Our Train the Trainer workshops are considered the professional standard in training programs based on over 100,000 attendees who are dramatically improving the design and delivery of their training programs in addition to peer and trade magazine reviews.
•Watch retention rates soar to 90% or more with our special review and memory techniques
•Acquire proven techniques and processes to design and deliver training in 25% less time
•Learn how to shrewdly use participant buy-in, accountability and personal action plans to help ensure transfer to the job with measurable results
•Get the interaction dynamics of a small group (5–7 members) even in sessions with several hundred attendees
•Appeal to all adult learning styles.
•The most exciting, rewarding and immediately useful training “boot camp” you will ever attend!
Bring This Program In-House
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2-Day Agenda
1. Effective Training Opener: The Key to Success
• Why an effective opening is critical
• Getting people mentally and physically in the room
• The difference between openers and icebreakers
• Why icebreakers should NEVER be used
• 3 Tests of an effective opener
• 4 powerful openers – and how to get 50 others
2. Effective Training Closers: Important for the Future
• Why trainers almost NEVER close, but should
• One thing trainers do that NEVER should be done at the end of a program
• Why one of the LAST things done in a program should be done almost FIRST
• Three tests of an effective close
• 3 powerful closes – and how to get 30 others
3. Retention and Learning: What It’s all About
• How to apply current research on learning
• The Presentation – Training – Facilitation continuum
• Instructor-led, participant-centered training
• Pike's 5 Laws of Adult Learning
• Memory and learning – 7 things you need to know
4. Needs Assessment: Doing the Right Thing
• Making sure you deliver the right answer
• How to satisfy three key groups with your design and delivery
• Applying the KILI formulas to more sound design and transfer
5. Learner Motivation: Without it They are Lost
• How to keep them learning after you've stopped teaching
• Basic definitions
• Five ways motivation gets killed
• Eleven ways to motivate adults to apply and transfer what they've learned
6. Developing Learning Objectives
• The Four Domains of Learning
• Setting SMART objectives
7. Choosing Instructional Methods: No One Answer
• Tapping the power of Pike's Instructional Design Grid
• Applying the Involvement Continuum
• Using the Seven Learning Objectives
• Nine considerations of the learning environment and how they impact your design/delivery
• Thirty-six alternatives to lecture
8. Designing a High-Impact Lesson Approach
• Eight dynamic attention getters/energizers that will keep your participants focused and learning
• Seven powerful transitions that increase audience buy-in and participation
• Seven powerful ways to revisit and reinforce content
9. Lesson Development: Getting it Right the First Time (Almost)
• Applying the 90/20/8 Rule
• How to use mind mapping to reduce development time 25–50%
• “Chunking” your content using the CPR method
• The three stages of a learner's safety cycle
• Looking at a sample day
10. Lesson Application
• The two radio stations all participants listen to and how to get them to tune in to your content
• Structuring action plans – Making sure they put it all to work
• Creating a 30-60-90 day action/accountability plan
11. Preparing the Learning Environment: Don't Overlook This
• Pre- and post-preparation and debriefing
• Three key considerations for any room arrangement
• Four characteristics of an ideal training room and what to do when the room is less than ideal
12. Classroom Management: Creating an Environment
Where Learning Takes Place
• Physical room arrangement
• Having participants set their own standards and norms (Hint: they will be much tougher than yours)
• Dealing with difficult participants
13. How to “CTTize” Your Existing Training: 6 Critical Steps for Increasing the Impact of Your Current Content
• Applying the CPR process
• How to prioritize your content: need to know, nice to know, where to go
• Using the 90/20/8 rule
• Applying the C.O.R.E. elements to your content
• Developing transfer strategies
• Creating your evaluation process
14. Applying the CTT Approach to “Specific Situations”:
It's Still the Same, But…
• Computer training
• Technical training
• E-Learning
Public Workshop - Presentation Skills for Trainers
Attention New Trainers and Subject Matter Experts!
Increase Your Confidence and Impact!
Presentation Skills for Trainers and Subject Matter Experts
(formerly Train-the-Trainer 101)
Attend this 3-Day workshop if you are preparing to:
• Present to an important audience.
• Train employees.
• Transition from subject matter expert to trainer.
• Present new material.
• Enhance your platform skills.
Participants walk away with:
1.Fifteen pitfalls new presenters/ trainers could avoid if they only knew…
2.Key benefits to presenting and training experience
3.Take the mystery out of training/ presenting terminology
4.Multiple approaches to propel your presentation with effective Powerpoint®
5.Prop, tools & object lessons which speed transfer to long-term memory
6.Facts about body language many masters don’t even practice…
7.Ways to temper tension, project your voice and set the pace for learners
8.Tactics to use their brain power to make your job easier
9.Steps to prepare you and your room so participant prosper
10.The gist of gestures and where they fit
11.Terrific transitions that take your audience from point A to point B
12.Tips for verbal, visual and vocal cues
13.Quality questioning techniques far superior to “Are there any Questions?”
14.Ten tools that grab, ignite and keep the learner engaged
15.Practice integrating your survival kit into an upcoming presentation
16.Checklists to help you write objectives, assess performance and organize your material
17.Ways to distinguish learners who “get it” from those who “don’t”
Become a more confident, effective and prepared trainer/presenter. This workshop focuses on the basics of adult learning, body language and delivery style. Use this knowledge to communicate more effectively, with better results. Plus, you will have the opportunity to practice what you've learned and take away a DVD of your own adapt, adopt and apply practice.
BONUS Takeaways:
•Scan Plan Aid
•Behavioral Checklist Job Aid
•Preparation Checklist
•39 Terrific Teasers for Trainers: Puzzlers that Peak Interest in Your Topic by Betsy Allen MBA CSP and Bob Pike CSP CPAE (NEW 2007 release) and High Impact Presentations: 67 Strategies to Thrive – Not Just Survive – in Your Presenter Role By Bob Pike CSP CPAE and Betsy Allen MBA CSP (New 2007 release)
Whether you’re terrified, timid or inspired, this seminar was designed for you! You’ll gain confidence, discover how to motivate learners and ignite learner engagement. This workshop will help you get rave reviews from participants, project confidence and enthusiasm, and make dull material come alive!
By seeing it in action and practicing in a safe environment, you’ll value positive visibility, body language and your own delivery style. You’ll test transitional techniques that are far superior to “Are there any questions?” and experience how to generate quality questions instead.
Enrollment Limited to UP to 24 participants — sign up TODAY!
For more information or to register by phone call 800-383-9210.
