Course Description
Professional trainers produce professional results. This 3-day instructor-led Train The Trainer course will provide you with a solid foundation of skills and knowledge of process of learning, the role of the individual trainer and issues of importance when working with groups. Our Train The Trainer 3-day Workshop provides instruction, coaching, and feedback to prepare those who deliver training, including full-time trainers, subject matter experts, supervisors, and managers, either in a classroom (physical or virtual) or on-the-job setting. Keys to our Train The Trainer Workshop include:
• Skilled modeling of adult learning principles and delivery techniques, including how to help adults learn and remember, processing and facilitation techniques, classroom set-up and management, and handling difficult participant situations.
• Researched, up-to-date and well-designed program and materials that are mapped to the professional competencies, performance, and Instruction.
• The application of a client’s own content throughout the program and for any final skill demonstration project.
• The opportunity to receive both facilitator and peer feedback and coaching.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of the Train the Trainer Workshop, you will be able to:
• Understand learning styles.
• Understand the learning cycle.
• Understand the learning curve.
• Define successful training.
• Use the skills of expert trainers.
• Use body language.
• Use visual aids.
• Plan a training event.
• Maintain professional behavior.
• Place questions and handle questions from the students.
• Understand the needs of adult learners.
• Use control techniques.
• Handle students.
• Fix problems.
• Identify stages in the group life cycle.
Agenda
Learning Styles: General Descriptions
• Activists
• Reflectors
• Theorists
• Pragmatists
The Learning Cycle
• Aims
• Objectives
• Purpose
• SMART Objectives
How Master Trainers Get That Way
• Accepting Difference
• Using Silence
• Knowing When You Do not Know
• Cultivating Variety
• Endurance and Openness
Communications
• Body Language
• Reference Systems Indicators
Visual Aids
• Designing Visual Aids
• Making Technical Courses Relevant
• Clarity of Explanations
• Use Your Imagination!
• Making Courses Interesting
How to Plan a Training Event
• Setting the Stage
• Preparing the Delegates in Advance
• Rehearsal
Trainer Conduct and Control
• Prepare
• Keep to Time
• Look and Act Professionally
• Use Eye Contact
• Speak Clearly
• Stand Well
Questioning Technique
• Placing Questions
• Handling Answers
• Dealing with Questions
• Questions to Avoid
Ways of Working With Adult Learners
• Control Techniques
• The Four Most Common Problems
People Handling
• Good Delegates
• Poor Delegates
What to Do When Things go Wrong
• Fixing Problems
• Groups
• Stages
• Issues in Group Life Cycle