Gagne Lesson Plan

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Gagne’s Model
Lesson Plan


Gain Attention
Counseling is an important responsibility of all leaders. Each of you have been counseled at some time in your careers and/or personal lives and many have already or soon will counsel. Unfortunately leaders reserve counseling for circumstances involving poor performance problems. This has led to a wide spread perception that counseling is negative. In this training you will learn how to counsel your subordinates in a manner that focuses on subordinate centered communication and subordinate development.

Exercise One (Brain Teaser) (page 3 of participants guide) serves as an icebreaker to help the participant’s prepare for learning.

We will have a getting acquainted exercise, allowing everyone in the class to introduce themselves and describe different locations of assignment and present unit of assignment. It will be made very clear during this portion of the class that there is no rank in the class room, and what happens in the classroom must stay in the classroom.

Describe Goal
The major goal for this workshop is to ensure that employees learn how to not only conduct counseling sessions, but how to prepare for them as well. This will help people at all levels focus on individual and company goal accomplishment. This workshop will provide participants with the skills necessary to prepare themselves for, and to conduct thorough counseling sessions.

Stimulate Recall of Prior Knowledge
The initial objective, is to get the class participants acquainted with each other and to realize that there is a great deal of diversity represented in the class. In addition, the instructor will get the class to realize that they all play an important role within their organization and that they have many diverse backgrounds, and actually will better themselves and their organization by conducting thorough counseling.

Present Materials to be learned
Exercise One ...