Train-the-Trainer Training

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5.1 Facilitation Skills

It is impossible to be part of an organization today and not attend meetings. Staff meetings, project meetings, planning and coordinating meetings'they all take time.

There has been a growing realization that we have to pay attention to the process elements of meetings, if we want them to be effective. With its focus on asking rather than telling, and listening to build consensus, facilitation is the new leadership ideal, the core competency everybody needs. Managers and supervisors are often asked to facilitate rather than instruct or manage their meetings and training sessions.

This workshop has been created to make core facilitation skills better understood and readily available for your organization. It represents materials and ideas that have been tested and refined over twenty years of active facilitation in all types of settings. This workshop will help you learn how to:

Distinguish facilitation from instruction and training.
Identify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation.
Understand the different between content and process.
Identify the four stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage.
Use common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive

5.2 The Practical Trainer

Few children decide they want to grow up to be trainers. Even fewer know what a trainer is. And most people who call themselves trainers today probably didn't start out to be trainers. Trainers evolve. They are usually recruits from other professions or positions, like teaching, writing, researching, or managing. One thing is clear: more and more people are becoming trainers, either by choice or because their other job demands it. Often they are thrust into a difficult situation without much understanding of what training is or how to do it well.

This workshop will help you learn how to:

Recognize the importance of considering the participants and their training needs, including different learning styles and adult learning principles
Write objectives and evaluate whether these objectives have been met at the end of a training session
Develop an effective training style using appropriate training aids and techniques

5.3 Advanced Skills for the Practical Trainer

Behind every spectacular training session is a lot of preparation and meticulous attention to detail. The truly skilled trainer can make a program exciting. The learners will have fun while they are learning if the facilitator is able to involve their emotions as well as their minds. You will see the involvement, and you will feel the energy.

To reach this stage as an adult educator isn't always easy, but success isn't just for the naturally gifted. It is possible for all of us who put effort into our personal growth and development, because we want the enormous satisfaction that comes from working with others to help them reach their potential as human beings. This workshop is your start to that goal.

This workshop requires that participants have a good understanding of basic training principles, including adult learning concepts, Kolb's learning cycle, training methods, and designing a learning sequence.

Objectives for this workshop include:

Enhance your understanding of learning styles and how to accommodate all four learning styles in the classroom
Understand the key principles of effective communication in a workshop setting
Use a variety of training techniques to stimulate participation
Develop a plan and prepare for an effective training session
Understand the different levels of evaluation and when to use each
Understand how and when to add fun and humor to your training session
Identify advanced interventions for difficult situations
Practice the skills needed for a team presentation

5.4 Using Activities to Make Training Fun

Most people have been at a party or some other social occasion where someone has told an inappropriate joke and ruined the mood (at least temporarily). Likewise, we've all been somewhere where the class clown is able to lighten the mood and help people have fun.

The good news is that humor can help make training sessions just as engaging as those fun social occasions. Even better, trainers don't need to be the class clown or an award winning comedian to do it.

This workshop will help participants identify what kind of humor they can bring to the classroom, and how games can help them engage their participants.

This workshop will also help you learn how to:

Understand how training can include the use of humor and games
Use different types of games
Identify methods to elicit participant buy-in
Use humor principles in adult learning
Troubleshoot when games go badly
Develop their own games

5.5 Survival Skills for the New Trainer

Few people choose training and development while they are still in school, and yet there are talented and knowledgeable trainers working in every industry. Some individuals become trainers because they are passionate about sharing their knowledge and about helping people. Others become trainers because their employer asks them to get involved in mentoring, training, or coaching new or existing employees. Trainers also get started when they want to make some changes to their daily activities, but wish to continue contributing to a particular organization or industry.

This course is for participants who are thinking about becoming a trainer, or have started doing some training already and want to know more about what will help them become an excellent trainer. This workshop is designed as an exploration of the essential skills that trainers need to develop, and to get participants started on the learning process in an interactive and fun environment.

This workshop will help you learn:

The essential background for trainers to have
How being genuine enhances training
How to ask good questions
Key listening skills
How to develop rapport building strategies
The essentials of presentation skills

5.6 Developing Your Training Program

Training is an essential element of development in any organization. Being knowledgeable and continuing to learn throughout your career can make you a very valuable asset. We also know that training and orientation for newly hired employees is a key factor in retention.

This seminar is designed for a trainer who wants to develop training programs that are meaningful, practical, and will benefit both trainees and the organizations they work for.

This workshop will help you learn how to:

Describe the essential elements of a training program
Apply different methodologies to program design
Prepare, research, and deliver strong content
Use an instructional model
Create a training program proposal