Our Model
The New Design Imperative
The New Design Imperative
Our Model
How to Build a H.I.V.E.
Holistic
Interactive
Vibrant
Experience
Buzzing! Busy! Full Of Life!
TVF purposefully chose a beehive as an analogy for our design model. There is tremendous focus, determination, vitality, and simplicity as bees build and sustain a hive.
Designers can get so wrapped up around the content, models, and information. The learner is almost an after-thought. We leave it up to the facilitator to find additional approaches to make the material come alive, become relevant, and weave it all together.
To be blunt the designer needs to design for the learner AND the facilitator. The virtual space requires a thorough understanding of brain science and virtual facilitation techniques, and building those into the design. It’s not enough to just focus on the content. It must be a holistic, integrated approach; design and delivery.
Overarching Objective
Key Content
Cognitive Engagement
Left Brain: 30% of Program Time Allocation: You have the mic.
The left brain is where the information comes in. The left brain is verbal, analytical, logical, and factual.
Of our 5 senses, 50% of our brain is devoted to sight ,our eyes, what we see.
Therefore, it is imperative that we design a combination of intriguing, VIVID visuals, key words, and questions, NOT headers with bullets or sentences below. As John Medina states in his book Brain Rules, “People don’t pay attention to boring things.”
Socio-Emotional Engagement
Right Brain: 70% of Program Time Allocation: They have the mic.
This is where all the action is! The right brain is where learning takes place. The right brain is creative, imaginative, intuitive, and emotional.
It is where personal connections must be made to the content through a variety of involvement tactics, not just engagement.
Participants practice, challenge their thinking, identify the application of the content to their world relative to the Overarching Objective.
Virtual Facilitation Tactics
Facilitator questions, connections, and transitions not speaker notes.
Designers carefully craft questions and transitions for facilitators to debrief activities, small group work, applications, challenge perspectives, drive dialog, and encourage healthy debate. It all about creating a thinking “classroom.” Apply an appreciative inquiry approach.
Analogy: Facilitators, be the conductor that brings the orchestra of participants to life.
Learn more about how this model can Revolutionize your Virtual Training
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