Mixture of Visuals, Stories, Short Talks & Exercises
Presentations include....
Visuals
PPT, posters, handouts, props, toys, metaphoric gifts, prizes, mimes, role plays
Stories/Anecdotes
Talks
supported with visuals and handouts
Bonding & Team Building
mental, physical, social/emotional
Total Group Energizers
Symbolic & Metaphoric Exercises, Challenges & Games
All programs and presentations from keynotes to 5-day workshops or training programs involve bonding, teaming, energizing, challenges, all connected to the content of the sessions.
Symbolic/Simulation & Case Study Assignments
Challenges, Exercises and Problems
Throughout the programs participants are challenged in a mix of teams so that they can hear ideas , input and understandings from many different people to ALL of the participants.
Community Growth is a Bi-Product
Community Development
ALL programs and presentations are designed and planned to help community development and growth among the participants whether strangers at the beginning or long time fellow works or friends.
Alan's "Model 'Q'" Teaching/Learning Model
Multiple Delivery Styles
Alan uses multiple delivery styles to better capture the greatest number of learning styles of the participants:
mental, physical, social, emotional
right-brain/left-brain and other learning/thinking/communicating/problem solving styles
variety of intelligences
His doctoral research studies focused upon the "matching of learning and teaching styles to enhance and deepend learning"
What do People Remember Best?
National Learning Institute Study
NLI studies have indicated how much people TEND to remember 30 minutes after specific types of teaching deiivery techniques.
Alan's Model of
Thinking-Learning-Communicating-Problem Solving
M.I.N.D. Design
Model
Alan developed his ... M.I.N.D. Design StyleModel based on his doctoral research into teaching and learning styles and a slater tudy involving 300 students and 300 style questionaires and exercises. He has used it in most of his nearly 3200 presentations around the world since 1982.
My Learning Processes
My Learning Processes
Like everyone I began learning at birth and have never truly stopped.
