presents American Management Association Seminars
Training The Trainer
Seminar No: 08507 -XNBB
CEU Credits: 3
Length: 3 days
"Thanks for such an energizing week! I am taking home so many wonderful ideas, tips and suggestions that I can apply at my own sessions." --Grace Palmer Miller Brewing Company
Get to know yourself and your style as a trainer and a learner. You’ll better know your trainees’ needs! The training field can change fast. New methodologies. New discoveries about the way adults learn. Changing expectations from trainees--and from your company. It’s a tough job. Now you don’t have to go it alone or try to keep up by the "seat of your pants." This powerful seminar from AMA 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 workshop will show you how to build confidence, engage your audience and leave your trainees singing your praises as a trainer.
Attendees:
Directors and managers with up to 0-3 years of experience, including those who manage network/systems, help desks, projects or databases...as well as finance personnel (e.g., controllers) who oversee and/or manage the IT budget.
How You Will Benefit:
- Know group needs and adjust your material to meet them
- Create excitement with music, visual aids, movement—even room setup
- Build your credibility with trainees and management
- Boost retention using the latest techniques in adult and accelerated learning
- Learn quick, effective ways to deal with difficult participants and worst case scenarios
- Open a workshop with confidence...close it with a wrap-up that guarantees learning
Outline:
Six Components of a Training Program
- Identify different expressions of training needs and respond appropriately
Adult Learning
- Use adult learning principles to foster accelerated learning
- Designing training—determining needs, setting objectives, choosing methods
- Identify different types of training effectiveness assessments
- Prepare a training outline
Potential Problems when Conducting the Program
- Productively respond to common logistical and ’set-up’ problems encountered during training
- Conduct training sessions that will avoid a number of potential legal issues
Training Styles
- Understand that you need to adjust your training style to different training situations and content
Revisiting and Revising Your Training Program
- Evaluate your planned training program for the proper blend of training styles
Presenting Training
- Deal with anxiety when presenting training
- Understand how to respond and use questioning in a training program
- Understand how to use visual aids in training
Conducting Your Training Program
- Receive feedback on the effectiveness of your training
- Develop skills at coaching others on increasing their training skill
- Build skills and self-critique by use of video feedback
Extras From AMA!
You’ll also take part in multiple skill practice sessions on videotape, so you can see for yourself what comes across to an audience. It’s a great way to get instant feedback. And the video is yours to keep.
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Learning Objectives
- Facilitate Training Sessions with Confidence
- Master the Basics of How Adults Learn
- Learn New Techniques That Will Help You Deliver Training That Sticks
- Develop Activities and Team Learning Exercises to Suit Your Organization
- Use Quick, Effective Ways to Deal with Difficult Participants- and Get on with Training
- Learn How to Apply Three Learning Styles, Left-and-Right Brain Theory, and Eight Types of Intelligence in Your Platform Presentations
The Course: What’s It All About?
- Introduction
- Major Course Objectives
- The Agenda
- Who Does What? Roles and Norms
- Facilitator Roles
- Participant Roles
- We Will . . . We Can't . . . We Won't
- Using the Notebook
- Trainer Wish List
- Meet, Greet and Network
- Glossary of Training Terms
Changing Trainee Expectations
- Identify the Ways That Expectations for Training Have Changed with Respect to Course Materials, Course Methods, Trainer Style, and Learner Outcomes
- Describe the Differences between Traditional Classroom Training and Accelerated Learning Approaches
- Identify the Characteristics of Accelerated Learning
Self-Discovery
- Use the Johari Window to Discover Blind Spots You May Have about Your Training Style
- Use the Johari Window as a Model to Give Feedback to Participants in the Courses You Train and Facilitate
- Identify the Four Training Variables That Are Present in Every Learning Situation
- Identify Your Personal Communication Style and Substyle
- Discuss the Strengths and Weaknesses of Your Personal Communication Style
- Determine How Your Communication Style May Affect You as a Trainer
- Identify the Communication Styles of Others and Recognize the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Styles
- Determine How a Participant’s Communication Style May Affect Him or Her as a Learner
- Recognize Methods of Adaptability and Identify Methods to Adapt Your Communication Style to Increase Your Effectiveness in the Classroom
Adult Learning
- Identify Training Variable #2: Training Purpose Levels
- Identify Training Variable #3: The Four Levels of Adult Learning
- Distinguish "Relationship" and "Data" as Variables of the Four Levels of Adult Learning
- Describe the Four Trainer Roles That Correspond to Adult Learner Levels
- Identify the Ways in Which Adults Learn
- Identify General Training Approaches That Work Best with Adults
Accelerated Learning Basics
- Describe the Components of Whole Brain Learning, Including:
- The Triune Brain
- The Left Brain
- The Right Brain
- 3 + 2 + 8
- Compare and Contrast the Three Regions of the Triune Brain
- Identify the Characteristics of the Right and Left Brains
- Identify the Components of "3 + 2 + 8"
- The Three Learning Styles
- The Two Organizing Principles
- The Eight Intelligences
- Identify the Style-Related Differences in the Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learner, Including Learning Preferences, Word Choices, and Body Language Styles of the Learner
- Identify the Language Cues of the Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learner
- Identify the Components and Steps of the Accelerated Learning Process
- Identify the Participant Role and the Trainer Role in Each of the Four Steps of The Accelerated Learning Process
Accelerated Learning Techniques
- Identify the Techniques of Accelerated Learning, Including:
- Back Home Application
- Brainwriting/Brainstorming
- Case Study
- Collaborative Activities
- Concert Review
- Environing Materials
- Demonstration in Class
- Flipcharts and Wallcharts
- Games
- Group Discussion
- Individual Coaching
- Lectures and Lecturettes
- Panel or Guest Expert
- Prework
- Question and Answer
- Reading Assignments
- Skill Practice
- Self-Assessment
- Sensory Imaging
- Structured Note-Taking
- Tests of Skill and Knowledge
- Tools and Tips
- Videos, Slides and Overheads
- Match Training Techniques with Different Learner Levels
- Discuss Some Pertinent Tools and Tips for Each of the Techniques
- Incorporate 3 + 2 + 8 in Each of the Accelerated Learning Techniques
The Accelerated Learning Process
- Use Principles of the Learning Curve to Design Training
- Describe Trainer Preparation and Classroom Preparation Tasks
- Identify Skills and Behaviors for Conducting Effective Training
Building Training Credibility
- List and Define the Five Components of Personal Credibility
- List the Three Stages in the Training Program in Which the Trainer Has an Opportunity to Develop Personal Credibility
- Explain the Impact of Clothing Choices, the Use of Quotes, and Verbal and Nonverbal Communication upon a Trainer’s Credibility
Skill Practices
- Define the Characteristics of Useful Feedback
- Prepare for Videotaped Skill Practices
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