Train The Trainer

Train The Trainer Training 

Design & Deliver Engaging Training

You can mix and match the content on this page to make up a trainer the trainer course that lasts from a 1-day overview through to a 5-day intensive.

Why should you attend?

The days of “chalk and talk” are long gone, and trainers must now adapt their style of delivery to programmes that reflect the way adults learn best. It is now clearly understood that:

• Adults need to know why they need to learn something.

• Adults need to learn experientially.

• Adults approach learning as problem solving.

• Adults learn best when the topic is of immediate value.

This programme provides the tools to plan, develop and deliver training programmes that create a positive learning environment and ensure embedded learning is the key outcome.

This programme has been designed to appeal to all trainers – those that do training as part of a wider role and those that train on a full time basis. The content will help you to develop a wider range of skills, thereby making you a more effective facilitator, so that you can fully meet the needs of the modern adult trainee.

Planning Your Course

• Turning training needs analysis into tangible outcomes

• Energising the brain before a course commences

• The Townsend Matrix – Competence/Knowledge, Teaching Skills and Concern

• Looking through your own ‘Johari Window’

• Assessing trainer competencies

• Training aids

• The trainer as a visual aid!

• “Double SMART” objectives

• Knowing your audience in advance

• Stages of Competence

• What adults want

• How to plan a training session

• Knowing what resources will be required

• Pre-Course work

Preparing Your Course

• The centre of learning

• Brain friendly learning

• How different parts of the brain are used

• Left and Right brain thinking

• The 30/70 rule and its importance in delivering a successful training session

• Barriers to Learning

• Sensory Learning Styles (Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, Kinaesthetic)

• Psychological Learning Styles – Activist, Reflector, Theorist, Pragmatist

• Using Transactional Analysis and Gestalt Theory in a training environment

Preparing Your Course (Continued)

• Providing a variety

• Recognising Multiple Intelligences

• Use of visual aids

• Using music as a brain stimulus

• Producing creative and challenging exercises/activities

• Tips for effective presentations

• The five key principles of course design

• Communication skills

• Active listening

• Overcoming barriers to communication

• Activities that can be used for assessing multiple skills

Managing Interaction/Selection Criteria

• Creating an effective learning environment

• Developing energisers

• The effective use of mnemonics, acronyms, analogies and quotations

• The different motives of trainees

• Body language – you and them

• Reading the signs

• Managing aggressive trainees

• Developing a Training Needs Analysis

• Measuring the return on investment of training via skills, knowledge and competencies

• The benefits of blended learning

Pulling It All Together

• On this final day, the participants will work in groups to plan design and deliver an energetic and effective training session

• Developing action plans

• Q & A session