Train-the-Trainer is an intensive skill building experience that teaches participants how to become better instructors, presenters, meeting leaders, mentors and coaches. A distinguishing aspect of this course is its dedication to developing and practicing your own voice, or delivery style. Participants practice delivery and apply the knowledge and techniques learned. By observing each other, the group will assess delivery style and offer feedback to refine your abilities. Delivered in a safe, fun and supportive environment, this course emphasizes practice, application and demonstrated competency.!
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the adult learning cycle.
- Identify and teach to the four learning styles and seven types of “smarts.”
- Apply experiential learning principles to make facilitating/training more engaging and effective.
- Compare hierarchical (lecture), co-operative (activities) and autonomous (reflection) training modes.
- Identify behaviors that contribute to confident presentations/facilitations.
- Set the scene for learning using powerful openers and closers.
- Apply curriculum “shaping” methods to improve participation and comprehension.
- Effectively deal with difficult audience/team members.
- Develop effective visual aids.
- Plan and organize training materials so sessions flow seamlessly from start to finish and knowledge retention is maximized.
Pre-requisites
- Pre-course reading and pre-course questionnaire
Who Should Attend?
- Individuals who train, give group presentations, or lead change in an organization.
- Performance excellence leaders, Lean Master candidates, Master Black Belts candidates.
Detailed Course Information
There’s more to teaching than knowing your topic. You have to know your students and how they learn. You have to understand group dynamics and manage interactions. You have to prepare your material and visual aids, and you have to deliver your sessions in a way that creates profound experiences.
Train-the-Trainer is an intensive skill-building experience that teaches participants how to become better instructors, presenters, meeting leaders, mentors and coaches. You learn the practices, behaviors and tools you need to improve audience participation, buy-in, comprehension, retention and application.
Specifically, this course teaches you how to plan and organize materials, including openers and closers, curriculum “shaping” methods and visual aids. You’ll be exposed to a variety of experiential learning principles that you can use to increase your teaching effectiveness. And you’ll delve into the specifics of the adult learning cycle and different learning styles.
8 PDUs are available for this course.
Agenda
- Via a Mix of Instruction and Application:
- Adult Learning Principles
- Adult Learning Styles
- The Adult Learning Cycle
- Including:
- Identifying Adult Learning Behaviors
- Dealing With Difficult Behaviors
- Facilitation Interventions
- Developing a Training Roadmap
- Setting the Scene for Learning
- Developing High Impact Training
- Developing Visual Aids
- Assessment and Feedback
- Planning and Preparing Training
- Encouraging the Transfer of Learning
System Requirements
- System Requirements: Internet connection with modern browser
- Setting an Action Plan
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows (7 and higher) or Apple Mac OS X
- Recommended Browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge
- For the best experience and optimum security, we recommend that you keep your browser up to date.Legacy browsers with known issues:
- Internet Explorer 10 and below
- Safari 7 and below
- Note: the course content requires that any pop-up blocker be disabled
