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With multiple generations in the training room, attention spans at all-time lows, and multi-tasked populations unable to focus for extended periods of time, it’s critical to design training programs that move with lightning-fast pacing, that alternate learning modalities constantly, that appeal to learners of all ages, and that deliver relevant, emotional, engaging, and entertaining learning. And yet, most training design methods are created following the cumbersome, sequential, old-style, paint-by-numbers ADDIE model. The common result is boring, sterile, bullet-point tedium that misses the mark with learners. In this session, discover how you can remain true to the intent of ADDIE while reinventing instructional design so your programs speak to today’s learners. Attend this workshop and learn how to design programs that deliver the learning they want and the results you need.
The facilitator knows something about designing training for personnel who would rather be doing anything instead of learning. In Lenn’s experience, writing training for Walt Disney Entertainment was fascinating with the characters, parades, fireworks, leadership, finance, orientation, and more. But it also required a more engaging approach than the normal training audience. Entertainers are not known for their ability to sit through lectures. The training programs Lenn designed had to be inspirational, memorable, and motivating. Applying his entertainment background, his Learnertainment™ methodology, and brain learning theory, Lenn developed his own methodology, and using that methodology, he created programs that participants actually asked to repeat again.
Join us and learn how to go beyond the ADDIE model training and create your own instructional MAGIC.
Segment One: Message – Identify the emotional core of the subject to be taught
Segment Two: Anticipation – Thrust the participants into the experience
Segment Three: Guidance – Teach the most critical must-know information
Segment Four: Investigation – Validate and expand on the information presented
Segment Five: Customization – Identify and plan personal application
“A Disney Inspired Approach to Learning: The Learners’ Declaration of Rights shared great information. I got more than a couple of ideas that will be very helpful to me as I design trainings!”
Connie G.
Special Populations Prevention Educator
Women’s Services, Inc
“Lenn’s presentation [Speak Like a Mouse: Eight Strategies to Pixie-Dust Your Presentations] provided easy-to-implement tweaks to our training programs. These tips will improve learning impact and also be well received by staff!”
Catherine R.
Trainer
Department of Education
“[Mousify Your Instructional Design for MAGICal Results] gave me a new way to look at approaching the training engagement process. Thanks.”
Stewart B.
Corporate Trainer
Veterans Canteen Service
HRDQ-U workshops offer an interactive and in-depth look at the challenges of today’s workplace. Like our webinars, our workshops are presented by industry experts, but our workshops are specifically designed for active learning, allowing participants to practice new skills, ask questions, receive immediate feedback, and engage with the content. This interactive format ensures a more personalized learning experience and helps participants feel more confident in their skills and in the application of what they’ve learned.
Limited seating ensures high levels of detailed learning and interaction.
Connect with your instructor and classmates via webcam and microphone for active learning.
Each workshop participant receives a free certificate of completion as recognition of attendance.
Schedule a coaching session with the presenter to help you apply what you've learned.
This workshop qualifies for 3 SHRM credit hours, which is included at no additional cost when you attend.
HRDQ-U is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDC) for SHRM-CP®️ or SHRM-SCP®️ recertification activities.
Lenn Millbower, the Mouse Man™ and author of Care Like a Mouse, teaches Walt Disney-inspired service, leadership, innovation, training, and success strategies. Everything Disney touched seems magical. It isn’t. It’s a method. Lenn saw that method up close. He spent 25 years at Walt Disney World as an Epcot Operations trainer, Disney-MGM Studios stage manager, Animal Kingdom opening crew, Disney Institute, Disney University, and Walt Disney Entertainment management. Now, he shares methodologies that will help you make your own magic.
Connect with Lenn on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and at www.likeamouse.com
Lenn Millbower is the founder and president of Offbeat Training – an organization specializing in teaching Disney methodology so that business professionals can make their own magic. Lenn’s clients call him the “Mouse Man”, as he learns his clients’ pain points and shares solutions that Disney applied to similar issues. His combination of strategic insights and tactical solutions is always highly engaging and entertaining.
Learn more at offbeattraining.com
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This workshop builds upon Lenn Millbower’s webinar, What Would Disney Do? Eight Strategies that Pixie-Dust Your Training. Lenn discusses how you can apply Disney-inspired techniques to energize your training programs and produce real behavior changes in others.
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