where should you begin to learn key components for this course, lead 325?

Relational Skills

The kind of relational skills that leaders need goes beyond a firm handshake and remembering names. Leading well means being able to stay appropriately connected to people who are different from you, even those who oppose you. It means listening deeply to others.

Self-Management

In the same way, leadership is not about controlling other people or getting people to do what we want. For sure, it is the leaders’ role to mobilize others around a shared vision. In pursuit of a shared vision leaders often make two mistakes. One mistake is that they announce the vision, like Moses coming down off the mountain.

Introduction

Welcome once again, everyone, to another episode of Train Like You Listen, a podcast about all things learning and development in bite-sized chunks. I’m Brian Washburn, I’m your host. I’m also the Co-founder of Endurance Learning and also the author of a book called What’s Your Formula? Combine Learning Elements For Impactful Training.

What is a Lesson Plan?

Now, let’s get into lesson plans. What are they, and what should actually go in them? So I would define a lesson plan as a planning tool that includes several key elements to keep your live training session organized. So it can be used for in-person training, it can be used for virtual training.

Overall Session Goals

Some of the key components that you should have for a lesson plan include: first of all, the overall session goals. So this is a component that sets the overall direction and purpose for your training session.

Learning Objectives

Then, another thing that it should include is specific, observable, learner-centered learning objectives. I talked about learning objectives in a previous episode and went more in-depth in those. Learning objectives are different than the goal for your presentation.

Sequence and Flow of Activities

Another component that is really important for a lesson plan – and this is really the meat of a lesson plan – is really the sequence and flow of your activities. So, some people like to just use a bulleted list of talking points, other people like a verbatim script.

Materials Needed for the Session

And then a final component that I include in my lesson plans is materials for the session. This is just a good reminder of which handouts you might need.

Assessment

One other section that I’ve seen other people use – I don’t necessarily use it in a lot of my lesson plans, but I’ve definitely seen it and I could see the importance of it, is a section for asse s sment.