HOW TO PRESENT TRAINING
WITH IMPACT!
A TWO-DAY PUBLIC WORKSHOP
Thursday and Friday, January 26-27, 2012
Monday and Tuesday, April 16-17, 2012
Monday and Tuesday, September 17-18, 2012
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Courtyard by Marriott Springfield
6710 Commerce Street
Springfield, VA. 22150
9 AM - 5 PM each day; registration opens at 8:30 AM each morning
Tuesday and Wednesday, February 28-29, 2012
Thursday, and Friday, July 12-13, 2012
Thursday and Friday, November 1-2, 2012
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Hotel Huntington Beach
7667 Center Avenue, Huntington Beach, CA 92647
9 AM - 5 PM each day; registration opens at 8:30 AM each morning
Tuesday and Wednesday, January 24-25, 2012
Monday and Tuesday, April 16-17, 2012
Thursday and Friday, September 6-7, 2012
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Hilton Garden Inn
4090 Belt Line Road
Addison, TX 75001
9 AM - 5 PM each day; registration opens at 8:30 AM each morning
Tuesday and Wednesday, May 1-2, 2012
Wednesday and Thursday, September 5-6, 2012
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The Georgia Society of CPAs
Atlanta Financial Center, North Tower, 4th Floor
3352 Peachtree Rd.
Atlanta, GA. 30326
9 AM - 5 PM each day; registration opens at 8:30 AM each morning
If all or part of your job requires you to present training programs, this two-day workshop will improve your delivery of the content and build your rapport and confidence with your learners. Whether you are a personnel officer, training department manager, trainer, coordinator or specialist, you too can feel comfortable and "in charge" while successfully communicating your training message.
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$1199/per person for the two day workshop if you register more than one month prior to the workshop; $1299/per person general registration. Group discounts available for groups of 3 or more participants from the same organization.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
Essentials of adult learning and how to make training "come to life" are covered. Other topics include climate setting, selective lecturing, how to increase participation, improve discussions, and demonstrations. During this highly interactive workshop you teach a five-minute lesson to a partner and get feedback on your natural teaching style. Special techniques to relate to mature learners are developed along with appropriate audiovisual support.
Pre-workshop assignment:
Identify a course you currently facilitate as a focal point for the workshop so you can apply what you learn from the course to it throughout the session. If they exist, bring a description, outline and objectives of this course along with the business need being met through this training.
WORKSHOP CONTENT
- Workshop content and objectives
- Training Skills inventory
- Set personal objectives for this session
Unit 1: Get Ready to Train
- Get off to a good start -- How to set and reset an adult learning climate
- What's in it for the learner?
- Balance your time between climate setting, content and application
- Session starters to begin well: purpose of session starters, criteria for effective starters, how to select session starters, and examples
- Suggested seating arrangements
Unit 2: Helping Adults Learn
- Teach a five-minute lesson to a partner
- Evaluate ten aspects of your instructional style
- Learn how to build retention
- Identify 3 styles of learning
- Apply 18 adult learning concepts to enhance learning
- Increase learner retention by using 5 steps of adult learning
- Ask key questions to process learning through 5 adult learning steps
- Trainer Style Inventory
- Relate your training style to adult learners -- flex your style to be more effective
Unit 3: Think Like a Course Designer
- The anatomy of a module
- Select appropriate methods based on the learning objective
- Use effective technical training methods for recall and application
- Work with mature, experienced learners effectively
- Provide sufficient practice to change behavior
- Pace methods to avoid boredom
Unit 4: Facilitation Skills for Trainers
- Butterflies and what to do
- Use effective delivery techniques
- Avoid overuse of lectures with participation techniques
- Increase participation and "discovery" learning
- Make software training come to life
- Improve the productivity of discussions: Keys to group process
- Discussion techniques that work
- Use four types of questions to facilitate learning and interaction
- Get the right amount of class participation by using six steps to asking better questions
- Practice using paraphrase for better understanding
- How to conduct effective demonstrations and skill practice
- How to facilitate low risk role play
- Deal assertively with difficult learners
Unit 5: Audio Visual Techniques
- Select appropriate audio-visual support
- Advantages and disadvantages of different audio-visual support
- Charting to generate discussion and verify understanding
- Use electronic presentation technology well
Unit 6: Resource Tool Kit and Action Plan
- Use feedback on their natural training style by teaching a lesson to a partner to improve their teaching approach.
- Match their training style to five adult learning steps.
- Implement adult learning concepts using three unique process tools.
- Use adult learning techniques to improve retention and reduce learner resistance.
- Use a 4-step formula for setting and resetting the learning climate to welcome the learner, provide information for the course, get information about the learner and transition to next topics.
- Create a session starter to meet three criteria.
- Involve the learner using a variety of tools and techniques.
- Identify different ways learners prefer to learn and how to adjust the trainer's teaching style to besuccessful.
- Identify strengths and weaknesses in the instructor's training style.
- Select the best method to train learners.
- Pace methods to maintain high energy and active learning by the participants.
- Practice making training interesting, not boring.
- Identify how much practice is needed to build a new skill.
- Practice 12 "must know" characteristics of participative lecturing
- Practice ways to get good responses during training in regular and computer lab classroom settings.
- Structure role play and demonstrations to minimize risk.
- Use 4 basic types of questions appropriately to facilitate discussions.
- Prepare to ask questions using a 6-step system.
- Use 24 pointers to overcome fear of speaking before a group.
- Deal with difficult group members effectively.
Workshop Objectives
By the end of the workshop, the participant will be able to:
What Past Participants Say:
"I have learned so much in two days that it's incredible."
"An excellent, 'rounded' training program -warm, practical and relevant."
"This was well worth the time and money."
"The whole seminar was beneficial - but learning how to keep the class' attention was very important."
CEUs:
This workshop qualifies for 1.2 of continuing education units.