Practical ideas for stimulating quality in training

Peter Sundman , Björn Johansson

Abstract

This article is a summary of ideas for stimulating the quality of training that we have collected from personal experiences, from our colleagues and associates and especially from all the skilful trainers at the SFCT trainers conference in Frankfurt in October 2011. We were fascinated by the rich variety of peda- gogical and ingenious activities! This is a step in collecting and building on what is ‘out there’ in training settings and not a complete list of how to train. Our focus is general and practical, stemming from the SF trainings we have experienced and heard about. These trainings are mostly done within some specific professional field. Interestingly though, trainers in different fields tend to use similar ideas and techniques (Röhrig & Clarke, 2008,
p. 5). Still, every field is unique and these ideas need to be translated and tailored to fit the field in question. For us, the measure of quality in training is the extent to which the teaching and the training supports the trainees learning to work in an SF way. So, from our perspective it’s not enough to learn SF in the classroom. The trainees need to be able to use and transfer SF in their natural context.

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