By weaving popular motion pictures and their inherent themes and lessons into a well-grounded sales, leadership, or management development curriculum, you can create a richer and more memorable training experience for managers and employees alike.
Integrating “going to the movies” into employees’ learning experience may sound unusual, but it can be just what you need to make a turnaround in results or employee morale. Learning Theater is a powerful, unique training exercise that creates a whole new vision of business transformation, spurs creative thinking and renewed energy to tackle leadership challenges, and places the spotlight on (and establishes accountability for) superior leadership and team behaviors.
Learning Theater participants are engaged in the topic. They see challenges on the silver screen that are relevant to and run parallel to their own experience—managing team members’ performance, dealing with team dynamics and development, working for good and bad bosses, and facing issues that challenge their intellect and spirit, to name a few.
Typically, the Learning Theater exercise (full-length movie with multiple, strategically placed discussion breaks) runs four hours in length. Additional training materials or more team exercises can be incorporated. A key address from a senior leader brings even more credibility and importance to the overall experience.