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Guidelines for Improving Your Session
Leading a Discussion
Trainers, managers, and team leaders need to be skillful discussion facilitators. As a
trainer, you need to keep the participants focused on the subject, solicit everyone's
ideas, keep the discussion moving, and bring it to a conclusion.
The discussion portion of a training session is a critical component. During discussion,
you can elicit participants' opinions and discern their knowledge level. After
completing an activity, such as a role play or simulation, the discussion brings out
what each participant discovered and learned from the activity.
Being a successful discussion ...