Train The Trainer: From Design To Delivery

Train the Trainer: From Design to Delivery

Course Outline

• Adult learning and learning styles
  • Assumptions and principles of adult learning
    • Adult learning assumptions
    • Characteristics of the adult learner
    • What we know about adult learning
    • Adults’ motivation to learn
  • Learning styles and their importance
  • Audience analysis
  • Research findings about learning
  • Implications for the trainer and the learner
• Characteristics of successful trainers
  • Roles of a trainer
  • Characteristics of a good trainer
    • Your image
    • Asking the right questions
    • Building rapport with participants
    • Your listening skills
  • Facilitation skills
    • Dos and don’ts of successful trainers
    • Common facilitation techniques
    • Your role as a facilitator
  • The assertive or the aggressive trainer
  • Types of trainers
• Training methods, activities and exercises
  • From brainstorming to case studies
  • Advantages and disadvantages of different methods
  • Guidelines for choosing a training method
  • Types of interactive activities
  • General guidelines on developing activities
  • The element of creativity
  • Examples of icebreakers, energizers and review activities
• Designing training programs
  • Characteristics of an effective training program
  • Importance of ILOs
  • Main elements of program design
    • The ROPES model
    • A 5 step model for creating terrific training sessions
  • Preparing an outline for a training session
  • Skeleton of a key point
  • Developing your opening
  • Tips for a memorable ending
  • Blueprint for a training session
• Presenting and delivering effective training
  • Tools available to trainers
  • Training facility set-up
  • Control of body language
  • Ways to get attention and maintain interest: the main Tabascos
  • Coping with problem participants
  • Delivery and critique of training sessions