Accidental Trainer
Our accidental trainer workshop will show you how to make dry content interesting, capture your audience’s attention and keep students engaged and interested during your training sessions.
This seminar is divided into three sessions and will cover all three basics of exceptional learning events: Design, Facilitation, and Evaluation.
Design
- Learn to map out exactly what people should be able to DO back on the job after a given training.
- Practice creating learning activities that mimic real-world context, and work out alternatives to the typical PowerPoint lecture.
- You will leave with a considerable tool box for designing your next learning event and you will know why the techniques work and when to use them.
Take Aways
- Action Mapping model for identifying learning objectives and real-world activities
- Consulting guidelines for establishing why the training is needed in the first place
- Checklists to help you write practical objectives and organize your materials
- Learning strategies from brain research and how to apply them
- Tips for managing room set-up -- and for trouble shooting when you can’t control it
- Guidelines for using PowerPoint effectively -- and when not to use it
- Specific alternatives to traditional lecture
- Dozens of tips and tools for creating dynamic, performance-focused learning events for adult participants
- Learning evaluation tool
- Instructions to join our Accidental Trainer Online Peer Forum, to share tools, best practices and stories of success with new techniques of presentation, facilitation and evaluation
Facilitation
- Experience more than 100 facilitation techniques that you can immediately apply to your own learning events.
- Practice using what you learn, receiving both instructor and peer feedback in a highly structured format designed to boost confidence and expertise.
- Learn how to adapt when the training you’re asked to do is the typical PowerPoint lecture and you have little leeway in how you present it.
- Practice “mining the gold in the room” to facilitate learning among participants, and help participants -- even the challenging ones -- own their own learning.
- Hands-on experience by bringing content from the training you already do so you can make adjustments you can use the very next time you deliver it.
Take Aways
- 20 Activities to Bind Your Audience
- 25 Activities to Break the Ice!
- Facilitator Tips to Eliminate Butterflies
- Debrief Like a Pro
- Challenging Behaviors Requiring Special Care
- Instructions to join Accidental Trainer Online Peer Forum sharing tools, best practices and stories of success with new techniques of presentation, facilitation and evaluation
Evaluation
- Learn how to gather feedback at every stage of creating and delivering a learning event. You'll apply simple to complex evaluation tools and techniques to determine satisfaction, learning, behavior change, and ultimate benefit to the organization.
Take Aways
- How to Develop Research Survey Questions
- Simple to Complex Evaluation Tools
- Instructions to join Accidental Trainer Online Peer Forum sharing tools, best practices and stories of success with new techniques of presentation, facilitation and evaluation
Who Should Attend?
- Subject Matter Experts who help create training for others.
- Trainers with little or no formal design experience.
- Presenters who want to improve their effectiveness with audiences.
- Facilitators who want to improve the outcomes of their work with groups.
- Experienced trainers who want to improve the results of their learning events.
- Instructional design professionals interested in new ideas, tools and techniques to enhance their work.
- Supervisors or managers responsible for training.
- Human Resource professionals involved in design and delivery of training.
- Human Resource professionals who coordinate learning events.
Seminar Details:
When: Spring 2011
Times: Two full days from 8:00 am - 4:30 pm and one half day from 8:00 am - 12 noon. Exact dates and times coming.
Where: St. Cloud State University - Welcome Center
Coborn Plaza - 355 5th Ave. S.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
Pending Approval by HRCI - Up to 17 HRCI recertification credits
Instructor Bio
Workshop Flyer (PDF)
Registration information coming
For more information please contact Tammy at tammy@scsutraining.com.
