Techniques for the Occasional Trainer

    

Summary:
In today's work environment, subject matter experts are being increasingly asked to train fellow employees, outside stakeholders and clients. Often these "instant trainers" are not familiar with the principles of adult learning or the techniques for designing an effective learning experience. This course provides a comprehensive tool-kit to help you acquire the core skills of a professional trainer. It provides practical help in designing training, and gives you an opportunity to practice in delivering a training session you have designed. Applying a structure and process that guarantees good results to a work-related topic of your choice, you'll learn how to define the learning objectives and design the training session using active learning. You'll get practical tips in presenting and personal feedback from your instructor on how to better engage and maintain your learners' interest. Finally, you will learn how to evaluate the effectiveness of your training through the collection of short-term and long-term feedback.

Duration:
2 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is designed for subject matter experts, program and product managers or anyone else at any level in the organization that may be called upon to present a training session.

Topics:

• Principles of adult learning
• How to design a successful training session
• How to deliver the training session successfully
• How to evaluate your training effectiveness

Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites required for this course.

Last Update: May 23, 2012