Training The Trainer
About the Workshop
No organization can function without well-trained employees. The first step to good training is to develop good trainers. This seminar focuses on teaching the prospective or experienced trainer tips for communicating with adult learners.
Objectives:
- Understand how adults learn
- Analyze what the trainees need to learn
- Focus on verifiable objectives
- Develop a training plan
- Refine your communication skills
- Overcome resistance to learning
- Evaluate students’ progress
Topics:
- Training employees – the key to an organization’s survival and success
- Adults are different from kids – how they learn
- Deciding what employees need to know – teaching the essentials to busy people
- Verifiable objectives – how to define objectives – how to verify learning – demonstrating and testing proficiency
- When they don’t want to change – how to overcome resistance to learning new ideas, new methods, new work styles
- Communication is key – say what you mean – listen, listen, listen
- Putting the plan into action – the dynamics of training
(Photo Courtesy of Markus Spiske)