Improvements to an annual section training

I once again visited the County Annual Leadership Qualification weekend to deliver the Guide Section training. The concept of the weekend is a really good idea - enabling Leaders to pop in and out or stay for the whole weekend - and the food smelt delicious.

This year I added in Good Guiding is ....... and an introduction to other resources other than GG UK ones in the programme planning including SW Region ones. Yet again it was evident what the new leaders wanted was an understanding of what a basic Guide programme looks like. They were really interested in looking through the GFI's! and what really struck them was the amount of input the girls should have to the programme. 

I enjoyed the session - there were only 3 guide leaders and the time flew by - ran it more like a workshop really. Thanks to Ali for the fab coffee.

Post Safe Space

Ok so there really is a huge amount of content for 3 hours - some crazy leader actually wrote on the feedback form that she wanted longer to be able to have more discussion on individual items! The feedback forms are a bit flawed as they ask how much you enjoyed the content! It proved really useful to have some experienced Leaders who had insights to share. Likewise the young (er) Leaders were able to share a great deal around social media and cyber bullying.

We did use the participants booklets during the training and only 1 out of 12 had printed the booklet to bring to the training. I told everybody to let their DC know they had attended (as well as giving out the certificates) so that GO! could be updated but it turns out that there is someone at County who is happy to receive lists for updating GO!. The recommendation is for a maximum of 15 leaders per session and I can see why as bigger groups would have very little opportunity to input to discussion.
I used some of the slides from the power point training to laminate for demo purposes as I didn't get enough time to borrow a projector and screen

Most of the photocopies were given out so I can see more time on the photocopier - yet more responsibility and expense for the trainer!

It is a good training to deliver.

Before Safe Space Training

Happy New Year

Spent today doing preparation for next weeks Safe Space training - there was a lot of photocopying and some laminating required:

• some reference copies of the participants hand out
• feedback forms
• participant certificates
• what would you do quiz
• blank risk assessment templates
• types of abuse hand out
• GG UK policies to point at
• web safety codes for each section
• cards for code of conduct game
• scenario cards
• "A safe Cyberspace"
• "Be Prepared!"

I decided I needed to have the last 2 so I could wave them at those leaders who don't have access to the members part of the website yet. There is a huge amount of information to cover in 3 hours - hope it doesn't frighten the younger leaders. I will do an evaluation after the training.