Learning Objectives
- Recognize the importance of considering different learning styles and adult learning principles when training employees
- Discover your preferred training styles and methods and learn about other training styles and methods available to you
- Explore frameworks, concepts, and models available to trainers
- Learn how to write objectives and evaluate whether these objectives have been met at the end of a training session.
- Develop an understanding of the experiential training process and how it helps to achieve desired skills, learning outcomes, and behaviors.
- Understand the importance of an instruction guide to help a trainer prepare and deliver effectively and consistently.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Developing a Successful Training Program
- Presenting vs. Training
- Building a train-the-trainer program
- Advantages of Training Workers
Lesson 2: Primary Learning Styles
- Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic
Lesson 3: Principles of Adult Learning
- Assumptions about Adult Learners
- Additional considerations
Lesson 4: Howard Gardener’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Lesson 5: The Learning Process
- The four basic steps of learning
Lesson 6: Your Approach to Learning as a Trainer
Lesson 7: Learning Styles Inventory
- Descriptions of Learning Styles
- Identifying Your Learning Style
- Interpretation of Learning Styles Inventory
Lesson 8: The Trainer Type Inventory
- Comparison of Trainer Types
Lesson 9: Developing Learning Objectives/Outcomes
- Tips for Writing Learning Outcomes
- A process for Developing Good Learning Outcomes
- SMARTER Learning Objectives
Lesson 10: Experiential Learning Cycle Design Model
Lesson 11: When is Training Necessary
Lesson 12: The Training Process
- The Learning Steps
- Defining Training Needs
- Plan the Training
Lesson 13: Training Methods
- Comparison of methods
- Setting the climate
Lesson 14: Teaching Employees their Job: Facilitating and Correcting Errors
- Stimulating a readiness to learn
- On-the-job training
- The four step plan
Lesson 15: Characteristics of a Trainer
Lesson 16: Problem Participants
Lesson 17: Visual Aids
- Using visual aids
- Training techniques
Lesson 18: Presentation Skills
- The delivery
- Using non-verbal communication
- Notes and index cards
- Q&A