Train the Trainer Skills (3 days)

Train the Trainer Skills
3 days

Course Aims
Professional trainers produce professional results. This course will provide participants with a solid foundation of skills and knowledge of process of learning, the role of the individual trainer and issues of importance when

working with groups.

Assumed Knowledge
Knowledge of the subject(s) they will be training and understanding of the training role in their organisation

Course Audience
New and intending trainers

Course Summary
• Learning Styles: General Descriptions – Activists – Reflectors – Theorists – Pragmatists
• The Learning Cycle
• The Learning Curve
• Successful Training Aims and Objectives – Aims – Objectives – Purpose – SMART Objectives
• How Master Trainers Get That Way – Accepting Difference – Using Silence – Knowing When You Do not Know – Cultivating Variety – Endurance and Openness
• Communications – Body Language – Reference Systems Indicators
• Visual Aids – Designing Visual Aids – Making Technical Courses Relevant – Clarity of Explanations – Use Your Imagination! – Making Courses Interesting
• How to Plan a Training Event – Setting the Stage – Preparing the Delegates in Advance – Rehearsal
• Trainer Conduct and Control – Prepare – Keep to Time – Look and Act Professionally – Use Eye Contact – Speak Clearly – Stand Well
• Questioning Technique – Placing Questions – Handling Answers – Dealing with Questions – Questions to Avoid
• Ways of Working With Adult Learners
• Control Techniques
• People Handling – Good Delegates – Poor Delegates
• What to Do When Things go Wrong
• Fixing Problems
• Groups – Stages – Issues in Group Life Cycle