Course Overview

This highly interactive 2-day course covers the basic training principles required to design and deliver courses on a one-to-one and group basis. This basic training skills course is aimed at those who are new to training, experienced trainers who want to review their current performance as trainers, or managers wanting to develop their staff.

Prerequisites

• • There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Content

• DAY 1

  
  

• Preparing for a course

  Delegates focus on why the training is needed and what the results of the training needs to be for the individuals, their team and the organisation as a whole:
  Training Aims, Objectives and Outcomes
  To identify Organisation and Individual training needs
  Understanding objectives and outcomes
  Setting ‘SMART’ course objectives

• Planning and Designing a course

  This session focuses the delegates on the importance of all aspects of the planning and design of the course:
  Plan, Design & Organise Training
  Factors to be taken into account when designing a training program
  Understanding different learning styles
  Experiential Learning
  Choosing the sequence of topics
  Delivery methods and how to choose
  Selecting the correct training resources to meet training objectives
  Identifying the advantages and disadvantages of training resources
  Task analysis
  Putting it all together, mindmaps, time allocation and balance checking
  Writing a training plan

• Day 2
• Delivery of Training

  This session helps delegates explore and develop their own individual training style. Where day 1 was about what is being delivered, day 2 is about how it is delivered and the credibility of the trainer:
  The Audience
  Points to consider regarding your audience
  Creating a climate conducive to learning
  First impressions, setting the scene and getting ‘buy-in’
  Dealing with difficult situations and awkward moments
  Materials
  Engaging the audience and building rapport
  Self management
  Basic presentation skills
  Body language and voice projection
  The message you send is the response you get
  Facilitating learning through presentations and activities
  The EDIP method of instruction
  Dealing with nerves and fear

• Practical exercise

  This session gives delegates an opportunity to deliver a short training session based upon the learnings of the first 3 sessions:
  Delegates presentation and personal feedback

• Ending a Course

  This final session focuses on how to assess the learning, throughout the course and at the end, to show that learners have achieved the objectives and outcomes set out at the beginning.
  Assessment & Evaluation of Training
  Identify different methods of assessment
  Scope and purpose of evaluation
  Writing an action plan

Included with this course

• • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues
  • Comprehensive course materials and exercises