Advanced Training Skills for Experienced Trainers
Duration
4 x 1-day sessions or a 4 day course. IIncludes some preparation work between sessions.
Target Audience
Who should attend?
Experienced trainers of others in a group environment who wish to review their current practice and wish to explore the latest thinking in people development psychology and introduce new delivery techniques to their own repertoire.
Key Objectives
Often trainers in organisations work in isolation and rely on their own previous experience and original development when designing and delivering events. This series of sessions is designed to provide them with the opportunity to review their current effectiveness and motivate them into using highly participative methods with both individuals and groups, and ensuring they are making best use of their budgets.
Outline
A highly practical series of sessions which include a number of skills practices:
- Expectations, hopes and fears
- Trainer Qualities, competencies, tasks and functions
- Training Needs Assessment – key steps, collecting and analysing data
- How and Why People Learn
- Perceptual modalities and developing materials to appeal to all learners
- Learner centred vs. information centred development
- Self Awareness as a trainer
- Diversity and development - what do we need to consider?
- Objectives – types, characteristics, format, editing and writing
- The use of design matrix's in training
- Mind mapping in the design of your training
- Choosing Training Methods
- Creating an Instructional Plan
- Active training
- Adapting activities and materials to meet outcomes for your learners
- Dealing with differing viewpoints and conflict in groups during your training
- The use of case studies and exercises during training
- Seating arrangements for learners - what is best?
- The experiential learning cycle
- Introducing, conducting and processing activities during your training
- The art of questioning to encourage participation from learners
- Dealing with difficult people and resistance to learning
- The use of props and theatrical techniques to make your training more memorable
- Training evaluation techniques and levels
