!

3 © Part A Creative Training Ideas

4 © Example 1 – Cool Content Looking for that training ace? Unique to you and no-one else? Start rhyming and humming your line, Even boring subjects will turn divine. At first you may find it clumsy or hard, Push forward and walk that extra yard, And then you’ll be something else, no fear, One of a kind – a Training Shakespeare!

5 © Example 1 – Rhyme your Content Uses & Benefits: 1.Content has better “flow” and will be more easily remembered 2.Especially appropriate for talking about vision and values 3.May balance “heavier” content such as financial or critical subjects Variations & Options: Change the wording of a familiar song Compose music for your “theme” text Give participants a CD with a recording of your training poems

6 © Example 2 – Cool Structure Make more than one “ending” to your training, and let the audience choose the possible continuation

7 © Example 2 – Split Structure Variations & Options: You may or may not trace back to cover all options later Discuss why the group mad a specific choice Let participant offer even more directions Uses & Benefits 1.Audience is more involved 2.Trains participants to be proactive 3.Chosen end is most relevant option 4.Especially good when discussing options or several possible scenarios

8 © Example 2 – Split Structure So…make a choice now… Which cool idea do you wish to see? 3.Creative training medium 4.Creative Audience participation 5.Creative training atmosphere

9 © Example 3 – Creative Medium Man am I bored… This Audience makes me sleep… Oops... Now the trainer will shut up… Does anyone want to say what they think of this idea?

10 © Example 3 – Comic “Bubbles” Variations & Options: Uses real “demonstration-like” banners Give the banners to one/more participants in advance to be raise on your mark Uses & Benefits 1.Can be used to present an “inner voice” that raise dilemmas, or encourages response 2.Adding humor to the training 3.For challenging your major Paradigm Back

11 © Example 4 – Audience Participation Task: In groups of 3-5 people, you have 10 minutes to invent a slogan for the Israeli Training Community meetings for year Send the slogans to my mobile phone by instant text message (SMS). My number is: The best slogan will win a reward!

12 © Example 4 – Participation through SMS Variations & Options: Collect all answers and send to the participants later Ask them to SMS each other Ask them to SMS someone outside the training Uses & Benefits 1.Two-way communication with large audience 2.May be used for a quick poll or survey 3.Possibly – anonymous feedback 4.Great for quick contest or test Back

13 © Example 5 – Cool Atmosphere Welcome to the training community traveling movie theater

14 © Example 5 – Cinema Atmosphere Plan a training atmosphere of “Going to the movies”: 1.Give participants popcorns 2.Arrange the chairs like in the cinema 3.Split the training into “scene A”, “scene B”… 4.Use heroes or movie-stars

15 © Example 5 – Cinema Atmosphere Variations & Options: Uses participants as heroes and co-stars Add movie background music Try to think of the training in cinematic terms – screenplay writing, plot, heroes, props, lighting Uses & Benefits 1.Starts you off with a positive and fun feeling 2.The training “plot” may be easier to remember Back

16 © End of Part A To be continued… For more creative ideas for training or presentations see: