Using Activities to Make Training Fun
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Most people have been at a party or some other social occasion where someone has told an inappropriate joke and ruined the mood (at least temporarily). Likewise, we have all been somewhere where the class clown is able to lighten the mood and help people have fun. The good news is that humor can help you make your training sessions just as engaging as those fun social occasions. Even better, you do not need to be the class clown or an award winning comedian to do it. This course will help you identify what kind of humor you can bring to the classroom, and how games can help you engage your participants.
How You Will Benefit:
- Understand how training can include the use of humor and games
- Explore different types of games
- Identify methods to elicit participant buy-in
- Understand humor principles in adult learning
- Troubleshoot when games go badly
- Develop your own games
What You Will Cover:
- Adult learning principles
- Let’s have some fun!
- Obtaining buy-in
- Choosing the right game
- When games go badly
- Using humor in training
- Wavy lines
- Quick and easy games
- How to create a game
The Practical Trainer
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If you do on the job training in your organization, this course can help you feel more comfortable and more competent. You will explore how adults learn and take a step-by-step approach to create training sessions that meet employee needs and you will have the opportunity to practice these skills in a safe environment. Training results are too important to leave to chance. Start today, so you will be prepared when you are asked to stand and deliver.
How You Will Benefit:
- Recognize the importance of considering the participants and their training needs, including the different learning styles and adult learning principles
- Know how to write objectives and evaluate whether these objectives have been met at the end of a training session
- Develop an effective training style, using appropriate training aids and techniques
- Conduct a short group training session that incorporates these training concepts
What You Will Cover:
- Successful training programs
- Adult learning principles
- Learning styles
- Training objectives
- Effective trainers versus ineffective trainers
- Training aids
- Training techniques
- The training cycle
- Presentation skills
- Using visual aids
- Dealing with difficult trainees
- Evaluating your training
Survival Skills for the New Trainer
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Few people choose training and development while they are still in school, and yet there are talented and knowledgeable trainers working in every industry. Some individuals become trainers because they are passionate about sharing their knowledge and helping people. Others become trainers because their employer asks them to get involved in mentoring, training, or coaching new or existing employees. Trainers also get started when they want to make some changes to their daily activities, but wish to continue contributing to a particular organization or industry. If you are thinking about becoming a trainer, or have started doing some training already, and what to know more about what will help you to become an excellent trainer, this course will help. This course is designed as an exploration of the essential skills that trainers need to develop, and to get you started on the learning process in an interactive and fun environment.
How You Will Benefit:
- Understand the essential background for trainers to have
- Explore how being genuine enhances training
- Identify the elements of good questions
- Understand how to apply listening skills
- Develop rapport building strategies
- Describe the essentials of presentation skills
What You Will Cover:
- What Makes a Good Trainer?
- Projecting the Right Image
- Being Genuine
- Acting Assertively vs. Aggressively
- Asking the Right Questions to Get the Right Answers
- Listening
- Connecting With People
- Presentation Skills
- Essentials for Success
- Do’s and Don’ts for New Trainers
Developing Your Training Program
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Training is an essential element of development in any organization. Being knowledgeable and continuing to learn throughout your career can make you a very valuable asset. We also know that training and orientation for newly hired employees is a key factor in retention. This workshop is designed for a trainer who wants to develop training programs that are meaningful, practical, and will benefit both trainees and the organizations they work for.
How You Will Benefit:
- Describe the essential elements of a training program
- Apply different methodologies to program design
- Demonstrate skills in preparation, research and delivery of strong content
- Explain an instructional model
- Be prepared to create a training program proposal
What You Will Cover:
- Program design
- Identifying needs
- The training model
- The program’s basic outline
- Evaluation strategies
- Defining your approach
- Researching and developing content
- Pre-assignments in training
- Choosing openings and energizers
- Training instruments, assessments and tools
- Creating supporting materials
- Testing the program
- Creating proposals
- Building rapport
- Pulling it all together
Advanced Skills for the Practical Trainer
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Behind every spectacular training session is a lot of preparation and meticulous attention to detail. The truly skilled trainer can make a program exciting. The learners will have fun while they are learning. The facilitator has been able to involve their emotions as well as their minds. You will see the involvement and you will feel the energy.
To reach this stage as an adult educator isn’t always easy, but success is not just for the naturally gifted. It is possible for all of us who put effort into our personal growth and development, because we want the enormous satisfaction that comes from working with others to help them reach their potential as human beings. This three-day workshop is your start to that goal.
How You Will Benefit:
- Enhance your understanding of learning styles & how to accommodate all learning styles in the classroom
- Understand the key principles of effective communication in a workshop setting
- Use a variety of training techniques to stimulate participation
- Develop a plan and prepare for an effective training session
- Understand the different levels of evaluation and when to use each
- Understand how and when to add fun and humor to your training session
- Identify advanced interventions for difficult situations
- Practice the skills needed for a team presentation
What You Will Cover:
- Preparing to learn
- Understanding learning
- Competencies for adult educators
- Accommodating learning preferences
- Adult learning
- The art of facilitation
- Planning a workshop
- Visual aids
- Your role as an effective communicator
- Questioning as a training technique
- Kirkpatrick’s levels of evaluation
- On-the-job support
- Dealing with difficult situations
- Adding some fun
- Team teaching
- Training preparation and presentations
