Train the Trainer

Course overview

Duration: 2 days (13 hours)

This Train the Trainer workshop will enable you to gain valuable insights and practice helping you to feel more comfortable and confident delivering training sessions. We will look at some training best practice tools and techniques to ensure you can deliver the learning outcomes required.

The workshop covers the training cycle but focuses heavily on interactive and practical training techniques to bring learning to life for participants. There will be opportunities to practice delivery of real work-based training and receive feedback on delivery style.

Objectives 

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Explain Kolb’s model of how adults learn
• Describe the 4 key learning styles and how to engage people with different learning styles
• Apply the training cycle to plan, design, deliver and evaluate your training
• Write SMART training objectives
• Use and select a variety of methods to make your training interactive, engaging and effective
• Describe ways to deal with difficult participants or situations that may arise
• Apply your training skills to deliver structured training sessions with more competence and confidence

Content

The Training Cycle 

• Assessing needs
• Planning and preparing
• Implementing training
• Reviewing
• Assessing

Assessing Needs

• Understanding the task
• Assessing the learner’s current ability
• Identifying the gap

Planning and Preparing  

• Having clear outcomes in mind
• What people learn:
  o Knowledge
  o Skill
  o Understanding
•  How people learn: preferences and learning styles and methods suitable for each
• Planning a programme
• Planning a session – a systematic approach
• Assessing risk
• Writing and using SOPs in training

Key Skills for Effective Training

• Explanation and Demonstration
• Questioning and Listening
• Observation and Feedback
• Facilitation and Debriefing skills

Coaching

• Using questioning, listening and feedback to help learners solve problems and develop confidence

Evaluation and Assessment

• How to measure reactions and participant satisfaction
• Use of tests and assessments to measure learning
• Organisational measures of learning transfer

Leverage  

• You will have the opportunity to deliver two training sessions on this programme and gain valuable feedback to support you in your ongoing training delivery.
• Participants are required to prepare a 15 minute training session. This can be something you have delivered before or something you’ve created for the course. Please prepare and include any visual aids you would usually use when speaking and bring them with you, if possible, please also bring your smart phone (with camera, and memory capacity for a short video clip to be added), and headphones.

Underscore Group delivers practical, instructor-led leadership and personal development training that helps people communicate clearly, build confidence, and work more effectively with others. Based in Sussex and supporting organisations across the UK, we specialise in relatable, real-world learning that strengthens capability at every level — from early-career professionals to experienced managers.

Every session is tailored to your organisation’s culture, values and ways of working, ensuring the skills taught transfer directly into day-to-day behaviour. Our leadership and people-skills programmes are trusted by organisations across finance, aviation, healthcare, construction and professional services.

• Trusted by leading UK organisations
• Expert trainers with real business experience
• Small-group sessions (6–8 people)
• Practical, hands-on learning approach
• Virtual & onsite delivery across the UK
• Six months of post-course support

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