Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - 12:30
Senior Lecturer at the School of Business, Dr Paul Donovan, shows trainers how to use movies to improve role play in his latest article for the winter issue of Training and Development, published by the Irish Institute of Training and Development.
In this article, Dr Donovan shows how to use reflective ‘time outs’ as used in blockbuster movies, such as The Matrix and Men in Black, to interrupt the ongoing role play in the training room to give the learner a chance to reflect on how they are doing and how they might improve in the next round. Critical features of the approach include effective mentoring and giving the learner control over when to call the ‘time-out.’