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title: Agility Recovery Training Guides — Participant & Facilitator
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created: '2026-04-05'
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- instructional-design
- new-hire-onboarding
- agility-recovery
- e-learning
- rise-360
- facilitator-guide
- participant-guide
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# Agility Recovery Training Guides — Participant & Facilitator

## Overview

Agility Recovery's new-hire sales training uses a **hybrid model**: learners complete self-paced e-learnings in RISE 360, then attend facilitated debrief sessions with Gus Donelson. Two companion documents support this model — a Facilitator Guide and a Participant Guide. Both were drafted by Isalia Ramirez (Asymmetric) and are pending Gus's review and feedback.

The guides are structured around the training agenda's three-phase arc:
- **Week 1:** Foundation
- **Week 2:** Application
- **Week 3:** Mastery

Course numbers exist but are treated as flexible — a module numbered for Week 1 can be assigned during Week 2 if needed.

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## Facilitator Guide

### Purpose

Enable any trainer — not just Gus — to run debrief sessions effectively. If Gus is unavailable, a substitute should be able to pick up the guide and run the day's sessions with enough context to facilitate meaningful discussion.

> "If I hit the lottery… could someone come in and just grab that and be able to kind of stumble through the day?" — Gus Donelson

### Contents

- Session flow broken out by week
- Discussion points and debrief questions keyed to each RISE module
- Facilitator notes and tips (e.g., prompts to check whether learners completed e-learnings)
- Corresponding activities to reinforce learning objectives

### Design Principle

Debriefs should be **specific and applied**, not generic. Gus explicitly wants to avoid open-ended prompts like "what stuck out to you?" in favor of questions like:
- *"What does the Agility Way mean to you in your own words?"*
- *"How would you explain our membership model on a call?"*
- *"How are you going to use this?"*

The Facilitator Guide should equip any trainer to run that level of conversation.

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## Participant Guide

### Purpose

Ensure new hires complete their assigned e-learnings before debrief sessions and arrive prepared to engage in specific, substantive discussion — not just passive recall.

### Key Design Decision: Digital-First, Streamlined

The initial draft ran **37 pages**. The team agreed this is too long for the format. The final version will be:

- **Digital-first** — likely an interactive PDF, not a printed workbook
- **Streamlined** — guides learners *to* information rather than providing all of it inline
- **Focused on critical interaction points** — some fill-in prompts are desirable (e.g., "In your own words, what does business continuity mean?") but should be selective

> "How do we guide them to find the resource as opposed to provide?" — Gus Donelson

The Co-pilot module is directly relevant here: if new hires learn to use Co-pilot effectively, they can self-serve answers to many reference questions, reducing the need for the guide to be exhaustive.

### Relationship to Facilitator Guide

Some questions will appear in **both** guides — the Facilitator Guide as discussion prompts, the Participant Guide as pre-work reflection questions. This creates alignment between what learners prepare and what the debrief covers.

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## Design Considerations

| Dimension | Decision |
|---|---|
| Format | Interactive PDF (not Word doc, not printed) |
| Length | Streamlined; less is more |
| Fill-in prompts | Yes, selectively — for key concepts only |
| Printing | Not expected or desired |
| Facilitator dependency | Guide must work without Gus present |
| Debrief style | Specific and applied, not open-ended |

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## Status & Next Steps

- [x] First drafts of both guides shared by Isalia
- [ ] **Gus** to review both guides and provide specific feedback (planned for flight to Tucson)
- [ ] Isalia to revise Participant Guide toward digital-first, streamlined format based on feedback
- [ ] Determine final delivery format (interactive PDF confirmed as likely direction)

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## Related

- [[clients/agility-recovery/_index]]
- [[knowledge/elearning/agility-recovery-module-status]]
- [[knowledge/elearning/agility-recovery-tech-stack-training]]
- [[knowledge/elearning/hybrid-training-model]]