Train the Trainer
Elevate your skills in designing, delivering and evaluating engaging and interactive training that will leave a lasting impact on your team or organisation
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, f possible, please also bring your smart phone (with camera, and memory capacity for a short video clip to be added), and headphones.
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