OPTION 1

INTEGRATING SOCIAL MEDIA TO IMPROVE WORKPLACE LEARNING presented by Janet Clarey

Venue

OPTION 4

ADVANCED FACILITATION SKILLS
Designed for experienced trainers who want to extend existing skills and take their training effectiveness to the next level

Are you finding that your learners rely on you for all the answers? Do you have difficulty managing the behaviour of some groups or individuals? Would you like to be more successful at structured activities like games, role plays and case studies?

Many trainers begin their career developing the skills to deliver instruction in a learning environment but soon look for alternatives. They begin to move towards other structured learning activities that are more learner-centred but find the skills of instruction are quite different from the skills of facilitating these kinds of learning events.

Workshop outcomes
You will learn how to:
- Plan and navigate a facilitation learning event
- Respond to unforeseen changes in group or individual behaviour and outcomes
- Respond to unhealthy competition, collusion, withdrawal, domination and criticism
- Manage boundaries and ensure behaviour is within limits of tolerance
- Use micro skills (incl. noticing, internally processing and controlling emotions)
- Use macro skills (incl. intervening, confronting, and emoting)

Agenda
Is it about the journey or the destination? - a Pilot’s guide to facilitation
- Establishing the destination
- Planning the journey

Contracting for facilitation
- Managing ‘client’ expectations and interventions
- Engaging with participants and setting boundaries
- Permission – the secret power

Changing course mid-flight
- Around or through the storms?
- Behaviour challenges
- The Magic formula

Skills development
- Multiple intelligences and facilitation skills development
- Practicing micro-skills for facilitators
- Practicing macro-skills
- Structured activities with games, role plays and case studies

Presented by Kevin Lohan
Kevin Lohan has been facilitating learning since 1985. You might have read his regular column in the AITD journal or the world class award-winning book ‘Creating Training Miracles’ that he wrote with Alastair Rylatt. He’s been an AITD member for 20 years and has shared his insights about training and learning with hundreds of other educators. Kevin has won many awards including international training awards and speaks at conferences around the world. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn with Kevin and other colleagues in this engaging workshop.

Venue

OPTION 5

A practical workshop designed to assist trainers build a successful and satisfying career in the vocational training sector.

Training VET sector students is far different from training university students or employees. While the need for theoretical grounding is often different, VET sector students are from diverse cultures, domestic backgrounds and experiences.

The challenge is threefold:
1. Engaging a diverse range of fee paying students to achieve an educational outcome that is higher than basic ‘competence’
2. Creating a learning experience around set curriculum that is nourishing and educationally sound
3. Achieving an interaction and that both the student AND trainer has enjoyed

Challenging Certificate, Diploma or Advanced Diploma students to be the best they can be revolves around great classroom management, engaging teaching-learning activities and a disciplined approach to teaching. A difficult and some would say impossible task.

Workshop outcomes:
You will learn how to:
• Use a variety of methods to engage and integrate those from different cultural backgrounds
• Set a classroom management structure that best relates to the demographic and psychometric profile of your students
• Target working (mature age) learners and non-working learners by using different activities
• Keep students motivated so that they:
- Arrive to class on time (an often difficult task)
- Achieve higher than average attendance rates
- Complete assigned homework tasks
• Keep students on track with set evaluation tasks
• Walk the fine-line between education and entertainment
• Survive the VET sector training challenge with humour and sanity.

Who would benefit?
• Trainers with Certificate IV in Training and Assessment who work with vocational training institutions
• Those who recruit and manage trainers for these institutions and need to implement professional development programs
• Educators who are transitioning from the University or corporate environment to vocational training

Agenda
Morning
• Who are VET sector learners?
• How are they different?
• Expectations from learners / expectations from educators
• Generating discussion
• Classroom management
• The power of story

Afternoon
• Motivational activities for VET sector learners
• Using technology to motivate: practice with a laptop report
• The power of the quiz: practice
• Evaluating to motivate, not to drain
• Using resources and limits on use
• Hands-on activities

About the presenter Phil Dye
As an APM Training Institute head lecturer in Public Relations and Business, Phil has trained thousands of vocational students to communicate more effectively. He was voted ‘Trainer of the year’ by APM students in 2006.

As a corporate trainer, Phil has worked with some of the world’s largest companies such as Oracle, Vivendi and HSBC to help them communicate more effectively. Current local clients include Salmat, Ricoh, Crown Castle International and Computer Associates, with his most popular workshops being ‘Better Business Writing’ and ‘Media Interview Training’.

As a journalist and social commentator, Phil has written on topics as diverse as fatherhood, the role of the mass media in society and corporate citizenship. He is a regular contributor to the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald opinion pages and his first book, (‘The Father Lode’), was published in 1998 by Allen and Unwin. His next book, ‘101 ways to improve your business writing’ was published in 2004.

Venue

OPTION 6

INNOVATIVE TRAINING METHODS
Designed for trainers who are seeking fresh ideas and games to energise groups and keep them engaged

Trainers often are seeking creative and alternative ways to train staff. This workshop aims to enhance the existing skills of trainers and will provide simple tips in order to make approach to each training day an exciting event for participants and the trainer alike.

Workshop outcomes
You will learn how to:
- Create synergy within a training group form the outset
- Maintain energy and attention
- Refocus groups when attention strays
- Adapt delivery techniques to suit the dynamics of the group

Agenda
Morning
- Starters to focus concentration
- Respecting adult learning principles while having fun in training
- Setting ground rules in their own words
- Moving the focus of the group without fuss or threat
- Utilising how people learn in activities
- Keeping group focus whilst covering vast amounts of information

Afternoon
- Present training in systematic and entertaining ways
- Modifying delivery techniques when required
- Activities to revise content and terminology
- Developing resources for the whole training team to use
- Closing the session with panache

Presented by Catherine Logue
Catherine has been training facilitators and trainers for 17 years, however she has been coaching people managers for 25 years.
 
Some of those skills we need as trainers are the same as those we need daily for interaction in the workplace & home, so the learning enhances the quality of work life and multi-skills the staff. Catherine uses the fundamentals of adult learning principles & creative techniques which ensure fun and learning. Her style allows adaptation of the techniques explored to your own needs in the training role, as well as the opportunity to share your knowledge and skills, and collect more techniques for your training kitbag.

Venue

Venue

Timing

Fees
AITD member AND attending the conference FREE OF CHARGE
Non-member and attending the conference $430 (incl of GST)
AITD member and only want to attend this workshop and not the conference $500 (incl of GST)
Non-member and only want to attend this workshop and not the conference $620 (incl of GST)

OPTION 4

ADVANCED FACILITATION SKILLS
Designed for experienced trainers who want to extend existing skills and take their training effectiveness to the next level

Are you finding that your learners rely on you for all the answers? Do you have difficulty managing the behaviour of some groups or individuals? Would you like to be more successful at structured activities like games, role plays and case studies?

Many trainers begin their career developing the skills to deliver instruction in a learning environment but soon look for alternatives. They begin to move towards other structured learning activities that are more learner-centred but find the skills of instruction are quite different from the skills of facilitating these kinds of learning events.

Workshop outcomes
You will learn how to:
- Plan and navigate a facilitation learning event
- Respond to unforeseen changes in group or individual behaviour and outcomes
- Respond to unhealthy competition, collusion, withdrawal, domination and criticism
- Manage boundaries and ensure behaviour is within limits of tolerance
- Use micro skills (incl. noticing, internally processing and controlling emotions)
- Use macro skills (incl. intervening, confronting, and emoting)

Agenda
Is it about the journey or the destination? - a Pilot’s guide to facilitation
- Establishing the destination
- Planning the journey

Contracting for facilitation
- Managing ‘client’ expectations and interventions
- Engaging with participants and setting boundaries
- Permission – the secret power

Changing course mid-flight
- Around or through the storms?
- Behaviour challenges
- The Magic formula

Skills development
- Multiple intelligences and facilitation skills development
- Practicing micro-skills for facilitators
- Practicing macro-skills
- Structured activities with games, role plays and case studies

Presented by Kevin Lohan
Kevin Lohan has been facilitating learning since 1985. You might have read his regular column in the AITD journal or the world class award-winning book ‘Creating Training Miracles’ that he wrote with Alastair Rylatt. He’s been an AITD member for 20 years and has shared his insights about training and learning with hundreds of other educators. Kevin has won many awards including international training awards and speaks at conferences around the world. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn with Kevin and other colleagues in this engaging workshop.

Venue

OPTION 5

A practical workshop designed to assist trainers build a successful and satisfying career in the vocational training sector.

Training VET sector students is far different from training university students or employees. While the need for theoretical grounding is often different, VET sector students are from diverse cultures, domestic backgrounds and experiences.

The challenge is threefold:
1. Engaging a diverse range of fee paying students to achieve an educational outcome that is higher than basic ‘competence’
2. Creating a learning experience around set curriculum that is nourishing and educationally sound
3. Achieving an interaction and that both the student AND trainer has enjoyed

Challenging Certificate, Diploma or Advanced Diploma students to be the best they can be revolves around great classroom management, engaging teaching-learning activities and a disciplined approach to teaching. A difficult and some would say impossible task.

Workshop outcomes:
You will learn how to:
• Use a variety of methods to engage and integrate those from different cultural backgrounds
• Set a classroom management structure that best relates to the demographic and psychometric profile of your students
• Target working (mature age) learners and non-working learners by using different activities
• Keep students motivated so that they:
- Arrive to class on time (an often difficult task)
- Achieve higher than average attendance rates
- Complete assigned homework tasks
• Keep students on track with set evaluation tasks
• Walk the fine-line between education and entertainment
• Survive the VET sector training challenge with humour and sanity.

Who would benefit?
• Trainers with Certificate IV in Training and Assessment who work with vocational training institutions
• Those who recruit and manage trainers for these institutions and need to implement professional development programs
• Educators who are transitioning from the University or corporate environment to vocational training

Agenda
Morning
• Who are VET sector learners?
• How are they different?
• Expectations from learners / expectations from educators
• Generating discussion
• Classroom management
• The power of story

Afternoon
• Motivational activities for VET sector learners
• Using technology to motivate: practice with a laptop report
• The power of the quiz: practice
• Evaluating to motivate, not to drain
• Using resources and limits on use
• Hands-on activities

About the presenter Phil Dye
As an APM Training Institute head lecturer in Public Relations and Business, Phil has trained thousands of vocational students to communicate more effectively. He was voted ‘Trainer of the year’ by APM students in 2006.

As a corporate trainer, Phil has worked with some of the world’s largest companies such as Oracle, Vivendi and HSBC to help them communicate more effectively. Current local clients include Salmat, Ricoh, Crown Castle International and Computer Associates, with his most popular workshops being ‘Better Business Writing’ and ‘Media Interview Training’.

As a journalist and social commentator, Phil has written on topics as diverse as fatherhood, the role of the mass media in society and corporate citizenship. He is a regular contributor to the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald opinion pages and his first book, (‘The Father Lode’), was published in 1998 by Allen and Unwin. His next book, ‘101 ways to improve your business writing’ was published in 2004.

Venue

OPTION 6

INNOVATIVE TRAINING METHODS
Designed for trainers who are seeking fresh ideas and games to energise groups and keep them engaged

Trainers often are seeking creative and alternative ways to train staff. This workshop aims to enhance the existing skills of trainers and will provide simple tips in order to make approach to each training day an exciting event for participants and the trainer alike.

Workshop outcomes
You will learn how to:
- Create synergy within a training group form the outset
- Maintain energy and attention
- Refocus groups when attention strays
- Adapt delivery techniques to suit the dynamics of the group

Agenda
Morning
- Starters to focus concentration
- Respecting adult learning principles while having fun in training
- Setting ground rules in their own words
- Moving the focus of the group without fuss or threat
- Utilising how people learn in activities
- Keeping group focus whilst covering vast amounts of information

Afternoon
- Present training in systematic and entertaining ways
- Modifying delivery techniques when required
- Activities to revise content and terminology
- Developing resources for the whole training team to use
- Closing the session with panache

Presented by Catherine Logue
Catherine has been training facilitators and trainers for 17 years, however she has been coaching people managers for 25 years.
 
Some of those skills we need as trainers are the same as those we need daily for interaction in the workplace & home, so the learning enhances the quality of work life and multi-skills the staff. Catherine uses the fundamentals of adult learning principles & creative techniques which ensure fun and learning. Her style allows adaptation of the techniques explored to your own needs in the training role, as well as the opportunity to share your knowledge and skills, and collect more techniques for your training kitbag.

Venue