Train The Trainer

Course Description:

This is a lively, one-day hands-on workshop designed to cover basic adult education principles and techniques. Design and delivery fundamentals (including presentation tips, climate setting and classroom management) are explored to give participants more confidence in front of groups. You will examine adult learning styles, earning objectives, training design and evaluation.

What’s in it for you? You Will

• Assess your own learning strengths and weaknesses, with the opportunity to reflect on how they may impact your teaching style
• Learn how to write simple learning objectives that will apply to the material that you teach
• Identify the 5 characteristics of the adult learner and learn how these influence current instructional design and delivery techniques
• Examine the training cycle and how their role fits into the cycle
• Practice writing clear learning objectives
• Demonstrate setting priorities and sequence course content
• Match instructional objectives to delivery techniques
• Demonstrate basic presentation skills and facilitation techniques
• Work with trainees with different learning styles
• Practice Managing problem classroom behaviour
• Examine the value of learner-centred as well as teacher-centred education

The Essential Learning Experience:

Small class size – approachable and engaging trainer – post-workshop follow-up. When it comes to delivering training, at Essential Communications we:

• Create opportunities for large and small group learning, and time for individual writing/reflection
• Use experiential learning, case studies and role playing to create multiple opportunities to practice
• Focus on practical, relevant examples
• Develop skills and strategies that can easily be applied to your real world work situation
• Have energized, engaging, focused trainers. Our trainers all have front of the room experience and thousands of hours of experience
• Always engage our audience in an interactive discussion; we never lecture

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What’s in it for your organization?

In order to train people effectively you need to have more than just good presentation skills. You need to understand how the course material will be received and "taken up" by the trainees and whether or not they will be able to apply the concepts and skills they gain in real world/real work situations. This course is designed to benefit anyone who is required to provide training as part of their job description.

Having taken this course:

Participants learn the importance of assessing needs, determining learning objectives, organizing course content, selecting appropriate methodologies and evaluating the effectiveness of training. Basic presentation, facilitation and classroom management tips are covered as well so that learners come away with a more well-rounded skill set.