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November 1, 2011
12 Simulation Facilitation FAQs

How do you prepare a “senior person” to participate in a simulation with other members of their team or organization? How do you handle a participant who chooses to dominate the simulation or debrief process? Find out the answers to these and other questions training professionals face when training via simulations.

By Chris Musselwhite, Sue Kennedy, and Sue Probst of Discovery Learning Inc.

1. Early in the simulation, participants often look confused, lost, or skeptical. How much should the facilitator intervene?

July 11, 2011
Sharing Hidden Know-How: Facilitator as Catalyst for Innovation

With “Sharing Hidden Know-How” (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, April 2011), Katrina Pugh introduces a radical new way to unlock the knowledge captive in organizations. She introduces the “Knowledge Jam,” a facilitated conversation between “Originators” (experienced individuals, teams, networks) and “Brokers” (representatives of the learners, such as instructional designers). Learn how a facilitated conversation makes know-how come out into the open and translate into practice.

April 18, 2011
AIC Creates a Global Learning Portal

Great strides were made at Allied International Credit (AIC) when its Development and Facilitation team assumed the lead on developing its own section of the company’s Global Portal (a customizable Microsoft Sharepoint Solution). The Development and Facilitation team uses, controls, and designed its own site on the portal and built its site so the rest of the organization could leverage from its work and share best practices.

By Margery Weinstein

Great strides were made at Allied International Credit (AIC) when its Development and Facilitation team assumed the lead on developing its own section of the company’s Global Portal (a customizable Microsoft Sharepoint Solution). The Development and Facilitation team uses, controls, and designed its own site on the portal and built its site so the rest of the organization could leverage from its work and share best practices. Here are some features of the site that the Development and Facilitation team provides to its internal customers:

August 25, 2010
4 National Training Roll-Out Lessons

Any national roll-out of a training program is an anxiety-provoking experience for even the most seasoned learning professional. If the implementation fails, it is a very public failure. On the other hand, a national roll-out is a terrific opportunity to develop skills, attitudes, and behaviors across your operation that will improve performance and promote your culture.

By Karen Brill

Any national roll-out of a training program is an anxiety-provoking experience for even the most seasoned learning professional. If the implementation fails, it is a very public failure. On the other hand, a national roll-out is a terrific opportunity to develop skills, attitudes, and behaviors across your operation that will improve performance and promote your culture.

Our lessons learned from large-scale implementations, largely based on mistakes we’ve made, will benefit any organization that operates in multiple locations.

July 1, 1998
Better meetings

Better meetings for everyone (3 things you can do now) According to meeting facilitator Jana Kemp -- whose company, Meeting & Management Essentials (800.701.9447), produces the newsletter, Better

Better meetings for everyone (3 things you can do now) According to meeting facilitator Jana Kemp -- whose company, Meeting & Management Essentials (800.701.9447), produces the newsletter, Better