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Train the Trainer
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Instructor Led |
Overview: |
| Train the trainer is a component of continuous professional career development for those aspiring to supervisory/management positions or who hold leadership positions, where training is a vital competence. This course is often seen as a stepping stone towards enhancing a career in the field of training, learning and development, Human Resources, as well as supervisory and management roles.
This course provides for an introduction to the general principles of learning and development and an insight into the training cycle. During the course Presentation skills are also emphasised. The course is highly interactive and fast paced. Skills on how to prepare, deliver and review training sessions are dealt with on both theoretical and practical levels. This is a challenging and exciting course and both participants and organisations gain great benefits from it.
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Target Audience: |
| The course is generic and applicable to trainers in all areas. The course is suited to trainers who require an understanding of how to train individuals and in small groups.
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Key Participant Benefits: |
- Simple yet effective stepped method means easier mastery of skills
- Creates more confident and interactive method of training to increase effectiveness of learning mastery, taking into consideration different learning styles of the participants
- There is an emphasis on building the confidence and self-assurance of the less experienced trainer by looking at handling difficult participants and awkward situations and questions
- Allows participants to explore delivery options in a supportive environment
- Includes visual aid and other resource preparation
- Videos of participants heightens the learning impact and allows for all-important self-evaluation; the trainer sees what their audience sees and is able to effect self-improve
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Key Business Benefits |
- Training participants are encouraged to correctly identify the real needs of the organisation and act on those needs, thereby ensuring that the training is relevant and necessary
- Boosts productivity by transferring knowledge and skill more effectively to the learner
- Participants of Train the Trainer exhibit increased confidence and skills, and the benefits associated with a professional foundation in training enhance the delivery methods, structure, time frames, relevance and body of knowledge received by the students
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| Lesson 1: The principles of work based training |
- Competency based training
- Competency standards and how to use them
- Working with training packages
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| Lesson 2: Adult Learners |
- Readiness to learn
- Orientation to learning
- Learning styles
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| Lesson 3: The main principles of adult learning |
- Barriers to learning and solutions
- Motivation
- Language, literacy and numeracy issues
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| Lesson 4: The effective trainer |
- Roles of trainer
- Managing the learning environment
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Effective questioning techniques
- Dealing with difficult learners
- Providing feedback
- Rectifying and modifying sessions
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| Lesson 5: The training cycle |
- Identify learners needs
- Training needs analysis
- Planning for training
- Delivery of training
- Assessment methodology
- Self-evaluation
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