Train The Trainer

Outline

How to Start a Training Session?

• Why Should We Spend Time on a “Welcome”?
• The Welcome Meeting
• Typical Welcome Session Outline
• The Facilitator’s Role
• Introduction Methods
• Introductory Ideas
• Expectations
• Training Needs Assessment
• Training Audit
• Course Goals, Objectives, Schedule
• Review Logistics
• Closure

Experimental Learning Cycle

• Designing Training with the ELC
• Session Objectives
• What do you Know About How Adults Learn?
• The Experiential Learning Cycle – ELC
• ELC The Theory
• Climate Setting
• Goal Clarification
• The Training Outcomes
• What Other Training Activities Have You Experienced?
• The Experience
• Retention
• Processing, Generalising, and Applying
• Closure

Communication Skills

• Overview of Communication Skills
• Common Methods of Communication
• Process of Sending and Receiving Information
• The Barriers to Understanding/Listening
• How Can We Improve Our Listening Skills?
• The Improvement of Listening and Facilitation Skills as Trainers
• Paraphrasing
• Summarising
• Questioning
• Verbal and Non-verbal Communication

Groups

• Rationale
• Overview
• Training Participants Groups
• Stages of Group Development
• Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning
• Group Dynamics, Processes, and Functions
• Behaviours Needed for a Group to Function
• Group Task and Maintenance Behaviors
• Strategies for Effective Group Processes
• Working Effectively with Groups

Designing a Training Session

• Creating a Training Programme
• The Basic Steps
• How Long Does it Take?
• The Needs Assessment
• Writing Instructional Objectives
• Types of Learning Objectives
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Attitude
• Action, Objectives, and Characteristics

Choosing Instructional Activities

• Visualise the Session
• Selecting an Activity
• Available Training Activities

Choose your Activity

• Choose your Activity
• Questioning, Processing, Generalisation, and Application
• Closure
• Writing Stage
• Testing and Starting Again

Closure

• Presentation
• Ending a Training Session
• Things to Do
• Review Content - Summary
• Remaining Questions
• Action Plan
• Evaluation
• Acknowledge Completion
• Closing Remarks
• Active Training Credo