Training Skills: Train the Trainer: Innovative Learning Techniques

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Course Overview

This practical and engaging course will ensure the continued development of trainers and learning providers by equipping them with the latest in accelerated learning and brain-friendly techniques to engage and connect with their delegates and increase their skill retention.

The course provides the opportunity to develop and practise the techniques using a comprehensive trainer toolkit in a low risk environment, and to receive feedback from peers and experienced Hemsley Fraser trainers. A fantastic opportunity for new and experienced trainers to further their professional development and provide motivational, memorable and dynamic courses.

Audience

Suitable for both new and experienced trainers who want to either learn new or refresh existing skills to help encourage the effective transfer of knowledge and skills.

Skills Gained

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Build on your existing experience.
• Make training more relevant to the workplace.
• Apply a comprehensive and flexible tool kit of training skills.
• Use different training techniques with confidence.
• Handle difficult situations confidently.
• Be creative in choosing and developing training techniques.
• Adapt your style and method to suit a range of individuals and groups.
• Improve the participation and quality of group discussions.
• Use approaches that encourage learning and development.
• Use approaches that encourage learning retention.

Course Outline

Reviewing Your Current Techniques

• Understanding the learning cycle
• Getting inside the delegate's head and understanding their expectations
• The importance of creating a positive and supportive learning environment
• • Critiquing your current training style
  • "Priming"
• How forward thinking can increase retention by up to 34%
• Practical methods of engaging learners before they even walk into the room

Preparation and Set up

• Fail to prepare, prepare to fail - your essential checklist to ensure event success
• Setting learner states - how to get your delegates in the frame of mind to learn
• The learning environment - easy ways to get it right

Powerful Introductions

• Your personal brand and body language - video feedback session
• How to gain credibility from your audience
• Selecting and using appropriate icebreakers to relax delegates, break down barriers and encourage participation

Learning and Your Brain

• The learning cycle uncovered
• How do your learners' brains like to learn? - analyse and understand the different ways we process information
• Developing "brain friendly" learning techniques and activities
• Matching techniques and activities to learning styles

Accelerated Learning Techniques

• An exploration into the theory and application of the latest accelerated learning techniques to excite and engage all your learners

Cartooning for Trainers

• Can't draw? It doesn't matter. Learn how to produce quick, colourful and engaging flipcharts to stimulate and motivate.

Creative Learning Activities

• An opportunity to practice stimulating learning activities including visualisation, jigsaw learning, storytelling, sociograms and debating.

Handling Difficult Situations

• What causes difficult behaviour in a training environment?
• The successful trainer's handling guide for difficult participants - handy and practical tips to resolve issues
• Avoiding fatigue and the "post lunch" dip
• What to do when you don't know the answers

Reviewing and Applying Learning

• How the human memory works - short term and long-term
• Twenty imaginative and practical ways to review and cement learning
• Transferring learning to the workplace using the Kirkpatrick model
• Measuring return on investment - an introduction to cost benefit analysis
• Closing the session - how to make it memorable

Personal Development

• Development of a specific action plan to adapt and use new skills and techniques

Training Skills: Train the Trainer: Innovative Learning Techniques / TS-ILT