Train the Trainer

Introduction:

This highly engaging 4-day Train the Trainer program focuses on developing all the essential skills required to enable those involved in the training of employees to do so in a professional and effective way. This is a fast paced, challenging and highly rewarding program.

In order to deliver high performance training, delegates will learn about adult learning and training design and delivery techniques that will ensure maximum recall and safe working. They will also have the opportunity to participate in a highly interactive and engaging practical sessions.

The highly skilled course leader will lead from the front, demonstrating the techniques and allowing delegates to experience them first-hand. Coaching will be provided to all delegates as an aid to self-development and also as a tool they can transfer to their own training sessions. Designed for maximum transfer of learning in the given time, this program truly examples high performance training techniques.

Program Objectives

Participants attending this program will:

• Discover how adults best learn at work
• Learn how to deliver highly effective skills training sessions
• Gain awareness of their own and others’ personalities and learning styles
• Learn how to implement successful training administration and evaluation methods
• Study the design of training for maximum knowledge transfer
• Practice how to successfully deliver a highly rewarding training session and receive valuable developmental coaching and feedback

Course Content:

Day One:

Facilitation Skills

• Train me (video recording)

Training and Facilitation Introduction

• Training – Facilitating – Presenting
• Characteristics of an effective trainer/facilitator
• Elements of a successful training program
• Common errors in training
• Accelerated learning process
• Icebreakers and energizers
• Understanding personality types and thinking styles

Training needs assessment

• TNA definition
• Levels of TNA
• Audience analysis

Day Two

Training and Instructional System Design for Maximum Knowledge Transfer

How do adults learn?

• Pedagogy vs Andragogy (adult learner motivation)
• Principles of adult learning
• Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle
• Learning cycle vs. learning styles
• The steps of learning
• Learning styles: Pragmatist/Activist/Analytical/Reflector
• Behavioral styles

Facilitation Design

• Designing for delivery: Learner centric and trainer centric

Training Delivery:  What comes from within?

• Stage fright: Thoughts – Emotions – Physiology
• My Big Why (WIIFM)
• W.O.T Me

Training Delivery: On the Stage

• How to start your session
• Asking engaging questions (hooking your audience)
• Posture and movement
• Using non-verbal communication and effective body language
• Questioning techniques – handling questions from trainees

Course Content:

Day Three

Training Design: Design and Planning

• The 4-Mat design
• Making things memorable
• Trainees’ learning styles: Perceptual Styles (VAK Model)
• Bloom’s Taxonomy (cognitive, affective and sensory)
• Developing your learning objectives
• Researching skills
  • Brain storming
  • Mind mapping
  • Over prepare, under deliver
• Transitioning – learning by connections
• Planning the whole training program/workshop
• Preparing training logistics (lesson plans and handouts)
• Designing and conducting on-the-job-training
  • Train me (video recording)

Day Four

Training Delivery:  Diversify your techniques

• Group Training Techniques
  • Brain storming
  • Interactive talk
  • Group discussion
  • Role play
  • Activity-Based Learning
  • The value of experiential learning in achieving learning outcomes

Assessing the Training

Training Evaluation

• How effective is your training?
• Four levels of evaluation
• Assessing your learning objectives
• Kirkpatrick evaluation model
• Transfer of training to the workplace
  • Train me (video recording)