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Guidelines for Improving Your Session
Role Play Guidelines
Role play exercises give participants an opportunity to practice all the training
techniques as much as they would in an actual on-job situation. Role plays allow
participants to incorporate techniques into their own styles and to make them "fit"
their own approaches. When feedback techniques are applied in these practice
situations, participants can readily see a number of ways to apply these techniques
and get positive results.
Some of your participants, and perhaps you as well, may have had a negative
experience in the past with role plays. However, when properly set up and ...