Training Skills For Trainers

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Course Overview

The course covers the techniques and methods that enable people to become confident and successful trainers.

Everything learned is practised thoroughly in two complete training sessions that are prepared and delivered by each delegate. Full tutorial feedback is given in a constructive and positive way.

Audience

New and existing trainers who need to learn how to prepare their material thoroughly, and to deliver training sessions effectively and professionally to small groups. The course covers the techniques and methods that enable people to become confident and successful trainers.

The course is ideal for all who are required to plan, prepare, deliver and evaluate structured training sessions for given groups of trainees.

Skills Gained

Completion of this course will enable delegates to:

• Link the systematic approach to training to the trainer's role in a business-driven training environment.
• Write training objectives.
• Select, sequence and structure the training content to achieve training objectives for particular trainee groups.
• Deliver effective training sessions.
• Select and use visual aids to support training sessions.
• Identify solutions to difficult situations which can occur during training sessions.
• Apply evaluation methods to confirm training objective achievement, and to assess changes in competence.

Course Outline

• Introduction to Training: why organisations train; linking training needs to business performance; developing a systematic approach; ensuring training meets business needs; qualities of a successful trainer.
• Competences: identifying the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that are present in every competence.
• The Learning Process: how people learn; how the trainer can capitalise on this learning process; impact of trainees on your training event.
• Learning Styles: preliminary discussion of learning styles and the psychology of how people learn; completion of the learning styles questionnaire; the four dimensions of learning style and learning preference, and the implications for the trainer and their trainees.
• Objectives in Training: how to establish a target and measuring mechanism to ensure training events are a success.
• Structuring a Training Session: deciding scope and sequence of materials; devising the structure and features; understanding how questions aid the learning process.
• Visual Aids: effective use of the main trainer aids, eg whiteboard, computer projection, overhead projectors, and the flip chart.
• Alternative Training Methods: an overview of principal training methods; matching training objectives and learning styles with training methods; use of video as a training method.
• Trainee Problems: analysing and solving common problems and overcoming difficult situations that can sometimes occur.
• Evaluating Training: how to measure learning outcomes; did you meet training objectives?
• Giving Instruction: delegates develop and deliver two training sessions and receive feedback and help from the trainer; they also give constructive feedback on sessions delivered by others on the course.
• Action Plan: participants plan and discuss what they will do on return to work.

Training Skills For Trainers / cm63723