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TOT 165-Week 165
SEGMENTATION AND SEGREGATION
Temptation to serve everything that is prepared , and that too all at once spoils the quality of presentation.
It is not bad to think of speaking about all the thoughts that are chosen by the speaker for a given presentation. The point to be focused here is “ How do you put forth the thoughts within the available time ?”
Training stands out from other modes for acquisition of knowledge. A specific competence is required to be transferred from the trainer to the trainee during the training. In a training, it is ‘then and there’.
Segregation and segmentation are two important elements which cannot be ignored in any presentation which is part of any training program.
Segmentation in the context of presentation includes preparing blocks for each of the topics and subtopics.
Segregation , in the context of presentation in training ideally means maintaining a healthy boundary wall between one topic to another/ one sub topic to another, with occasional permitted transitions. Removing all that can be and has to be removed from each block. Finding a befitting place for every thought .
How is it done?
Segmentation: Trainer takes out the topics and the sub topics. Puts them into different segments. Arranges the blocks in an order.
Segregation: (i)Works seriously on the thought process .(ii) Segregates.. (iii)Which thought is to be introduced where. (iv)Which thought can be grouped with which thought. (v)What is to be said when and where. (vi) What should not be brought in which segment .
How to demonstrate use of these two techniques during the presentation?
(i)Pick up a topic/sub topic .(ii) Name the topic/sub topic (iii) Give general introduction (iv) Explain the concept(v) Give example or exercise related to it (vi) Conclude the topic/sub topic (vii) Go to the next topic/sub topic (viii) repeat the steps (ii) to (vii).
Link all the subtopics under one sub topic at the end of the presentation.
Advantages:
The canvased points reach the trainees easily.
Confusion is avoided.
They do not see many / different ideas/thoughts/ scattered here there and everywhere.
Trainees get specific inputs.
To remember:-
No one will be prepared to pick up the best from the rest.
Presentation cannot be too taxing and tiring for the trainees to comprehend.
Trainees cannot be expected to separate the grain from the chaff.
Trainer is expected to serve the trainees , only the grains.
Anything that is not taken by the trainees is a waste.
“We need to be careful with our thoughts and words-cannot afford to go waste”.
SLAMW
Training of Trainers in Mediation 