Trainer Training Resources

Towards Rich Environments for Active Learning

This half day Workshop introduces delegates to the methodologies behind the design of our learning activities and allows delegates to get ’hands on’ with a number of RSVP Design Learning Tools. The session is aimed at answering questions regarding the facilitation, use and design of these learning tools, and can include any toolbox or workshop within the RSVP Design portfolio.

Attendance at this Workshop costs £75.00 but provides a product discount voucher for £75.00 against the future purchase of any learning design activity within 3 months of attending the Workshop.

To book a place please click here.

These events are regularly held throughout the UK and internationally, and if your organisation is interested in an in-house demonstration, please contact us.

Feedback from customers attending this workshop shows:
• 72% rated the facilitation of the workshop as ’Highly Supportive, Flexible and Professional’
• 79% said attending the Workshop ’Increased, or Greatly Improved their Confidence & Knowledge’
• 82% said they would attend another Open Workshop run by RSVP Design
• 93% said the Workshop was ’Acceptable or Excellent value for money’


Why Use Experiential Activities? (View full PDF)

There are a wide range of reasons for offering learners the opportunity to take part in experiential learning as part of the training process. The activities which you offer add variety, involvement, challenge and an element of fun to what could otherwise be a programme of instruction.

However, more fundamental to the decision are two elements:

• The process by which adult learners make sense of their experience
• The variety of learning styles which adult learners apply

What type of experiential activities? (View full PDF)

Management games and simulations can be thought of as mirrors - exciting tools which reflect business process in a way which cuts through the fog of familiarity.

These mirrors can offer insights into every level of business process, from the all day - everyday routine interaction of people at work to the complexity of whole systems in operation.

Good designs derive from real working environments - what makes them work and what makes them work efficiently. Participants rarely question the simulation content because what happens in these activities happens at work.

• Advanced Facilitation Skills: A 2-day workshop
  Developing your skills in facilitating learning groups
• Creating REALS
  Developing your skills in designing and delivering Rich Environments for Active Learning
• Research Paper
  Design Considerations in the Integration of Business Simulations into Rich Environments for Active Learning
• How RSVP Design create REALs
  Abridged version
• Creating REALs Template
  Download the handout Ann Alder used recently at the ASTD Conference in Washington DC to provide a template for training program designers seeking to create more engaging and effective learning environments for their learners.
• Enhancing Learning Power
  Download an article on facilitating a learning process and the concept  of 'Learning Power'
• Create Your Own Business Simulation Lab to Drill Your Teams in Better Decision Making
  Download an article on exploring how teams learn and the importance of business simulation as vital tools in improving organisational decision-making capabilities.

Facilitation Skills
Click on these links to download recent articles by Ann Alder in the International Association of Facilitators (Europe) and Journal of The Association for Management Education and Development newsletters:
IAF June 2010
IAF August 2010
AMED Autumn 2011

Pattern Making, Pattern Breaking:

Using Past Experience and New Behaviour in Training, Education and Change Management

Click below to purchase a copy of Ann Alder's recent book at a discount!.
Click here to Purchase Pattern Making, Pattern Breaking