Making it Pop - Debriefing Experiential Learning (LAUS19)

Imagine this: a room full of participants thinking deeply about new concepts and insights you just introduced, connecting that learning to their own life, and creating a plan to apply it in the very near future. Sounds great right?

An effective debrief takes work to design and execute.
Many popular theories of adult learning and instructional design emphasize the importance of a debrief but do not provide trainers with a deeper toolkit of how to accomplish it. Join this train-the-trainer session to understand and experience debriefing techniques from such training luminaries as Jerry Weinberg, Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan and Sharon Bowman.

In this session you will experience and examine different types of experiential learning. You will learn several ways to facilitate a debrief. You will leave with a short effective debrief that can be used in almost any situation. You will also hear a few very entertaining and educational stories of debriefing failures!
Come learn more how to create debriefs training with these powerful techniques!
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Transcript

1. Making it Pop! Debriefing Experiential Learning Lean Agile US February 2019 Jenny Tarwater @JennyKCMO Welcome! Please introduce yourself to your table mates and explore this question: What was the BEST EXPERENTIAL LEARNING you have had? Describe that with five words or less.
2. Lean Agile US February 2019 Jenny Tarwater @JennyKCMO Making it Pop! Debriefing Experiential Learning Making it Pop! Debriefing Experiential Learning
3. Thanks to Bloris Gloger for creating the original Ball Point Game.
4. Jenny Tarwater Collaboration Coach I am licensed as… • Agile Fluency Game Facilitator • Master Game Designer (Innovation Games) • Training from the Back of the Room Instructor I share games … • 6 X Agile Games New England • Scrum Gathering • Agile Alliance • Big Apple Scrum Day • Agile Maine Day • Organizer: Agile Game Night @JennyKCMO
5. “We love experiential learning …. the way the learning sticks with the learner, to be available when it’s most needed.” @JennyKCMO
6. Experiential learning is the process of learning through experience, and is more specifically defined as "learning through reflection on doing.” - Wikipedia @JennyKCMO
7. @JennyKCMO
8. During learning, everyone “pops” at a different times - Mary Donnici @JennyKCMO
9. Today we will … @JennyKCMO
10. Working Agreement
11. Exercise #1 @JennyKCMO
12. @JennyKCMO Debrief: • How did you feel? • What happened? • What did you learn? • How does this relate to your real life? • What if…. • What’s next? @JennyKCMO
13. Sivasailam Thiagarajan 6 Step Debrief Thiagi @JennyKCMO
14. @JennyKCMO 1. How did you feel? 2. What happened? 3. What did you learn? 4. How does this relate to your real life? 5. What if? 6. What next? 6 Step Debrief Thiagi @JennyKCMO
15. We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience. John Dewey, Educator and Philosopher “ @JennyKCMO
16. Why debrief? @JennyKCMO
17. @JennyKCMO
18. @JennyKCMO
19. OUTCOMES OF A NOT SO GREAT DEBRIEF • Training is stupid!!! L • WTH just happened? • Am I the dense one? • OMG they’ll ask ME a question! • I may die sitting here all day… @JennyKCMO
20. OUTCOMES OF A GREAT DEBRIEF • Create a shared experience • Learn about yourself • Learn about others • Learn what you know • Learn what you don’t know • Identify blind spots • Alter thought patterns @JennyKCMO
21. Goals, values, beliefs, conceptual frameworks Action Strategies and techniques Why we do what we do What we do Results and Consequences What we obtain Single-Loop Learning Most common learning style, problem solving Double-Loop Learning More than problem solving, this learning style reevaluates and reframes goals, values, etc. Double-Loop Learning @JennyKCMO
22. @JennyKCMO 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Exercise #2 @JennyKCMO
23. @JennyKCMO Prompts: I felt ___________________________________________ I learned _______________________________________ I can use _______________________________________ I plan to _______________________________________ Journal Entry Activity #2 @JennyKCMO
24. @JennyKCMO Exercise and Prompts courtesy of Sharon Bowman Creator, Training from the Back of the Room @JennyKCMO
25. @JennyKCMO 1, 2, 4, All @JennyKCMO
26. @JennyKCMO The Goal: to help the learner to take ownership of and synthesize the information for themselves and their peers. @JennyKCMO
27. Exercise #3 Soup or salad and bread @JennyKCMO
28. @JennyKCMO • How did you feel? • What happened? • What did you learn? @JennyKCMO
29. @JennyKCMO Debrief style of Gerald M. Weinberg @JennyKCMO
30. @JennyKCMO • Exploration • Assimilation (Invention) • New Knowledge (Application) @JennyKCMO
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32. Kolb’s Experiential Learning Style Theory Concrete Experience (doing / having an experience) Reflective Observation (reviewing / reflecting on the experience) Abstract Conceptualization (concluding / learning from the experience) Active Experimentation (planning / trying out what you have learned) @JennyKCMO
33. 5 Tips & Tricks
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36. Don’t play “Guess what I’m thinking” - Derek W Wade @derekwwade Founder, Kumido Adaptive Strategies @JennyKCMO
37. Debrief >= The Activity @JennyKCMO
39. Diversity & Inclusion
40. KEEP IT SIMPLE… OR MIX IT UP! @JennyKCMO
41. What came up for you today? @JennyKCMO
42. Where we have been today…
43. Without an effective debrief, a simulation is just recreation. Derek W. Wade
44. @JennyKCMO Thank you! Jenny Tarwater @JennyKCMO www.linkedin.com/en/JennyTarwater
45. @JennyKCMO References for the Content • Experiential Learning by Jerry Weinberg • Jolts! Activities to Wake Up and Engage Your Participants by Sivasailam Thiagarajan • Training from the Back of the Room by Sharon Bowman • Liberating Structures - http://www.liberatingstructures.com/ • Kolb Learning Cycle - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131513002984 Jolts • Perspective http://www.thiagi.com/games/2017/8/10/do-you-jolt • Soup/Salad/Bread https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/articles/advantages-of-user-stories-for- requirements/comments • Number Line – Training from the Back of the Room Class, Sharon Bowman References
46. @JennyKCMO Games in Session Intro • The Ball Point Game - https://scrumology.com/from-the-archives-the-ball-point-game/ • Letters/Number Games - https://lithespeed.com/the-name-game-a-multitasking-game-for-agile-teams/ • Paper Airplane Game - https://agilefaq.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/paper-plane-game/ • Penny Passing Game - http://kc.agilehood.org/a-pitcher-of-kool-aid-for-20-cents/ Games in Jenny Intro • Agile Fluency Game - https://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Agile-Fluency-Game-Now-Available.html • Innovation Games - https://www.innovationgames.com/resources/innovation-games-book/ • Training from the Back of the Room - http://bowperson.com/ • Jenny’s Previous Conference Sessions - http://www.blueshiftinnovation.com/jenny-tarwater/ Games Mentioned in the Session • No Estimates Game - https://mattphilip.wordpress.com/noestimates-game/ • Marshmallow Challenge - https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower?language=en • Distributed Marshmallow Challenge - https://www.slideshare.net/markkilby/communicating-and-collaborating-how- distributed-teams-can-thrive-kilbyhorowitz • Committed Sardines Game - http://agilecomplexificationinverter.blogspot.com/2018/04/committed-sardines-game.html • Lego City - https://www.lego4scrum.com/ Game Mentioned Briefly in the Session