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    Ebook71 pages49 minutes

    Active Reviewing

    By Roger Greenaway, Bogdan Vaida and Călin Iepure

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    About this ebook

    If you want to help people learn from activities, exercises or experiences, this book is for you. This book fills a gap; it is the gap between doing an activity and learning from it. Plenty of books describe activities that are good for icebreaking, for team-building, for project management or for cross-cultural understanding, etc. A few of these books do give advice about reviewing (or debriefing) the activities, and 90% of the times it reads: “Here are some questions you can ask ...”. How’s that for boring and/or limiting?

    The result of such advice is that reviews are often dull and they dwell on what went wrong. When reading, they give off a feeling of discomfort. But why is that? Well, one of the reasons is because the same people speak up all the time. And that bores and might even annoy the rest of the participants. Thus, reviewing gets a bad name and people just want the review to finish as quickly as possible so that they can get on with the next activity.

    This is a rare book for two reasons:
    It is about reviewing (How many books have you come across on this subject?)
    It is about reviewing actively.(Which makes it not just rare, but unique.)

    With the help of this book, you can make reviews at least as engaging as the activities you are reviewing. No more discomfort. No more unwanted silences. No more superficial reviews. Just engaging and practical ways to help people learn from experience! How does that sound for a change?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBogdan Vaida
    Release dateNov 14, 2015
    ISBN9781519941961
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      Not bad but having attended Roger's workshop before, this is hardly the tip of the iceberg. Too few strategies being shared here.

    Book preview

    Active Reviewing - Roger Greenaway

    Active Reviewing

    A Practical Guide for Trainers and Facilitators

    ––––––––

    Preface or An out-of-the-box meet the trainers!

    Chapter 1: Why this book

    1.1: Eureka, Eureka !

    1.2: Active Reviewing - drawing learning from experience

    1.3: The practical, down-to-earth Active Reviewing Toolkit

    Chapter 2: ART: The Active Reviewing Toolkit

    2.1: Reviewing with playing cards - a practical model

    Quiz: Reviewing with playing cards

    2.2:♢ Facts: Activity Map

    2.3:♢ Facts: Action Replay

    Quiz: Working with facts and first assumptions

    2.4:♡ Feelings: Empathy Test - how would your partner answer this question?

    2.5:♡ Feelings: Storyline

    Quiz: Focusing on feelings and experiences

    2.6:♤ Findings: Goal Keepers - how am I doing?

    2.7:♤ Findings: Horseshoe

    Quiz: Digging deeper and finding out

    2.8:♧ Futures: Back to the Future - using your assets to help you achieve your goals

    2.9:♧ Futures: Missing Person - what kind of newcomer would really benefit this group?

    Quiz: Bridging past, present and future

    Chapter 3: Implementing ART into your training

    3.1: When to review?

    3.2: Not enough time for reviewing?

    3.3: What could possibly go wrong? - spot these traps and know how to avoid them

    3.4: Top 10 tips for reviewing

    3.5: Q&A-  Participation leads to learning. Do you agree?

    Chapter 4: What's next?

    4.1: SURVEY: Help us improve the toolkit

    4.2: BONUS: Access the video course that this book was based upon

    4.3: Final words - your next steps can ensure that your own learning becomes active

    Appendix: Quiz answers

    Quiz: Reviewing with playing cards

    Quiz: Working with facts and first assumptions

    Quiz: Focusing on feelings and experiences

    Quiz: Digging deeper and finding out

    Quiz: Bridging past, present and future

    Preface or An out-of-the-box meet the trainers!

    About us ...

    One day in the summer of 2014, Călin Iepure travelled to Bucharest in search of new ideas to use in his work as a trainer. Călin had signed up for a two day trainer-training workshop with me (Roger Greenaway). During this workshop he got very excited about how he could use these new ideas in his work as a trainer. He then shared these ideas with Bogdan Vaida (a fellow trainer from Timișoara) and they both started experimenting with these dynamic training techniques. Soon their colleagues started showing an interest and they decided to invite me to provide a workshop in Timișoara in the spring of 2015.

    Over meals and coffee breaks, we started talking about making an online training course together. We quickly realised that in addition to our shared interest in making training more interactive, we each had a set of complementary skills: Călin's work with business start-ups and entrepreneurship; Bogdan's work with online training videos and my own niche providing training workshops in active reviewing skills and techniques.

    ... and a bit about the book

    After launching our online course in the summer of 2015, we decided to create a book version of the online course. You may find that this book is all you need, but at some point you may decide that you would like to take a look at the more detailed online course.

    I hope you find your journey into the world of active reviewing as rewarding as Călin found on his trip to the big city in the summer of 2014. On the next page, Bogdan takes over as the main narrator in your new book.

    May your future participants enjoy the new opportunities that active reviewing opens up for them. No more dull debriefs!

    Dr. Roger Greenaway

    Chapter 1: Why this book

    If you want to help people learn from activities, exercises or experiences, this book is for you. This book fills a gap; it is the gap between doing an activity and learning from it. Plenty of books describe activities that are good for icebreaking, for team-building, for project management or for cross-cultural understanding, etc. A few of these books do give advice about reviewing (or debriefing) the activities, and 90% of the times it reads: "Here are some questions you

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