Duration

1 day

Aim

Most people have been at a party or some other social occasion where someone has told an inappropriate joke and ruined the mood (at least temporarily). Likewise, we’ve all been somewhere where the class clown is able to lighten the mood and help people have fun.

The good news is that humour can help you make your training sessions just as engaging as those fun social occasions. Even better, you don’t need to be the class clown or an award winning comedian to do it. This one-day workshop will help you identify what kind of humour you can bring to the classroom, and how games can help you engage your participants.

Target Audience

Trainers, Presenters or any member of staff who has to make training or presentations more fun and informal.

Prerequisites

No previous formal training within the subject.

Course Content

 Introduction and Course Overview  Let’s Have Some Fun  Buy-in!  Choosing the Right Game  When Games Go Badly  Using Humour in Training  Wavy Lines  Quick and Easy Games  Create a Game  Workshop Wrap-Up  Action Plan

Course Objectives

At the completion of this course participants will be able to:

 Understand how training can include the use of humor and games  Explore different types of games  Identify methods to elicit participant buy-in  Understand humor principles in adult learning  Troubleshoot when games go badly  Develop their own games  Devise an Action Plan on how they may take back their new found skills back into the workplace.

Course Outline