VERY IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE DAY (VIN)
Czech Republic
This technique was developed to follow up a flow of information in the psychotherapy field and subsequently it has been used during longer-term adult education residential courses, mainly in managerial training focused on personality development and negotiation skills. It is fast, easy and flexible.
The technique is based on a simple principle: at the beginning of the morning programme, every participant hands over a piece of paper with just one Very Important item of News from the previous day, together with source of information and where it was obtained. For example:
• If roles do not change in a group, stagnation sets in.
Charles - Lecturer. Discussion on dynamics in a group.
• When embarrassed, I close my eyes. A participant. Assertivity training.
VIN content analysis during and at the end of the course give us important data. It reveals the flow of information between the group and the programme and between the group and the individual lecturers/organisers. The items can be classified in three categories: knowledge and skills, personality development,
others. In re-training courses, the focus should be on new knowledge and skills, in training of managers on personality development.
Experience shows that lecturers can be categorised as strong (in both positive and negative meaning), those who only rarely appear as source of information in VIN, and the weak ones, who never appear in VIN. Also, there are strong courses, full of most important news, and courses where most of the entries
are from leisure time and concern the weather, TV news, gossips from other participants etc.
Pavel Hartl
References
Hartl, P. (1988) Education in Psychotherapy and its Effect on Adult Personality. In: Studies in the Education of Adults, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 3-15.
Skoleni vs. training (Schooling versus Training) (1997) In: Andragogika, Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 12.
Czech Republic
This technique was developed to follow up a flow of information in the psychotherapy field and subsequently it has been used during longer-term adult education residential courses, mainly in managerial training focused on personality development and negotiation skills. It is fast, easy and flexible.
The technique is based on a simple principle: at the beginning of the morning programme, every participant hands over a piece of paper with just one Very Important item of News from the previous day, together with source of information and where it was obtained. For example:
• If roles do not change in a group, stagnation sets in.
Charles - Lecturer. Discussion on dynamics in a group.
• When embarrassed, I close my eyes. A participant. Assertivity training.
VIN content analysis during and at the end of the course give us important data. It reveals the flow of information between the group and the programme and between the group and the individual lecturers/organisers. The items can be classified in three categories: knowledge and skills, personality development,
others. In re-training courses, the focus should be on new knowledge and skills, in training of managers on personality development.
Experience shows that lecturers can be categorised as strong (in both positive and negative meaning), those who only rarely appear as source of information in VIN, and the weak ones, who never appear in VIN. Also, there are strong courses, full of most important news, and courses where most of the entries
are from leisure time and concern the weather, TV news, gossips from other participants etc.
Pavel Hartl
References
Hartl, P. (1988) Education in Psychotherapy and its Effect on Adult Personality. In: Studies in the Education of Adults, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 3-15.
Skoleni vs. training (Schooling versus Training) (1997) In: Andragogika, Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 12.
