TRAIN THE TRAINER

 

You can successfully train, correct your training mistakes and improve instructional performance. But being well versed in the subject is not enough--it takes more than knowledge to get your ideas across. We need to know how to make people want to listen and believe us. This course will help you enhance HOW you say what you say, so that your ideas don't go unrecognized. You'll receive a tool kit of ideas to help you to:

 

·  Design and deliver training for greater impact and results

·  Involve every person, regardless of group size

·  Handle problem situations and difficult people successfully

·  Analyze your audience-it is the source of your confidence

·  Design openings that command attention - create common bonds

·  Start things off right--use your first impression to your advantage

·  Use small groups, role plays simulations, exercises, puzzles, problem solving to maximize participation

·  Organize information flow to keep your audience's attention

·  Develop a structure that assures you will never lose your place

·  Handle problem questions that put you on the spot

·  Avoid the ten deadly sins that cause people to resist training

·  Use your own personal stories for profit, add humor appropriately

·  Polish your presentation style--maximize your credibility

·  Use visual aids to your learner's advantage

·  Develop and use effective body language gestures and eye contact

·  Manage anxiety-learn the latest techniques for overcoming stage fright

 

 

COURSE CONTENT

PREPARATION: START THINGS OFF RIGHT

·  Understand Proper Preparation

·  Analyze Your Audience: The People, Their Attitudes, Knowledge and Needs

·  Decide Your Destination and Plan Your Approach

·  Develop "Take-Out" Activities that Assure Ideas Get Used

·  Gather Your Provisions and Set the Stage

·  Create Attention, Generate Interest, Stimulate Desire, and Motivate Action

 

HOW TO ALLOW ADULTS TO LEARN THE MOST

·  Keep Adults on the Edge of Their Seats- Methods to Motivate Adults

·  Avoid Destroying Natural Motivation

·  Use Recognition, Encouragement and Approval Effectively

 

HOW TO INVOLVE EVERY PERSON

·  Understand Group Dynamics/ Involvement

·  Develop Observation Skills

·  Use Innovative Intervention Techniques to Keep Participants Involved

 

HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR TRAINING FOR IMPACT

·  Meet Your Audiences Needs-Its the Source of Your Confidence

·  Design Different Types of Introductions To Get People's Attention

·  Develop the Body of Your Presentation Creatively

·  Use Proven Patterns to Sequence Your Presentations

·  Design Powerful Conclusions to Assure That All's Well That Ends Well

·  Answer Questions - Keep Cool Under Fire and Stay On Topic

 

USING THE ENVIRONMENT TO YOUR ADVANTAGE

·  Arrange the Physical Environment to Enhance Participation

·  Create a Non-Threatening Emotional Environment

·  Handle Difficult Participants With Tact

·  Understand and Deal Positively with Resistance

 

HOW TO TAKE EVERYTHING YOU KNOW AND MAKE SURE OTHERS CAN USE IT-- MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT

·  Use Resource Material Effectively

·  Hand-outs That Work for Your and Not Against You

·  Know What Resource Material Works Best For You and Your Audience

HOW TO USE VISUAL AIDS: KNOW WHEN TO ...WHEN NOT TO

·  Live By the Three Rules of Thumb

·  Choose the Most Appropriate Medium

·  Apply Good Design Strategies

·  Use A Variety of Visuals Effectively

 

HOW TO ENCOURAGE PARTICIPANTS INTERACTION

·  Structure Relevant Role plays, Case Studies, Projects

·  Develop Effective Group Dynamic Materials

·  Facilitate the Group- Keep Control While you Keep Everyone Participating

 

HOW TO COME ACROSS AS COMPETENT AND DYNAMIC-FINISHING TOUCHES

·  Control Performance Anxiety-Overcome Stage Fright

·  Use Your Image Impact to Your Advantage

·  Perfect Your Platform Skills

·  Develop Vocal and Non-Verbal Techniques To Improve Your Delivery

·  Use the 4 P's to Minimize Anxiety

PLAN - Analyze the audience, visualize to eliminate anxiousness

PREPARE - Select relevant materials, use the fail-safe rhetorical question method to build a dynamic program and never get lost!

PRACTICE - Design openings that command attention and get you through the stress of standing up and beginning

PREVIEW - Learn presentation techniques that work keep audience on the edge of their seats with involvement.

 

This class can include video taping of participants for feedback purposes.