Icebreakers and Energisers for Effective Training

Description

Icebreakers and Energisers for Effective Training contains over 60 highly practical activities for anyone wanting to enlivening their training, engage training delegates and make their training as effective as possible. It is packed full of ideas, hints and tips to ensure that training doesn't become repetitive and stale, and each tool is directly linked to learning.

Activities cover a whole range of topics including ice breakers, motivators and remotivators, reinforcements, introductions, group bonding exercises and testing learning and support each stage of a training course, from opening to testing and reinforcing learning at the end. They can be adapted to any type of training course and are guaranteed to reinvigorate any trainer's repertoire, ensuring that training is always fresh and effective.

Contents

1. Preparing the learning area
2. Introducing a course
3. Pre-course activities
4. Presenting the agenda
5. Introducing yourself: The trainer
6. Collecting objectives
7. Introducing the attendees to each other
8. Attendees introducing themselves
9. Handling logistics
10. Preparing the mind for learning
11. Introducing exercises
12. Changing activities
13. Livening up the classroom
14. Introducing role plays and allocating roles
15. Preparing attendees to observe
16. Dividing a group into teams
17. Bonding a group
18. Encouraging discussion
19. The dead hour
20. Reinforcing learning
21. Testing success
22. Closing a course