Trainer Development: Core Skills
Tailor-make your own one-to-five day Trainer Development experience
by selecting from the training modules below.
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Module 1: How Adults Learn Best*
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Participants discover for themselves the essential principles of adult learning in this evocative and essential module.
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Module 2: Identifying and Analyzing Training Needs
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Participants learn and practice foundational research tools to ensure a relevant training program.
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De-Mystifying Workshop Design* |
Participants:
- apply an easy, four-step process to organize content.
- design techniques to arouse participants' interest
and investment in learning in the first 5 minutes.
- design participatory activities to achieve learning outcomes.
- develop a real-life draft lesson plan to use immediately.
- receive invaluable feedback on their design from instructor
and peers.
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Module 4: Making the Most of "The Intensified You:" Unlocking the
Secrets of Physical Presence
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Learn to "pump up" your own unique gifts to be the best possible presenter. By practicing effective use of your voice and body language, learn to exude confidence and charisma no matter what the subject area.
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Module 5: Using Learning Styles Effectively
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Innovative self-assessment
and application to your training design.
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Module 6: One-on-One and Small Group Coaching
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Individualized instruction and coaching for groups 5 or smaller. Can be used as a stand-alone training piece, or as additional, on-going support for individuals who have been trained.
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Module 7: Classroom Management: When The Going Gets Tough
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Participants learn and practice skills to manage difficult dynamics in the classroom.
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Trainer Development: Instructional Design
When You Must Write for Others: Curriculum Development Made
Easy
Participants develop written training sessions using a template
and process that accelerates the instructional design process. Field-tested
for several years with a variety of high-tech and "soft-skill"training
designers, this module ensures participants can develop curriculum
any other trainer can use with ease.
(Pre-requisite: Modules 1 and 3.)
Advanced Train-the-Trainer
from Guila Muir
Purpose: To advance the training design and delivery skills
of experienced trainers. This course is a three-day, intensive "design
and present" laboratory that will kick your training skills
up multiple levels. Participants walk out of this session with
the world-class training skills to use in any environment.
Who Should Attend:
Trainers with a minimum of two years' experience. This course
also provides helpful templates and design strategies to those
who develop training.
You'll Learn To:
- Ask the three questions that must be answered before
undertaking any training initiative.
- Develop a number of needs assessment approaches that work for
YOU and your organization.
- Build trust and safety in the classroom.
- Grab your participants' interest and involvement in the first
30 seconds.
- Develop learning outcomes that fit into your organization's
mission and make training easy.
- Choose from a variety of interactive techniques that let you
know if your participants are "getting it."
- Develop conclusions that reinforce learning interactively.
- Teach in a highly participatory, engaging style that motivates
your participants.
- Evaluate student learning both in and outside the classroom.
- Build ways to ensure that the training "lasts" outside
the classroom.
- Enhance your presentation skills.
- Increase your confidence and authority inside the classroom.
Session Outcomes:
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- Effectively identify and analyze your students' training needs.
- Use
an easy instructional design process to develop training sessions
on any subject.
- Describe at least 7 interactive evaluation methods
(both in-class and post-training.)
- Model higher levels of confidence,
authority, and ease in presenting training content.
- Demonstrate
mastery of these skills through presenting your own mini-training
session.
Teaching Methods You'll Experience in this Course Include:
- Individual, dyad, small-group and large-group exercises
- Lecturettes
- Instructor and participant demonstrations
- Application and practice of all the skills that are introduced.
Call Guila Muir and Associates at (206) 725-1994 for more information.
You can also write to: info@guilamuir.com to
explore how this workshop can be customized to your organization's
needs.
Evaluation Techniques that Make the Classroom Come Alive
How do you "know they know?" Expert trainers
check learning regularly throughout their sessions. This four-hour
workshop provides a dozen ways trainers can ensure that learning
occurs. The techniques address all learning styles and engage trainers
and participants alike.
In Evaluation Techniques that Make the Classroom Come
Alive, you will:
- Learn the latest on brain research, learning, and evaluation.
- Immediately apply a variety of in-class evaluation techniques
to your current training sessions.
- Develop evaluation questions that measure different levels
of learning.
- Walk away with a booklet of evaluation strategies you can use
over and over.
For more information, write to info@guilamuir.com or
call (206) 725-1994.
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