Planning days and A- Z of learning and development
Back to work and planning for 2021?
It’s been a turbulent year for us all, and it looks like much of the confusion and uncertainty we’ve faced in 2020 will continue into the coming year. For learning & HR professionals like you, it’s the perfect time to take stock of your L&D capability for 2021 and make sure you and your team are positioned to add as much value to the organization as possible in the year ahead.
Just like Rome, effective HR & L&D teams aren’t built in a day. For many teams, January is a time of planning and upskilling.
In your next team’s planning session, revisit foundation practices and knowledge via this activity. Look at them through a different lens.
Targeted activities and icebreakers a great way to engage your team, but for goodness sake, stop using ‘3 Truths and a lie’ icebreaker. There are so many other ways to break the ice and get the team talking. If you are struggling for ideas – head on over to our sign up page and download our free icebreakers ebook.
Activity to get the team thinking
Take a simple approach such as the A-Z of skills, your business, knowledge and allocate a keyword associated with each letter of the alphabet. Depending on the group size, you could break up the alphabet and allocate letters to each team. You could use butchers paper, or if conducting this remotely, have the team create a PowerPoint slide for each letter.
Each team should also be able to explain why this word was chosen, and how it relates to the team/workplace or theory.
Debrief as a group, you can even ask the group for other options for letters allocated.
Targeted activities and icebreakers a great way to engage your team, but for goodness sake, stop using ‘3 Truths and a lie’ icebreaker. There are so many other ways to break the ice and get the team talking.
If you are struggling for ideas – head on over to our sign up page and download our free icebreakers ebook.
If your team has completed this activity using PowerPoint, consider turning the PPT into a video using the ‘save as’ function. Send it out to your stakeholders and share the activity instructions so other departments or teams can benefit from the process. This creates a win/win scenario of promoting your team and capability and offering value via sharing activities with others.
To get you started we have created a video of the A-Z of training. We hope you enjoy it! Feel free to use it as another way to compare to the team alphabet that your team created.
Whilst you are reflecting on the year that was 2020, why not celebrate your successes by entering Facilitated Training Awards? Entry closes on the 26th February.
Learn more about it here.
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