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Setting the Stage for Learning 89
IMPORTANT PROGRAM INFORMATION
Please follow these guidelines to assist in the facilitation of this workshop. Thank you.

Bob Lucas—Your Facilitator

• Find a seat where you are most comfortable, yet can fully participate in the program.
• Sit next to someone whom you do not know (Networking is so much FUN!!!).
• Switch your brain to the creative training mode before entering the room.

• Be prepared to share and gain new ideas with your peers.
• Upon entry into the room, go around and respond to each flip-charted question by placing a single
vertical mark, where applicable (e.g., “l”).
• On the 3 × 5 card given as you entered the room, please write something you expect from the
workshop (i.e., one thing I expect from this workshop is . . .). Deposit the card in the box on the
chair by the entrance as you enter the room.

WARNING ✧✧✧ WARNING ✧✧✧ WARNING ✧✧✧ WARNING
Entry into this program could change your views on how to conduct training and give presentations.
People who are. . .

Set in their ways
Unwilling to share their knowledge

Of the belief that learning must always be serious
Reluctant to have FUN
. . . may want to grab some coffee and go for a walk!!

FIGURE 3-1. Entry handout

of issues and needs directly from learners. I can then either incorporate their feedback
into my session or address them in my opening remarks. If expectations are raised that are
not part of the program, I list those issues on a flip chart page titled “Important Issues.”
I also explain that although the items are not planned for the session, they are impor-
tant (thus, the flip chart page IMPORTANT issues) and will be addressed if time permits.
If not, I explain that they may be the basis of future sessions, which will be researched.
An alternative to this approach is to place 3 × 5 cards on tables before you begin your
session. Have each participant take one and write a question, concern, or expectation re-
lated to the session and place it back into the center of the table. As you have each person
stand to introduce him or herself to the group, ask him or her to select a card randomly