New Age Training Programs: Facilitator Training And Innovation Training

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Training and Development programs play a very important role in any organization. By increasing productivity, commitment and knowledge of employees, training provides maximum return on investment for an organization.

A few popular training programs are those which are given at the time of induction or those for leadership and team building skills. While these programs are essential, companies have realized that their employees often lack the ability to think ‘outside the box’. To address this issue, organizations are looking to provide training which will help build their employees’ creative thinking techniques. Besides, they have identified the amount of hours wasted in unproductive meetings and hence the need to train someone who can act as a facilitator for strategic meetings.

The new age training programs: Innovation Training and Facilitator Training ...
... are an ideal solution to overcome these challenges. By incorporation De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats, Power of Perception and Lateral Thinking methods, these training programs will equip your employees to come up with creative solutions on demand. Let’s have a look at how these programs work:

Innovation Training

By combining the Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking methods, this program helps employees come up with powerful thinking results. By directing their thought process away from the barriers of traditional thinking, this training will help in making the employees self dependent. Mentioned below are a few things that employees will learn:

• To separate emotions and ego from facts

• Think about unconventional solutions for any challenge

• Foresee changes, thereby be better prepared for the future

• Thorough evaluation of ideas, thereby minimizing mistakes

• Execution of work within the timelines and budgets of any project

Facilitator Training

Since this type of training is quite intense, it is generally done for a select group of employees. Having learned this process, a facilitator’s role is to help conduct meetings smoothly, ensure everyone’s opinion is being heard, and the objective of the meeting is being met. Thus before conducting these trainings, an organization needs to pick a candidate who can engage participants, is a keen observer and strictly adheres to deadlines.

The skills that are developed during this training are:

• Facilitating Parallel Thinking: He needs to be able to get every participants’ attention while enabling them to think in a comprehensive manner about the challenge in order to get more productive results

• Designing thought processes which will help solve a wide range of challenges
• Ability to direct and focus the thought process and attention of the participants

These new age training methods will certainly help your employees in their overall growth and development.