Tips for Your Group or Team Programs

Course details

Are you a coach, facilitator, trainer or leader? Looking to brush up your skills in working with teams or groups through workshops, retreats, webinars, teleclasses?

Do you lead, or want to lead, workshops, team building, webinars, teleclasses or group or team coaching? Looking to amp up your results and make sure you're doing the best for your group members? Tips for your group and team programs provides dozens of practical tips in the areas of design and implementation. The program is geared for leaders, coaches, trainers and other professionals responsible for learning events.

Wanting to expand your ideas on how to DESIGN, IMPLEMENT powerful learning and facilitated experiences? Looking to not have to reinvent the wheel and/or fall into pitfalls?

Group and team programs can take a number of forms - workshops, retreats, webinars, teleclasses group and team coaching. In this program you will find tips which can be incorporated whether you are creating a webinar or a group or team coaching program.

I've been working with teams and groups for more than twenty five years, as a leader, facilitator, trainer and coach. These tips are all road tested through my own experience in running programs in more than 19 countries around the world. I've trained thousands through both in person and virtual learning events.

In this course you will learn:

• 7 critical activities to undertake pre-program to help with getting to know your group members and "priming" them for learning. These tips benefit both you and your learners. Many of these tips proactively help you avoid tricky issues you may encounter.

• 7 critical activities for designing powerful programs. Powerful learning programs boost member engagement, take into consideration learning styles and incorporate adult learning principles. This section will get you to consider how to incorporate these foundational design pieces. You will also see some "real time" design work in action.

• Our next section looks at 7 critical considerations for implementing powerful programs including essential items for your own facilitation kit, using Post-its in your program and practical tips for working with goals and accountability.

• The fourth section explores seven road-tested post- program tips keep the focus on group and team programs even after the group is done. Post-program activities are important in gaining valuable feedback about your programs, what people LEARN AND IMPLEMENT. It is also useful in creating repeat business for yourself.

Each of these 28 tips are supported by a practical activities for your to apply to your own program development. Many tips also have a downloadable checklist or activity sheet.

This program is based on the resources I continue to use in my own work with virtual and in-person programs, across the entire program cycle, from pre- to post-program and during design and implementation.

If you've been wanting to design an offering for a group then this will support you in getting started and avoiding some of the many pitfalls new, and experienced, practitioners fall into.

The tips program also has a part 2 focusing on marketing, geared to support you in creating strategies and activities to fill your programs - virtual and in person. The Marketing Tips for Your Group and Team Programs will be available in Spring 2015.

The program includes more than two dozen tips you can immediately action in your own programs. Each tip is accompanied by a follow-on activity, geared to get you moving these ideas into action.

The program includes more than 42 lectures .

The program is led by author and coach Jennifer Britton, who brings more than 25 years experience coaching, training and facilitating group and team programs in the virtual realm and more than 19 countries worldwide.