Describe the role of the trainer.
- The trainer’s roles and responsibilities
- Demonstrate current training skills
Explore the 5-step training cycle
1. Identify / Analyse the Training Need
- What is a Training Needs Analysis (TNA)?
- What skills are required to conduct a TNA?
- Tools to conduct a TNA
- Analysing TNA findings
- Deciding the most appropriate training methodology
- Consideration of different learning styles
2. Design / Write your Training Solution- Important preparation considerations
- Designing learning aim and objectives based on the learning outcomes that need to be achieved.
- Training Introductions
- Housekeeping
- Getting everybody's attention
- Icebreakers
- Training Methodologies and how to choose the right ones to use
- How to design / find appealing visual aids
- PowerPoint dos and don'ts
- Handouts
- Workbooks
- Trainer guides
- Using videos / audio clips
- Utilising Flipcharts and Whiteboards
- Formal and informal assessment methods
3. Develop the Training Delivery Schedule
- Environment considerations
- Seating
- Tables
- Available equipment
- Temperature and noise
- Wi-Fi
- Scheduling training
4. Delivering the Training- The skills involved in presenting
- Facilitation v Presentation
- Communication Skills
- Busting the Mehrabian Myth
- NLP Communications Model
- Words that appeal to different learning styles
- Vocal Style
- Intonation Patterns
- Using body language and gestures effectively
- Facilitation Skills
- Questioning
- Listening
- Giving Feedback
- Managing challenging situations and people
- Monitoring Time
- Action Plans and reflective practice
- Closing the course
5. Evaluation methodology
- Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model
- Level 1 - How participants react to the training (e.g. satisfaction)
- Level 2 - Analyses if the delegates truly understood the training (e.g. increase in knowledge, skills or experience?
- Level 3 - Measuring if they are using what they have learned at work (e.g. behaviour change)
- Level 4 - Has the training had a positive impact on the organisation.
Delegates who attend this course will:
- Understand the importance of the training cycle
- Appreciate how and why people learn
- Learn to select the most appropriate training method
- Develop a professional approach and a style that is their own
- Practice delivery and receive feedback assisted by video
- Learn how to cope with challenging situations and people
This course is suitable for anyone at managerial level or in a Human Resources function who wishes to learn the specific skills required to effectively design and deliver training sessions.
Training skills are an essential skill desired in pretty much every industry and to some degree in most management roles. This course is designed to equip those involved in the design and delivery of training, or people aspiring to deliver training with the skills required to conduct a range of training interventions.
This course is designed to develop the confidence of delegates by enhancing their knowledge of training and development and providing them with techniques to enhance their skills. It will equip delegates with the skills to become effective trainers and to get the best out of the people they train. Our Train the Trainer programme is an ILM Development Programme giving delegates ILM membership for 12 months on completion.
Prepare a 5-minute introduction to a training session about yourself and what you want to achieve from attending this training course.
Advanced Presentation Skills
Advanced Coaching Skills
Advanced Facilitation Skills
Facilitating in a Virtual World
All delegates who successfully complete this course will receive a certificate from the Institute of Leadership & Management.
We deliver our Train the Trainer course throughout the UK and beyond. We can facilitate this ILM development programme onsite at your premises, as a virtual training option for those who are working from home or at any number of venues in Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Cardiff or London. Contact Us for more information or click the green button below to see when we are next running this as an open course anyone can attend.
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