TGL: December 2006
TGL: December 2006 is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- During the training session let the FAs experience the participants' excitement and misery. Conduct a regular training session for real participants. Intersperse the FAs with these participants and have them behave just like the others, taking part in all activities.
- Get out of the way-gradually. During the next training session (with real participants), ask one or more FAs to conduct selected activities while you assume the role of the lead facilitator. During the subsequent training sessions, use this gradual replacement procedure:
- Have the FAs co-facilitate the training session by alternating lead roles.
- Ask the FAs to individually facilitate the entire session, encouraging them to make suitable changes and incorporate personal touches. Provide reinforcement and feedback immediately following the session. Also provide feedforward tips for the next session.
- Let the FAs conduct a session on their own. Discuss their experience over the telephone.
- Set up a website to encourage FAs to share their modifications, problems, and suggestions to each other. Identify improvements and incorporate them in the “standard” package.
- This train-the-facilitator approach produces better results because it takes place within the context of regular training and encourages FAs to improvise improvements rather than behave as programmed robots.
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Prompts to use +
During the training session let the FAs experience the participants' excitement and misery. Conduct a regular training session for real participants. Intersperse the FAs with these participants and have them behave just like the others, taking part in all activities.
Get out of the way-gradually. During the next training session (with real participants), ask one or more FAs to conduct selected activities while you assume the role of the lead facilitator. During the subsequent training sessions, use this gradual replacement procedure:
Have the FAs co-facilitate the training session by alternating lead roles.
Ask the FAs to individually facilitate the entire session, encouraging them to make suitable changes and incorporate personal touches. Provide reinforcement and feedback immediately following the session. Also provide feedforward tips for the next session.
Let the FAs conduct a session on their own. Discuss their experience over the telephone.
Set up a website to encourage FAs to share their modifications, problems, and suggestions to each other. Identify improvements and incorporate them in the “standard” package.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: TGL: December 2006. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: During the training session let the FAs experience the participants' excitement and misery. Conduct a regular training session for real participants. Intersperse the FAs with these participants and have them behave just like the others, taking part in all activities.; Get out of the way-gradually. During the next training session (with real participants), ask one or more FAs to conduct selected activities while you assume the role of the lead facilitator. During the subsequent training sessions, use this gradual replacement procedure:; Have the FAs co-facilitate the training session by alternating lead roles.; Ask the FAs to individually facilitate the entire session, encouraging them to make suitable changes and incorporate personal touches. Provide reinforcement and feedback immediately following the session. Also provide feedforward tips for the next session.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from The Thiagi Group; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including The Thiagi Group.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.