Universal Review Activities

Time:
This exercise will take about 10 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 15 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To allow participants to reflect upon what they have learnt and create a plan for implementing the learning with clear goals and timescales.
• To identify the additional support they will need in order to achieve their goals.

Group Size:
Suitable for use with groups of any size.

Useful For:
Anyone attending a course or workshop.

You'll Need:
• Plenty of spare copies of the Action Plan handout provided.

Notes:
We recommend that you repeat this exercise in short bursts at regular intervals throughout the training, rather than leave it to the very end of the event when participants will be tired and more inclined to be thinking about their journey home.

Time:
This exercise will take about 20 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 25 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To allow participants to review what they learnt during training and what actions they will be taking as a result.
• To help participants identify 3 achievements from the training.

Group Size:
Suitable for groups of up to 10 participants.

You'll Need:
• A camera or smartphone to record the interviews.

Notes:
You’ll need everyone’s email address so that you can send the video clips and evaluation sheets to them after the training.

Time:
This exercise will take about 15 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 30 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To review knowledge, share feedback or quiz participants.
• To assess current awareness of a situation or challenge.

Group Size:
This module can be used with groups of up to 24 participants.

Useful For:
Any situation where you want to inject some fun and humour whilst testing your participants’ knowledge or awareness.

You'll Need:
• To pre-prepare a series of questions, each with multiple answers.

Notes:
Developed to share customer feedback with our team, this is also a great activity to use in any situation where you want to run a quiz where questions have more than one answer. For example, you could use it to test participants’ knowledge of the main features of a product or service, or to remind teams of their successes.

Remote/Virtual Delivery:
There is a Remote Delivery version of this module available in Trainers’ Library called Let's See if it's There.

Time:
This exercise will take about 25 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 30 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To articulate what participants have learnt and what the subject means to them now.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 20 participants.

You'll Need:
• Flipchart paper, colourful pens and coloured stickers or shapes.

Notes:
As a variation, you can ask your participants to create a collage, instead of a drawing. If you choose this option you will also need a collection of old magazines, postcards, birthday cards etc., scissors and glue.

Time:
This exercise will take about 45 minutes to complete (see trainer notes). In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 50 minutes for completion (see trainer notes).

Aims:
• To encourage participants to review their key learning points from the training.
• To provide participants with tips for ways to apply what they've learnt back in the workplace.

Group Size:
Suitable for use with groups of up to 15 participants.

You'll Need:
• A camera or smartphone to video the interviews.
• A clock, stopwatch or timer.

Notes:
There are two ways to run this activity. For longer courses (a full day or longer) we recommend using the full version of the activity. For shorter training sessions, miss out Stage 2 and/or Stage 3.

This activity is particularly suited to reviewing learning around Project Management but can be easily adapted to almost any training.

Time:
This exercise will take about 15 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 20 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To remind participants of their key learning points and action points from the course or workshop.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of almost any size.

You'll Need:
• A4 sheets of paper in various colours.
• Glue sticks.
• Fine black marker pens.
• One A4 envelope.

Time:
This exercise will take about 10 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 25 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To creatively summarise their key learning points from the course or workshop.

Group Size:
This module can be used with groups of almost any size.

You'll Need:
• Nothing other than the materials provided.

Time:
This exercise will take about 10 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 15 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To remind participants of key learning points from the training and/or their action points.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of almost any size.

You'll Need:
• A selection of picture postcards, one postcard per participant, and a few spare ones. (Select postcards with a variety of images: Animals, countryside, coastal scenes, historic buildings, modes of transport, etc.)

Notes:
Thank you to Barbara Buffton for suggesting this exercise.

Time:
This exercise will take about 15 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 30 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To encourage participants to reflect on learning they’ve experienced.
• To review the key learning points from training.
• To encourage participants to think about the next steps they’ll take to implement the learning.

Group Size:
This module can be used with groups of between 8 and 25 participants.

Useful For:
Staff at all levels.

You'll Need:
• We recommend using the Spinning Wheel for this activity, though it’s not essential.
• To prepare the Question Cards in advance of the training.

Notes:
The questions we’ve provided in this activity are suggestions only and you do not have to include all categories. It is recommended that, if including the blue ‘facts’ category, you add further questions specific to your learning content.

Remote/Virtual Delivery:
There is a Remote Delivery version of this module available in Trainers’ Library.

Time:
This exercise will take about 10 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 15 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• For participants to feel confident that they can successfully implement what they have learnt.

Group Size:
This module can be used with groups of almost any size.

Useful For:
Staff at all levels.

You'll Need:
• 2 cardboard stars or star shaped post it notes for each participant.
• Blu tack will also be needed if you use the cardboard stars.

Notes:
The perfect time to use this exercise is just before participants make final adjustments to their action plans.

Time:
This exercise will take about 5 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 15 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To understand why attending training is not enough; the learning needs to be implemented.
• To identify the behaviour changes that are needed to be made following the training to achieve goals.

Group Size:
This module can be used with groups of almost any size.

You'll Need:
• We recommend creating an example action plan linked to the training subject prior to running this activity.

Notes:
Use this activity at any point in the training to introduce action planning. We recommend not leaving it until the end of the programme.

Time:
This exercise will take about 10 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 15 minutes to complete this review.

Aims:
• To encourage participants to review the learning and remind themselves of key learning points or action points from the course or workshop.

Group Sizes:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to about 20 participants.

You'll Need:
• A selection of sweets with various coloured wrappers – enough sweets for each person to take at least two. (Avoid using nut-based sweets due to the risk of allergy.)

Time:
This exercise will take about 20 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 40 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To encourage participants to reflect on learning they’ve experienced, and how they are going to use it.

Group Size:
This module can be used with groups of up to 25 participants.

Useful For:
Staff at all levels.

You'll Need:
• To make sure participants have access to the tools and resources they need for this exercise, if you want them to complete it during the training session.

Notes:
This could be a task that participants complete in their own time outside the learning session, in which case we recommend that you arrange a review session where the results are shared and where you build on these with some action planning activities to conclude the training programme.

Remote/Virtual Delivery:
There is a Remote Delivery version of this module available in Trainers’ Library.

Time:
This exercise will take about 15 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 25 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To provide participants with an opportunity to reflect upon the impact of the training so far and remind themselves of their key learning points and action points resulting from the course or workshop.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of almost any size.

You'll Need:
• Coloured clay or Plasticine.
• Wet wipes.
• A camera.