How to Prepare for the Seminar

SEGMENT

HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE SEMINAR

What do you need to do to prepare for the seminar? How should you

use the lesson plans? What information will be available for you to

review? What skills do you need to practice?

Spend adequate

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time preparing every

time you facilitate

Read the information about preparing for the seminar. Use the

this seminar

Checklist (Segment 5) as your tool to ensure you have done

READ through the

everything required for adequate preparation.

lesson plans once,

now, to better

USE THE LESSON PLANS

comprehend the

remainder of this

Guide

Attachments 1-3 are the lesson plans you will use during the training

portion of "Orient Team" (TTJA Step 1). You MUST spend adequate

time preparing to teach these lessons, especially to build in the examples

described in the next section ("Review Available Information"). We

suggest you read through the lesson plans once, now, to see the "big

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picture" of what you will be doing during the TTJA seminar. (This will

also help you determine how much time it will take you to prepare for

teaching the lessons.) The lesson plans provide detailed information on

job analysis, TTJA, Nominal Group Technique, and consensus decision-

making. Reading the lesson plans will help improve your comprehension

of the remainder of this Facilitator Guide.

We suggest the lead and co-Facilitators team-teach the lessons so

participants will be comfortable with both people. The table on the next

page shows a suggested way of dividing the lessons among the two

Facilitators. CAUTION: In order to do a good job of instructing and

facilitating the workshop, both Facilitators must be intimately familiar

with everything in each lesson plan and not just the sections they teach.

Suggested plan for

When teaching, follow the lesson plans because they have been carefully

team-teaching the

designed to help team members succeed during the workshop (making

lessons

the workshop more efficient and pleasant, and resulting in a usable end

product). The lessons will also help the observers understand how the

task list should be used in the training program and what information

they need to explain when conducting their own TTJA seminars.

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