Training methodologies

An Executive Education interpreter orienting a participant on the ANU campus

The target groups for professional executive courses and programs are both adult learners and people with professional, political and social status. Accordingly, the Convenor’s role will be to facilitate learning, drawing on participant’s intuitive knowledge and experience of both problems and solutions. Executive groups respond best to material that has immediate relevance to their work or which ‘speak’ to their experience.
As well as structured lectures, training techniques will include

• building on participants’ experience through small interactive tutorials, building of a framework of skills or strategies and group discussion, brainstorming and collective workshops in larger groups
• simulation/role playing
• reflexive practice: skills modelled and replicated through supervised practice, then feedback
• basis for further self-study through materials that allow participants to go beyond the initial training (such as the ‘Harvard’ or principle-seeking technique and its alternatives)
• follow-up and self-assessment with trainers after the session
• contextualization of concepts to participants’ environments by means of interactive tutorial sessions with trained facilitators
• facilitated review and summation sessions

Provision of translators and interpreters

All ETP courses are conducted in English, however, for some specially tailored programs, interpretation and translation can be provided as requested.