Interactives to Enhance &
Energize Your Programs

Gail has been facilitating group activities and coordinating themed special events for over 20 years with a degree in Recreation and a Masters in Experiential Education (that's learning by doing). She has directed ropes courses and teambuilding programs in America and Europe for thousands of participants to enhance leadership, communication, trust, risk-taking, and retention. She shares some of her tips for incorporating interactive initiatives into your special events or training workshops to enhance participation, retention, enthusiasm, and interest in your audience through engaging methods of presenting material. Studies show that Generation X and Y in particular are very discriminating on how they gain their knowledge, and they are used to interacting with the learning source rather than by lecture and wrote. The talking head is dead. Discover how to involve the audience with compelling learning environments and gain an understanding of adult learning theory to include the Law of Effect, the Law of Exercise, chunking, linking, processing, transfer, and repetition.

This session is perfect for Trainers, Speakers, Recreation Professionals, Instructors, Meeting Planners, and Human Resource Professionals who want to enhance the art of interaction in their programs.

Learning Outcomes :

• Describe how to adapt activities based on program theme, age, room and group size, or the time allotted and how to set up your space for a positive learning experience.
• Participate in exercises and identify tips on how to process the transfer of the session to the workplace based on adult learning theory.
• Discover how to round them up after you've wound them up, and obtain valuable resources for researching the ideal activity to suit your goals.
• Identify how to create a purposeful, engaging activity to reinforce a learning point and increase audience ownership in the outcomes of the process.
• Describe the methodologies of chunking, linking, reviewing, revisiting, primacy, writing, and discussion and their affect on the retention rates of participants.
• List the many methods of involving a learner that engages their cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills to address the different types of learning modes and increase understanding, enthusiasm, and retention.
  
  

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