If you have a coaching / mentoring program running throughout the course, which I definitely recommend, you may close the day with optional coaching or mentoring sessions to provide individual or peer group support. Managing the Group and the Space (Day 4)

Visual content is ideal to catch your audience’s attention in a matter of seconds. Plus, studies confirm that visuals help process information faster and facilitate learning. However, this doesn’t mean we should plaster graphics and illustrations all over our slides. Instead, use your visuals strategically only for what’s relevant. The best train the trainer courses and programs may contain bespoke materials tailored to the industry, organization, and group the trainer is working with, though there are some key elements that should be present in every train the trainer course and which you should consider when designing or building your course. 1. Identify the purpose of the training Adults are most interested in learning subjects that have immediate relevance and impact on their job or personal life. Importantly, each trainee should have an opportunity to facilitate a group conversation during the session. While they facilitate, they should apply the various facilitation techniques they have learned. These are key principles that should always be kept in mind when designing training sessions, so getting these clarified early in the training program gives a useful reference point.For instance, employees with hearing difficulties might have a hard time watching an instructional video with no captions. Likewise, participants with visibility issues might need an easy-to-read font size in the slides or color contrast in your presentation visuals. Rudyard Kipling was right that words are a very powerful tool, however, if used and deliveredeffectively. Let’sbreak down some theory intoshort sections. #1: Illustrating Presentation Structure by Drawing Give opportunities for participants to practice how to apply the knowledge they have learnt. This practice may take place with close mentoring, as the focus here is on learning a particular skill. This session will be a starting point for your trainees in understanding the types of exercises they might use and how to design them. You should provide an overview of the types of exercises in a training session and give guidance on how to choose the right type of exercise. A lot of training sessions call for a lot of trainers. Thus, unless you have an endless budget to hire external trainers, you might be better off training your own internal experts who can transfer skills and knowledge to other employees. A competent and skilled group of internal trainers will also help a lot in supporting any future change and transformation initiatives that your organisation might undertake. Additionally, having internal trainers allows an organisation to pass on domain or organisation-specific knowledge from experienced employees to newer ones.

There’s often an expectation that a trainer delivering a training presentation will also provide a handout. The idea is that a handout serves as a real reminder of what happened, so that participants can benefit ‘long term’ from training. The problem? If slides work as handouts they must be pretty much self-explanatory. If slides are self-explanatory, the trainer will just be ignored while trying to present them – the audience will read instead. Your trainees should have practical working time to design the main exercise in their Practice Delivery, and your team of trainers must mentor them and give useful tips on designing exercises that achieve Learning Objectives. Practice Makes Perfect (Day 3) Begin by selecting the object that you want to get rid of. Once the object is selected, just tap Delete on your keyboard. 9. Change an Object's Color Change an object's color.

While there is no single best way to design a train the trainer event for each of the categories above, we have created a high-level template agenda to show the essential topics we would include in a train the trainer program over the course of a week. As a trainer, you will frequently have the responsibility of standing in front of the room and presenting material. The amount of time you spend presenting theory as a trainer may vary largely on the types of training sessions you will run. But in any case, it is important to have solid presentation skills to be able to introduce concepts and theories in an understandable, structured way. Out of various speech structures, I like the most the 4MAT concept. It is pretty simple and works for me. Plus, many training slides are stand-alone materials with the task of conveying information without a live instructor. That’s when you can rely on a good design to deliver a coherent interpretation of your lessons. Upgrade your training presentations today! So, this day is dedicated for all the soft trainer’s skills that make a well-designed session run smoothly in the classroom where flesh-and-blood participants interact with each other and the trainer.

Plus, keeping visual consistency across all materials helps your team become familiar with the brand and reinforce that they’re part of the company's activities. Discuss how they can keep supporting each other in their development path after this course is over. The right stories – told with enough detail, and where there’s genuine uncertainty and interest about what will happen – can make your training come to life. Change pace Long intense: (1-2 week event ~ 40-80 learning hours): Beyond the basic skills, it allows for some of the more complex interpersonal topics that a trainer needs to master, such as group dynamics, group facilitation and interaction. Trainees are usually expected to design and deliver sessions on a wide range of non-technical topics (e.g. “soft skills” training sessions). This format is particularly useful if your group of trainees will work together in the future, as the length and intensity of the event will accelerate their team development. To change font size, highlight the text that you want to change the size of the font of. The menu to change the font is in the toolbar. Choose what size font you want from the drop-down.

If you changed the color scheme of your presentation, you may want to change the color of the objects on the slide to match the new color scheme. Often times, an organisation may already have a preference for a model they already use for planning training programs. If not, then you have an opportunity to choose which model you prefer! Exercises are an integral part of any experiential learning activity. While designing effective experiential learning exercises requires a lot of practice and experience, you need to start somewhere.