Training Certificate Program

Our training for trainers program: how to build confidence and engage your audience

The training field can change fast, which makes training for trainers crucial. New methodologies. New discoveries about the way adults learn. Changing expectations from trainees—and from your company. Our training the trainer courses give you the practical platform skills and confidence you need to succeed. This powerful seminar puts the latest trends and techniques at your fingertips. Whether you’ve been training for a while or never stepped onto a platform before, this training for trainers workshop will show you how to become a facilitator of learning, not just a presenter. You’ll build confidence, engage your audience from the beginning and leave your trainees praising your training abilities

Certificate Programs include additional post-course resources:

• On demand lessons to reinforce key skills
• Best practice skill refreshers
• Articles offering practical tips and tactics

Who Should Attend

If you’re new to training, a subject matter expert that needs to train others or a trainer who is looking for new, more effective approaches to learning, this is the ideal seminar for you.

What You Will Cover

Active Adult Learning

• Determining how team-building, on-the-job assessment and immediate learning involvement can occur at the earliest stages of a training program

Assessment

• Distinguishing problems that can be addressed by training
• Devising questions for use in a training assessment

Objectives

• Focusing on outcomes and results, rather than topics
• Crafting learning objectives
• Identifying objectives as affective, behavioral or cognitive

Planning Active Training

• Choosing methods and formats to meet an objective
• Creating a plan of action by using behavioral styles content

Facilitating Presentations and Activities

• Preparing to deliver a 10- to 15-minute training segment
• Engaging in a wide range of learning activities

Opening Exercises

• Sharing reflections on past experiences of opening exercises
• Developing an opening exercise

Brain-Friendly Lectures

• Demonstrating differences between brain-friendly and non-brain-friendly lectures
• Preparing brain-friendly lectures

Lecture Alternatives

• Sharing information through the jigsaw method
• Using learning tools and applying lecture alternatives

Experiential Activities

• Exploring when and how experiential learning approaches can meet training challenges
• Using mental imagery, role-playing, games and simulations
• Applying new learning in real time

Extending the Value of Training

• Describing a variety of blended and supportive tools and activities
• Deciding when to use tools: before, during or after training for back-on-the-job application

Evaluating Training

• Using Kirkpatrick’s model and given examples to determine evaluation levels
• Considering evaluation questions

Facilitating Presentations and Activities

• Delivering/facilitating an actual 10- to 15-minute training segment
• Receiving feedback

Closing Activities

• Experiencing and applying several types of closing activities