Train the trainer

Goals

• Understand learning mechanisms and their impact on choosing learnings methods
• Be proficient in communication techniques, when handling a group of people
• Learn how to build a training session from scratch
• Learn how to facilitate a training session to reach the objectives

Target audience

Anyone in a position to train or hand over knowledge, expertise within the company and beyond

Prerequisite

None

Contents

Trainer’s responsibility

• Training in the company
• Challenge, impact and relevance of the training
• Training and motivation
• Trainer’s duties and responsibilities

Preparing the training session

• Training organisation
• Training theme and content
• Identify the prerequisites (company and participants)
• Definition of educational objectives and the different pedagogic methods (knowledge, expertise, soft-skills)
• Pedagogical progression

Speech handling

• Beginning the training session
• Managing training time
• The chronology to follow for the different topics
• Which methods to involve people? Which communication frame to set up?
• Assessment of training session

Facilitate the training session

• Trainer’s role and behavior
• Verbal and non-verbal communication (articulation, speech rate, gesture and motion…).
• Introduction to directiveness and non-directiveness rules when talking: how to have the good balance
• Facilitating styles’ typology
• Group management
• Rules for living and group life peculiarities, handling of speeches and troublesome participants
• The different participant profiles
• Teaching aid
• Educational illustrations to better spread the message
• Teaching aids: which tool to use, when, how to make the most of it?