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What changes would you make if you were to do this design again? Why?
(Ray) I would add one activity at the end of our workshop and it could be to ask participants
make their oral action plan which means participants will orally present their possible future
plans on strategies they would use in specific stressful situations. According to Brook-Harris and
Stock-ward (1999), action plan as one planning activity could offer opportunity to the
participants to apply the knowledge into their life outside the workshop. And I think oral action
plan could be one easy and effective chance for the speaker and the other participants to review
the knowledge they received from our workshop and apply these knowledge at the same time.
(Yichen) I would make the purposes of our activities more clear. I would make sure that every
objective could be explicitly relate to certain activities on the agenda. In that way, our
participants can clearly see that our objectives correspond to our activities, and we can make sure
that every objective can be met.
For GBTC part, I would save more time for instruction and processing. Since participants from
other countries have never heard of GBTC, they may need more time to learn about this exercise
such as its background without feeling confused. And we also should leave more time for
processing. I would ask them more questions concerning this activity such as how they think this
activity could work to release stress. In that way, they may realize how exercise can release stress
and how this activity fit this scenario and our graduate life. Besides, we ended up using far more
less time than we expected. We could definitely extend the length of our activities.
What are your ideas, suggestions and recommendations for further development of this design?
(Ray) I would state the reasons that we recommend the specific strategy in that specific scenario
more explicitly if possible. Besides, I would also speak more explicitly to our participants that
the three stressful scenarios result from the need assessment so that to make participants feel
more targeted and purposeful.
(Yichen) The energizer of our workshop which is meant to make participants feel stressed out
does not have to be the trivia game we used. Or we can make some improvements of the trivia
game since many participants seemed amused instead of nervous. For example, we can use some
nerve-inducing sound, and add more questions in a round.
The theoretical part of the lecturette could also be compressed a little. Or we could put that part
in handout for participants to check out after the workshop.
I would also suggest to extend the discussion and activity time. So that we could collect more
data from the participants and let them process and apply more.
Describe how the training design process evolved for your team. Include a description of the
individual team member roles in the design, implementation, and evaluation parts of this
training.
How did the team dynamics influence the training?
(Yichen) Since we are all Chinese students, we designed some activity with Chinese
characteristics in our workshop such as GBTC.
How did the team approach conflict throughout this process or difficult situations?
What were the resolutions?
Describe your own teams process of learning and decision making as a group. What collective
learning are you taking away as a team?
(Yichen) each of us took charge of certain part of the workshop design. Within our own part, we
have autonomy. We make decisions about our own part first, and then we came back as a group to
see the workshop design and give suggestions on others part. If the rationale for changes is
validated and agreed by the whole group, we made the changes.