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Popular Training & Workshop Providers
Depending on your field of interest, several established organizations host regular skill-building sessions:
Student & Career Development: Platforms like Unstop frequently host short-term certification bootcamps, AI testing workshops, and employability webinars designed to help young professionals in India advance their skill sets.
Education & Technology: For educators and students, the Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET - NCERT) provides online training on digital wellness, AI in education, and open educational resources.
Environment & Capacity Building: The Centre for Environment Education (CEE) offers specialized capacity-building workshops on waste management, water conservation, and sustainable development.
Corporate & Innovation: If your goal is leadership and design thinking, Innovation Training facilitates strategic planning, brainstorming, and growth mindset courses.
Planning & Sourcing
If your goal is to organize your own workshop for a team, you should start by onboarding participants with a needs-assessment questionnaire, using icebreakers to create an engaging environment, and ensuring that there is adequate time for hands-on practice.
To help me narrow down the best training or workshop opportunities for you, could you please tell me:What is your industry or field of study?Are you looking for online courses or in-person events?Do you need this for individual learning or for a group of employees/students?
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When discussing an assignment with a client I sometimes get the impression that an event is supposed to be a TRAINING, but later I learnt that the client actually wants to reflect on their own strategy. Then I would call it a WORKSHOP…. In some cases an assignment is diplomatically even referred to as a Training Workshop, which in my perception is not an existing concept. And indeed when I asked about what they actually want, they tell me that they want both … a Training and a Workshop …
This will not be an easy mix. Maybe it helps if I explain my own perception of the differences between a WORKSHOP and a TRAINING.
A TRAINING explains participants concepts, procedures and techniques on, for example, the Logical Framework Analysis (LFA) Quality instrument for Strategy development, Identification, Formulation, Implementation / Monitoring and Evaluation all along the Project Cycle. To learn some skills participants may also practice on a case that is familiar to them. Each sub-group can even work on their own case. As such, they gain (RESULTS) knowledge, skills and attitude and get confident in applying those aspects in their work (Overall Objectives). The PURPOSE of training is that participants, preferably heterogeneously mixed, get sufficient practical exposure that makes them feel competent (PURPOSE) on understanding and applying the topic. In a TRAINING it would be nice if participants have some interaction with the trainer and feel free to ask (“stupid”) questions. Only then LEARNING takes place as the questions boil up after THINKING. A training can be 2, 3 or even 5 days depending on the scope of the training and the desire to have practical exercises during the training.
On the other hand, in a WORKSHOP a facilitator guides a group of 12-20 (max!) representatives from involved stakeholders through the Analysis and Planning procedure, called the Logical Framework Analysis Quality instrument (LFA). The procedure starts with the analysis of a specific situation (Stakeholder Analysis and Problem Analysis) and helps participants to DESIGN an intervention (WHAT matrix) and helps them to Prepare a Capacity Building Plan to strengthen the implementing agency (HOW).
A workshop deals with a REAL and PAINFUL situation around which several Stakeholders play a role, either as “End-user” getting affected by the situation or as a “Supplier” in one way or another involved in contributing to solving or causing the situation. Mostly the participants know each other and work in the same field. In a workshop the facilitator does not (or very briefly) explain the LFA methodology, but applies the procedure of the LFA methodology. A workshop is dealing with a real issue that in real life is important to all the participants, some even more (like the End-Users!) than others.
The procedure of a Participatory LFA workshop for Project Design is:
1. Determination of the entity,
2. Determination of the Stakeholders (WHO),
3. Identification of problems as perceived from the points of view of the different stakeholders (WHY),
4. Discussing the problems identified until these are clear to all,
5. Building a cause-effect logic of the problems identified,
6. Formulating the problems into objectives,
7. Preparing the Logical Framework Matrix: Project Purpose, Overall Objectives, (Assumptions to Overall Objectives), Results / Outcomes, Assumptions to Purpose, Activities to reach Results and Assumptions to reach the Results, Preconditions.
8. Identify the Implementing Agencies and define the need to strengthen that organisation.
9. If needed prepare a Capacity Building Matrix for each organisation in need of support.