NEW - ETC Resources
Your Go-To Source for Training Activities and Ideas!
We understand the challenge of creating or updating your workshops and wanting fresh ideas for openings, closings, or ways to review content, only to spend frustrating hours searching the internet or scouring books. That’s where ETC Resources comes in. We’ve categorised over 400 activities, so you can quickly find exactly what you’re looking for.
We even have a whole category of 60+ ‘Ready To Go – No Prep’ activities—perfect for when you need something on the spot! These activities are updated weekly with new content to keep things fresh.
PLUS, with ETC Resources, you’ll also be able to:
👉 Join our Community WhatsApp Group: Ask questions, help others, get updates, share successes, and more!
👉 Participate in the bi-monthly Trainer Talk live event: Dive into hot training topics! October’s session: ‘After the Oooohh of AI, what are the implications now for training?’
👉 Drop by our bi-monthly Virtual Café: Grab a virtual coffee and chat with members from around the world. It’s a great chance to network and connect.
👉 Receive a Weekly Roundup: Stay updated with what’s happening and what’s coming up in the Community.
Only £6.00 per month (plus VAT if you're a UK resident)
(approx €7.21, F6.79 CHF, $8.03 USA, $10.85 CAD, $11.60 AUD)
Live Virtual Training - Recordings and Resources
Recorded October 2023
How To Use The New Zoom 2023 Features To Increase Learner Engagement
Expect to Discover (but not limited to) …
- Elevate Chat Engagement – How learners can enrich their chat experience.
- Smart Grouping for Breakout Sessions – How to automatically match learners based upon experience level, response to a question, job role etc.
- Time Management – How to keeping activities on-time.
- Welcome Messages and How-To Videos – How to create a ‘Welcome’ video or library of ‘How-to’s’ directly from inside of Zoom.
- Personalise Your Presence – How to create your own avatar.
- Enhance Your Training with Zoom’s AI Companion – Summaries, Whiteboard Content, and Chat Integration
- Multilingual Presentation and Captions – Present in your preferred language while ensuring learners can view captions in their own language.
Cost - £25 (plus VAT if you reside within the UK) - Approx €29 Euro, $31 USD, $48 AUD
Access to the recording for 1-year.
Recorded September 2023
Microsoft Teams Whiteboard Just Got Better
Drive Engagement And Participation Seamlessly Within A MS Teams Meeting
As trainers, we know that within MS Teams it can be tricky to get engagement and participation unless we move out of Teams and use an on-line app to:
- share ideas as we might on a flipchart.
- brainstorm by writing ideas.
- put into order the stages in a process.
- return to previous work and enhance it working together.
But with the new improved version MS Teams Whiteboard, this is all now possible – and better still, there is no having to go to that external app or interactive PowerPoint slide to do it.
Expect to Discover (but not limited to) …
- How to keep your learners together and all seeing and working on the same part of the whiteboard.
- A feature to keep an activity on-time.
- How to prepare a series of whiteboards that can be used at different times within your training.
- How to use whiteboard templates that can be used over and over to save time and even shared with other trainers.
- How to share whiteboards after your training so that learners can continue to work collaboratively on them.
- What’s new with Sticky Notes and how to use the new features in your training.
Cost - £25 (plus VAT if you reside within the UK)
Recorded August 2023
Magic Tricks For Trainers
How To Grab Your Learners Attention By Seamlessly Integrating Magic Tricks Into Your Workshops.
Get ready-to-use magic tricks that grab your learners’ attention and enrich your content as you add surprise, engagement, and memorability.
Discover how to strategically incorporate magic tricks into your workshop as you create …
- Captivating workshop openings.
- Attention grabbing ways to introduce new content.
- Interactive Reviews.
- Magical Closers.
Cost - £25 (plus VAT if you reside within the UK)
Recorded July 2023
Replenish Your Training Toolbox
8 New Practical Training Activities That You Can Use In Your Very Next Training
As trainers, we are always on the lookout for new activities that we can use at the 4 key phases of any training, the opening, the close, during knowledge transfer and of course at review times.
Expect to leave with (but not limited to):
- 2 New Opening Activities.
- 2 New Closing Activities.
- 2 New Review Activities.
- 2 New Interactive Ways To Transfer Content.
Cost - £25 (plus VAT if you reside within the UK)
Recorded May 2023
How To Use ChatGPT To Help You Design And Facilitate Training – Recording
Chat GPT unlocks new possibilities that will transform your approach to designing and facilitating training. It provides you with the tools and knowledge to create personalised and engaging learner experiences.
This outline and the workshop that you’ll be part of have been created using ChatGPT
Expect to leave with (but not limited to):
- How to access ChatGPT
- How to create specific ChatGPT prompts and conversations.
- How to generate:
-Training title and training outline.
-The welcome message sent to learners.
-The opening, activities and close for the training.
-The content for the training.
-Ideas for adding interaction and engagement into the training.
And Even the Slides for your training.
Structure
As you follow along with the activities, you will start to design a piece of your own training using ChatGPT.
Cost - £25 (plus VAT if you reside within the UK)
Recorded April 2023
How To Create Job Aids That Support Learners In The Workplace
Job aids are simple, clear instructions for doing a particular task. They tend to use graphics and only a few key words. Designed well and used purposefully they remind people how to complete tasks correctly and help avoid workplace mistakes.
But Job Aids are not a substitute for training, so when and how do we create them so that they become a valuable resource.
Expect to Discover (but not limited to):
- What is a Job Aid and when should they be used?
- Different type of Job Aid and which work best for what.
- Strategies for making sure Job Aids get used – aligning with managers
- Gathering information – Ideal outcome, Common errors …
- Selecting the best Job Aid type for the need
- Creating and Testing your Job Aid (the focus of this training)
- Distributing your Job Aid
During the training, you will start to create your own Job Aid. We’ll ask you to use Canva (there’s a free version and we’ll ask you to sign-up for this – don’t worry if you don’t already know how to use Canva). Of course, back in the workplace you can continue using Canva or use PowerPoint, Snagit, Venngage etc
Cost - £25 (plus VAT if you reside within the UK)
Recorded January 2023
How To Create An Escape Room For Training
An escape room, also known as an escape game, puzzle room, exit game, or riddle room is a game in which a team of players discover clues, solve puzzles, and accomplish tasks in one or more rooms in order to accomplish a specific goal in a limited amount of time. The goal is often to escape from the site of the game. (Source Wikipedia)
Escape Rooms are fun, but what if we could still have the fun and excitement of an Escape Room, but used as a training tool to deliver content?
Take part in this recording of the live event and experience a Training Escape Room and from that experience, start to create your own Training Escape Room for your own training content.
Expect to leave with (but not limited to):
- The experience of being part of a Training Escape Room.
- 4 Steps for Creating An Escape Room - and start to create your own Escape Room using them.
- How to use PowerPoint to create your Escape Room (of course, the same ideas apply if you have more sophisticated applications such as Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate etc).
- Tips and Tricks for creating a successful Training Escape Room.
Cost - £25 (plus VAT if you reside within the UK)
Recorded January 2022
A New Training Idea For Every Month of the Year
Here’s just some of what you can expect from the recording:
- Opening Activities
- Presentation, Practice and Performance Activities
- Closing Activities
- Review Activities
- A note making suggestion
Plus a few more along the way (5 additional presentation activities and 14 additional practice ideas)
Plus:
- A convenient eBook with all of the activities and ideas with instructions on how and where to use them.
Cost - £18 (plus VAT if you reside within the UK)
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