Train the Trainer

Enactus Canada 2015-16 Training Enactus in a Box Train-the-Trainer Model Focus on team operations, project management, competition preparation Led by YOU! Enactus Connects Conference Focus on social enterprise and world-class projects Led by experts and alumni World Cup Accelerator Program World Class Projects

Delegating Training to YOU Enactus In A Box Sessions New Member Orientation Marketing & Campaigns Stakeholder Management Recruitment & Retention Project Management Etc. Up to your team to take advantage Ask your PM to co-facilitate a session with you when he/she is visiting with your team!

Why the new format? Empowers you to deliver training yourself to your team when you need it It allows your team to adjust training based on your own team’s needs It allows you to break up the training from one or two days to take place over a period of multiple weeks or even months Best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else

What will each session include? PowerPoint slides Facilitator’s guides References, resources and appendices related to the training program Experiential training activities

Important Information Enactus in a Box will be ready for launch sometime over the summer It will be hosted on our new website currently being constructed Teams are recommended in setting goals with their Program Managers in which sessions they are going to deliver, and when (the earlier in the school year the better)

Adult Learning Principles Adults are internally motivated and self-directed Adults bring life experiences and knowledge to learning experiences Adults are goal oriented Adults are relevancy oriented Adults are practical Adult learners like to be respected 1. Adults are internally motivated and self-directed Adult learners resist learning when they feel others are imposing information, ideas or actions on them. Your role is to facilitate a students' movement toward more self-directed and responsible learning as well as to foster the student's internal motivation to learn. 2. Adults bring life experiences and knowledge to learning experiences Adults like to be given opportunity to use their existing foundation of knowledge and experience gained from life experience, and apply it to their new learning experiences. 3. Adults are goal oriented Adult students become ready to learn when "they experience a need to learn it in order to cope more satisfyingly with real-life tasks or problems“. Connect your training with experiences you have been through. 4. Adults are relevancy oriented Adult learners want to know the relevance of what they are learning to what they want to achieve. Keep training practical and invite the people for whom training will apply to. 5. Adults are practical Through practical fieldwork experiences, interacting with real clients and their real life situations, students move from classroom and textbook mode to hands-on problem solving where they can recognise first hand how what they are learning applies to life and the work context.  6. Adult learners like to be respected Respect can be demonstrated to your student by: Taking interest Acknowledging the wealth of experiences that the student brings to the placement; Regarding them as a colleague who is equal in life experience Encouraging expression of ideas, reasoning and feedback at every opportunity.

Preparation for a training event What are the steps that you should take in getting prepared for a training event? Have a discussion here for a bit

Best Practices Confirm everything (logistics) before the session Ask participants prior to the session for topics that they’d like to learn about Arrive early to get everything set-up Over prepare Master the content 1. Adults are internally motivated and self-directed Adult learners resist learning when they feel others are imposing information, ideas or actions on them. Your role is to facilitate a students' movement toward more self-directed and responsible learning as well as to foster the student's internal motivation to learn. 2. Adults bring life experiences and knowledge to learning experiences Adults like to be given opportunity to use their existing foundation of knowledge and experience gained from life experience, and apply it to their new learning experiences. 3. Adults are goal oriented Adult students become ready to learn when "they experience a need to learn it in order to cope more satisfyingly with real-life tasks or problems“. Connect your training with experiences you have been through. 4. Adults are relevancy oriented Adult learners want to know the relevance of what they are learning to what they want to achieve. Keep training practical and invite the people for whom training will apply to. 5. Adults are practical Through practical fieldwork experiences, interacting with real clients and their real life situations, students move from classroom and textbook mode to hands-on problem solving where they can recognise first hand how what they are learning applies to life and the work context.  6. Adult learners like to be respected Respect can be demonstrated to your student by: Taking interest Acknowledging the wealth of experiences that the student brings to the placement; Regarding them as a colleague who is equal in life experience Encouraging expression of ideas, reasoning and feedback at every opportunity.

While you are training What are some examples of great training that you have attended in the past? What made it so great? What are examples of training that you did not enjoy? What could have been improved? Have a discussion here for a bit

Best Practices Establish the ground rules Example: Design Alliance Start with an icebreaker activity Keep the vast majority of the “tough” content in the middle of the training session End with an activity that gets the participants to apply what they just learnt

Group Activity Step 1: Think about the training needs of your team. Write them down. Step 2: Create a tentative training plan for your team for the 2015-16 year Step 3: Form groups of four to five people and share your training plans with each other Step 4: Collectively come up with an ideal training plan for an Enactus team and present to everyone