Regional Association Trainings: Understanding Your Audience
Learn how to prepare for regional association trainings by knowing your audience, conducting pre-training surveys, managing instructor/attendee ratios, and leveraging the benefits of diverse pairings to enhance learning outcomes and foster new connections.
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Know Your Audience Preparing for Regional Association Trainings
Your Audience Could Be Your audience may be very diverse unless you have selected to present training for a specific Staff set. They will be approaching ZIMS from very different views and with different needs. Throw in varying degrees of computer skills and ZIMS experience and a successful session can be quite a challenge. We have learned over the years though that a mixed audience is often beneficial overall as they exchange views and ideas with each other.
Pre-Training Survey A pre-training survey can be very helpful You will need to know: Who they are Where they are from How involved their records keeping duties are What ZIMS modules (husbandry, medical, studbook) they are familiar with Number of years experience with using ZIMS Special seating requirements What they want to get out of the training Plus other information as needed Try to get this info at least 2 weeks prior to start
Instructor/Attendee Ratio Presentation PowerPoint, Lecture, Panel Discussion, etc. 1 instructor/10-30 attendees Walk-throughs Instructor led data entry, attendees follow along and enter their own data 2-3 instructors/10 attendees Extra instructors needed to keep all up to speed Exercises Attendee data entry without instructor guidance 2-3 instructors/10 attendees
Advantages to Pairings Fewer computers needed so fewer power sources needed Fewer institutions to create Fewer log ins to create Working with a partner with more or less ZIMS experience can be beneficial to both Working with a partner with different job skills can be eye opening New friendships can be made!
Diversity Works! We have found that pairing attendees with partners of differing skills and job experience often works better than pairing like to like. Pairing a Keeper with a Veterinarian or a Curator with a Registrar expands the horizons for both parties. And pairing someone with little ZIMS experience with someone who is an expert in ZIMS, if the expert is willing to mentor, can be very beneficial.
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