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Are you developing teams beyond a culture of blame?
Even a cursory browse through the huge volume of literature about great teams will reveal that there's an understandable interest in how they just seem to 'get it right'. There often follows a prescription to help other teams follow that path to success. We read about aligning individual contribution, solution-focused communication, building a team...
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Do you focus on what you’ve learned, rather than what you’ve achieved?
I was challenged by a friend recently; she was making the point that we routinely ask clients to represent the complexities of situation or organisation in a way that reduces them to banal simplicity. What she asked me to do was to capture my life as it is today in a single representational diagram. I made several starts, only to abandon an attempt...
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DON'T invest in learning (invest in behaviour-change instead)
I know I've written about this before, but it's important and it keeps coming up in conversations I have with L+D people so I feel it would be timely to ask a few questions about how learning in organisations is understood. As you'll know I'm a specialist in experiential approaches to learning, so I'm going to look at the subject from that ...
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Training Awards and the Importance of Engagement
Being recognised within the Learning and Development industry to the extent that we are made recipients of specific awards always fills me with curiosity. Why us? Why now? Why this particular award? Don't get me wrong, it's a curiosity that stems from great pride in what we do, but simply accepting any award without asking questions risks ...
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How Could Experiential Learning Shape the Future of Leadership Development?
Here at RSVP Design, we're always keen to read and discuss any survey that comes from our colleagues at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). The latest focus of our attention is 'The Top 20 Leadership Challenges' published in July 2024.
RSVP Design learning tools are designed to be versatile, and many of our customers worldwide ...
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RSVP Design’s Train the Trainer experiential workshops are practical, professional, informative, and fun.
Not only are they guided by enthusiastic and experienced facilitators, but they also provide a perfect opportunity to develop your learning design and facilitation skills.
We have the following face to face / in-person Workshops scheduled:
You can also sign-up for planned remote learning Webinars as listed below, or contact us if you need some custom online or in-person product demonstrations or coaching support. We regularly travel outside the UK to attend Trade Shows, Conferences and to introduce our products to interested customers. Please contact us if you'd like to arrange a custom program in your area.
If you can't join us at one of our regular live online webinars, then watch a previous recording from the list below
Just click the image or the Webinar title!
This webinar introduces and explores the Performance Cubed activity - one of the most engaging collaborative learning activities in our collection.
It provides an evolving challenge where teams & participants experience a process to achieve better results through collaborative working.
The webinar offers hints and tips for facilitators and a review of how the activity typically plays out for participants.
RSVP Design holds stock of a variety of leadership resources from the US-based Center for Creative Leadership
leading business school.
Products include: Visual Explorer, Leadership Metaphor Explorer, Leadership Experience Explorer & Values Explorer.
The webinar provides an overview of each activity, the typical uses and facilitation requirements for each one, and the learning applications for them.
This webinar introduces the two activities contained within the Learning Squared product.
1.Broken Squares success is dependent upon relationships between team members, an awareness of what they need, & a willingness to offer resources without verbal communication.
2. Hollow Square is a rapid introduction to the skills of planning & carrying out an 'instructional' process. It's an excellent opportunity to rehearse remote management and instruction skills.
The Working with a Customer Focus Workshop provides all the materials needed to run a full 1 day experiential workshop in customer service skills.
This webinar recording explains how the materials were designed to allow learners to use their own experience of being both customers and suppliers, and their ability to view things from the customer's perspective so that they can identify improvements in customer's experience.
This webinar demonstrates two different Short Physical & Digital Creative Skills activities that can be used to stimulate creative thinking. Challenging Assumptions is a physical puzzle designed for groups of 4 to 16 people that demonstrates the power of conscious and unconscious assumptions, and Seeing the Point Online is a two stage challenge that requires groups of 4 to 16 to continue to try to deliver more using the same resources.
This webinar explores aspects of distributed cognition within Celtic Cross, Workstations Online, and Emergency Delivery online activities.
These are three different online experiential learning activities delivered via the experientiallearningtools.com platform.
The setup, delivery and facilitation/review of all three activities is covered within this recording.
This webinar explored several text-based products useful in helping generate good questions & discussion on specific topics such as coaching, action planning, giving or getting feedback, or as part of an activity review session.
Two new products were included: Feedback Frames and the Good Question Cards deck; as well as existing products: The Feedback Game , The Feelings Game , and the Developing Emotional Intelligence coaching cards.
The webinar explores aspects of distributed cognition within Celtic Cross, Workstations Online, and Emergency Delivery online activities.
These are three different online experiential learning activities delivered via the experientiallearningtools.com platform.
The setup, delivery and facilitation/review of all three activities is covered within this recording.
This webinar introduces and explores the Simbols activity - one of the most challenging but popular physical experiential learning activities in our collection.
It's widely used across the world as a leadership, high performance team development, and effective communication skills building activity.
The webinar offers hints and tips for facilitators and a review of how the activity typically plays out for participants.
The Outdoor Pack consists of four of our most popular, engaging and active experiential activities for outdoor us.
This discounted package covers a wide range of learning objectives, and includes: Webmaster, Team Balance, Helium Stick & Keypunch.
The webinar provides an overview of the materials provided, the typical progress of each activity and the learning it can be used for.
It also suggests several ways in which the activities can be combined.
This physical product-based webinar introduces T-Trade & Post-iT featuring RSVP Design's team negotiation challenge, originally designed in conjunction with IMD.
In addition this product includes a second activity: Post-iT. It's a separate experiential learning activity which looks at the challenge of remote team communications.
The webinar deals with the set up, expected learner outcomes and facilitation of both activities.
This Webinar is a demonstration of the Voyage Mapping activity, originally designed for business planning.
The four versions are described along with their applications, and both future planning, and project/learning review scenarios are included.
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Voyage Mapping: Hardback
Voyage Mapping: Standard Roll-Up
Voyage Mapping: Large Roll-Up
Voyage Mapping: Individual Coaching
Innovation & Creativity Webinar
This webinar describes a useful learning model (ELLI) to consider when developing innovation and creativity training. It also demonstrates a number of activties from the Breakthrough Thinking Workshop product that RSVP Design supplies, amongst several other experiential learning tools.
Matrix Webinar
The Matrix activity offers opportunities to explore the effectiveness of different matrix, cell and linear reporting systems within an internal supply chain. This webinar covers what is included within the physical package and a quick start method of first using the activity in team development, as well as some alterations and modifications the trainer can make to more closely model specific learning situations.
Minefield Webinar
This Webinar introduces the Minefield experiential learning activity, focused on collaboration and 'silo busting'. We present the background to the original game's development, and offer an opportunity for the live participants to exerience the typical approach to the activity brief that is presented. We also discuss the facilitation requirements and how the activity is lekely to progress with different groups.
ELT Subscription Offer Webinar
This is an overview of all of the online experiential learning tools currently available on the ELT platform @
https://experientiallearningtools.com/
These include Broken Squares, Colourblind, Colourblind Plus, Celtic Cross, Emergency Delivery, Images of Customer Experience, Images of Organisations, Images of Resilience, Seeing the Point, Simbols, & Worksations.
It also includes an explanation of the various subscription options
Colourblind® (online version) activity Webinar
This 2023 webinar offered an opportunity for people to take part in a (successful!) demonstration of the Colourblind® (online version) experiential learning activity. It also showed how the facilitator sets up the invitations on the
Colourblind® Plus (online version) activity Webinar
This online version of Colourblind® Plus is a communication focused team building activity designed to develop these skills in individuals, small groups and larger teams. As well as the large group version (run in the same way as the original Colourblind), it also has a pairs option and small team option (4).
Simbols Online Webinar
Simbols (online version) is an excellent fully virtual experiential learning activity for improving communication skills within a team, and based on the highly successful face to face, physical Simbols activity.
Chiji Cards Webinar
This webinar offered an opportunity for people to take part in a demonstration of the new Chiji Cards experiential learning activity.
Be Future Ready - RSVP Design's Top Priority
Dr Geoff Cox will describe the use of RSVP Design’s Top Priority activity as a vehicle for simulating future working environments and rehearsing the operational changes we’re going to need.
Mosaic Diversity activity Webinar
Watch this webinar to learn more about how Mosaic works, the technology and thinking behind the design and the plan for other potential activities that can use the Viewpoint technology.
Learning Squared – Planning/Delegation and Collaboration
The Webinar introduces this group problem-solving activity and its original design as an activity for use in Supervisory Skills training, but also it's efficacy in considering team/organisational culture & compliance
At My Best Strength Cards
This introductory webinar will provide a practical insight into the At My Best® Strengths Cards. The session will include lots of guidance on how to use the cards in practice. You can expect to leave the webinar with a wealth of ideas as to how you could use the strengths cards in one-to-one and group scenarios.
Using RSVP Design tools in developing coaching skills
In this webinar Ann Alder, Training Director, RSVP Design takes you through some of our most popular tools and suggests innovative ways of approaching your next coaching assignment.
Building Personal Resilience Webinar
We invite you to watch this free webinar to explore, with us, a range of ideas and activities linked to the theme of resilience.
Reversal Webinar
This is a recording of an online demonstration of the physical Reversal Experiential Learning Activity. Reversal is an excellent modern team building, remote management and leadership activity. This webinar explains how the activity proceeds and how to facilitate it and design it into a learning session or program.
Colourblind & Colourblind Plus
Many customers ask us about how and when they might use either of these products and how they might differ! Listen to Graham Cook on this free Webinar and he will take you through each activity and will provide insights into their design and application over the last 25 years!
A Teambuilding/Team Development package: Teamwork Web
This webinar introduces Teamwork Web: a package containing thirty different experiential learning activities designed to work together to create an engaging half day development programme for teams.
Emergency Delivery Webinar
This webinar explores the learning objectives, platform set up and the process. The activity concerns information sharing and co-ordination, as well as problem solving in a team context.
Icebreakers with a difference from RSVP Design
Are you fed up with the usual ice breakers? In this webinar RSVP Design team will give some new suggestions of small, quick and simple tools you can take into your training!
Online Workstations Demo
In this webinar we explore the Workstations Online version - its learning objectives and how to use the online product.