HOR TO ORGANIZE AND RUW TRAINING WORKSHOPS A WICEP Guide Prepared by Training Section Decenber 1987How to Organize & Run Training Workshops A UNICEF Guide FOREWARD Gremlins Abound in Workshopping ape and weve learnt quite a lot about how to run successful training ee Noth SPPropriate seriousness these pearls of wisdom I'm about to cast hofore you! X£ you're looking for serious problems, try and organize a workshop. in New York or in a Regional Office or even a large country office. Especially try and make sure the office is located in a place with plenty of other gttractions such as Bangkok or Rio de Janeiro. Unless you're prepared to import an Irish wolfhound or two for each small group of participants to keep another coang, Contribution. You'll also find a correlation with punctus!ity, saeeer common gremlin of workshops. What do you do at 9:18 acm. whos che peruty Executive Director has been sitting for 20 minutes and ready to nove a Presentation to 28 trainees, 19 of whom are represented by empty chaive? There are of course sone interesting personality traits that quickly Scauire the status of “malignant gremlin" in UNICEF workshopping = dha eve member who knows nothing about the topic and displays this loudly at length Guring the workshop; the staff member who knows everything about’ tne topic but Soesnit wish to share it: the staff member who treats the particulae workshop precise a8 merely a diving board from which to spring off onto matters ee best tangential to the point of issue and the staff menber who delights in iigatifying ambiguities in workshop exercises and seizing upon the incte jikely explanation as the point of departure for the exercice, Countless are sre acants I have, as session moderator, been called upon to compere apples and oranges because of this gremlin. fit the sockets in the Rurbania workshop hall and there are co ase plugs or coerce thee for those that broke en route. Needless to say these geeniane are oil besed ne iP chart alternatives were renenbered but the marker poss are oil-based and spread and smudge alarmingly. Timing is 8 ubiquitous gremlin that causes time to expand and contract ee