Here are two of the many "accelerated learning" ways to end a seminar or learning session on a high note, with plenty of fun while encouraging participants to crystallize the main points they have learned:

a. Ask each participant to write, on one sheet of paper, a sentence summing up the main message learned.

b. Participants then pair-off, and each has 45 seconds to convince the other that his or her main point is the key one.

c. Those two then pair off with another two, with the same conditions.

d. Those four participants then line up with another four, and so on until finally half the gathering appoint a spokesperson to argue their agreed main point with the other half. Allowing about two minutes for each segment, and a little longer for the all-in debate at the end, a conference of 300 people can complete the process in under 20 minutes.

a. Give all participants five minutes to write single-sentence summaries of all the main points they have learned-each on a separate sheet of paper.

b. Each one then attaches his or her sheets to a giant noticeboard.

c. They each then start moving the sheets about, matching like with like, discussing the reasons. The size of each selection of main points will then help crystallize the group's conclusions-and enable the facilitator to sum up.