Drama Based Training

This method of training/knowledge transfer is becoming increasingly popular as it offers a totally different dimension to conventional training programmes.

Drama based training is often used for large-scale behavioural change programmes.  It is also proving particularly useful in diversity and equality training.

Drama based training can be professional role-play, professional and staff role-play or forum theatre.  Whichever type of drama based training you choose, the scenarios acted out will be genuine examples from your business.

Professional Role Play

Professional role-play is a stimulating and realistic training tool that adds an exciting and challenging dimension to training programmes.  Professional role-play can be applied to many areas of business, including - recruitment, negotiation, equality and diversity, appraisal, selling skills, and customer service.  The list is endless...

Professional role-play allows attendees to learn by seeing actors demonstrating real life language and behaviour.  It provides a realistic experience, and helps attendees to prepare for similar situations in future.

Why use Actors?  Actors remove the pressure from attendees, allowing them to concentrate, be absorbed, entertained and educated.  Professional actors also provide honest feedback, whereas work colleagues may only give good feedback for fear of causing offence.

Forum Theatre

Forum Theatre is role-playing with a difference.  It is highly effective, entertaining, energising, memorable and fun.  Forum theatre consists of an audience (you the attendees) a stage (the training room) along with some dynamic and convincing actors and facilitators (that’s us).

Actors perform a carefully scripted real life scenario, relevant to your organisation.   After watching the scenario it is replayed and the audience is actively encouraged to make comments/coach the actors on what they have witnessed.  The scenario can be stopped at any time, rewound, and replayed over and over again.  The audience can make suggestions; influence the words spoken, tone of voice, attitudes, body language, and behaviour of the actors in this safe and non-threatening environment. It gives attendees the opportunity to consider their own attitudes and behaviours and the effect these have in the workplace.

Each script will be researched to reflect your organisational environment, language and culture. Your staff will feel empowered and develop some coaching skills as they challenge the actors so altering their behaviour and creating best practice.

Forum theatre can be used in a variety of ways, such as equality and diversity, customer service skills, recruiting and interviewing techniques, management and staff development, negotiation and sales training.

Forum theatre is also very effective when used for awareness training conferences.

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