Train the Trainer

Explain Kolb’s model of how adults learn

Describe the 4 key learning styles and how to engage people with different learning styles

Apply the training cycle to plan, design, deliver and evaluate your training

Write SMART training objectives

Use and select a variety of methods to make your training interactive, engaging and effective

Describe ways to deal with difficult participants or situations that may arise

Apply your training skills to deliver structured training sessions with more competence and confidence

Assessing needs

Planning and preparing

Implementing training

Reviewing

Assessing

Understanding the task

Assessing the learner’s current ability

Identifying the gap

Having clear outcomes in mind

What people learn:
o Knowledge
o Skill
o Understanding

How people learn: preferences and learning styles and methods suitable for each

Planning a programme

Planning a session – a systematic approach

Assessing risk

Writing and using SOPs in training

Explanation and Demonstration

Questioning and Listening

Observation and Feedback

Facilitation and Debriefing skills

Using questioning, listening and feedback to help learners solve problems and develop confidence

How to measure reactions and participant satisfaction

Use of tests and assessments to measure learning

Organisational measures of learning transfer

You will have the opportunity to deliver two training sessions on this programme and gain valuable feedback to support you in your ongoing training delivery.

Participants are required to prepare a 15 minute training session. This can be something you have delivered before or something you’ve created for the course. Please prepare and include any visual aids you would usually use when speaking and bring them with you, f possible, please also bring your smart phone (with camera, and memory capacity for a short video clip to be added), and headphones.