The beginning of a TBR-styled course utilises activities and content that do these 2 things. With one or more C1-Connection activities, we prepare people to learn. We help learners become comfortable with the peculiar environment that is a formal classroom or training room (usually a roomful of strangers). If nothing in the environment changes after about 10 minutes, learners will pay less attention to it. For example, if your team is sat around a big table passively watching someone type story details on the screen…. or listening to just 1 or 2 people talk for longer than 10 minutes you begin to lose people.

Finally, 4C is conclusion - making the learning real. You give the learner the space to consider "How will they use it?" I especially like to focus on one very specific actionable item that I know they can complete and suggest they make an authentic commitment to doing so. Very dynamic! Great ideas to bring our training alive.” Michelle Thompson, Executive Director, San Diego Regional Training Center, CA Design retrospective techniques – Acquire the knowledge and understanding to use and design retrospectives techniques depending on a team’s context, enabling learners to build trust and work through common pitfalls. Change of any kind, including a change to working Agile, is perceived by the brain as extreme novelty. And we are hard-wired to resist change. The error detection systems in the brain light up when there is something new or unusual in your environment making us extremely resistant to change. And, if this error detection system fires too often, it brings on a constant state of anxiety or fear. That's the whole book really, though it does have lots of “ways to step aside an let them learn.” Out of the 65 activities, I connected with (and will try to use) about a dozen.

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C3 – CONCRETE PRACTICE: This step goes hand-in-hand with the one before it. As the brain learns new information, it immediately begins the trial-and-error application of that information to the physical world. Over two days, this interactive in-person course runs from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm (UK). We allow for regular breaks throughout each day. Please note that each course date’s start and finish times refer to the GMT zone.

During the training, teach them only what they need to know, keep each part very short, then break it up with an interactive exercise. Facilitate Agile Meetings – Design and facilitate Agile meetings in various contexts and for varied team maturity levels Fun, energetic, very educational – excellent facilitator with a wealth of knowledge about adult learning.” Carmen Grandison-Johnson,Training Consultant, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, NHimplicit or explicit policies, for example:commitment and delivery points, demand shaping policies, Definition of Ready Done, Acceptance Criteria,WiP limits, Classes of Service, and whatever makes sense to the team

How did that ice-breaker make you feel? Can you remember a single thing that anyone else said? Did the activity make you feel connected to the other learners or to the topic of the class? Did it make you feel safe? Three before Me: When a learner asks a question during the lecture, stop and say, “Before I answer this question, let’s take three answers from the group.” Accept all answers, then add your own one to the mix. Before I explain what a C1-Connection really is, let me pause here and ask you, the reader, a question. I’d like you to think of a time when you have attended a workshop or a course where the instructor directed you to do an introductory “ice-breaker.” For example, “Interview the person next to you and then you’ll introduce them to the rest of the group”. Or worse still, “Let’s go round the room — please state your name, job role and a why you are here”. So how does the human brain learn? I think in many different ways. Having a fit for purpose experience is of critical importance.C2 – Concepts: You’ll have learners take in new information in multi-sensory ways: listening, seeing, talking, writing, drawing, choosing, reflecting, asking and answering questions, to name a few.