WEEK 175
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Mediation Training involves lots of planning.
Planning with an identified strategy brings in a remarkable difference to the quality of training.
Step 1
Identify the plan
Share the plan with co trainers / persons to be involved for implementation of the plan.
Make everyone understand the plan as it requires to be understood.
See to it that everyone is on the same page.
Step-2
Break:
Break the plan into several workable parts
Step-3
Delegate
Decide who has to do what
Step-4
Feedback
Get feed back from each one regarding (i) Difficulties (if any ) faced (ii) How did they overcome the challenges (iii) Suggestions for future successful implementation .
EXAMPLE:-
Conducting a role play
1)Identify the plan
Select a role play- Share it with all the co trainers in advance. Discuss with co trainers what is the objective to be achieved ( Strategy) through the role play.
It could be making the participants understand different types of negotiation.
2) Break-
In each group ask one of the participants to be a co operative negotiator and the other one to be competitive negotiator.
After some time ask both the participants to be competitive.
Then ask the participants to be co operative negotiators.
Time: Allocate specific time for each type of negotiation.
3) Delegate
i) Assign who has to do which part.
ii) How they have to monitor time.
iii) How they have to give instructions to move from one type of negotiation to another
(pre briefing).
iv) Who has to do debriefing- What should be the objective and element of de briefing.
4) Feedback
Get feed back from the co trainers.
Get feedback from the participants.
Give your personal feedback.
“Strategy without process is little more than a wish list.”
Robert Filek
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