Introductions and expectations
Featured in the Developing People: The Manager's Role training manual
By Caroline Love
Category: People Management and Motivation
Credit price: 2 download credits (Single user)
At the start of any training programme, you will want to set the tone for the programme; a participative approach, using learners’ own experiences, recognising their prior learning, where learners are responsible for their own learning and offering theoretical models and opportunities to link learning to implementation in the workplace. This training activity is a challenging introduction to a programme that invites managers to reflect upon their way of working and to plan changes to increase effectiveness in the future.
You introduce yourself, and the participants introduce themselves individually. Then you introduce the programme and the purpose of the programme. The participants visualise how the staff they manage see them in their role as a developer of people and identify what it is that they want to change. This forms the group learning expectations. The training activity ends with a group contract for behaviour and the establishment of ground rules.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to introduce participants to the programme, enabling them to begin to get to know each other, and creating a learning climate.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:25:00 |
| No of Pages: | 7 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers as the first training activity of a training programme on developing people: the manager’s role. It can also be used, with minor adaptations, at the start of a management development, staff support and supervision, team development or leadership skills training programme.
Download the training activity, Introductions and expectations as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing People: The Manager's Role