Management Programs

This two-day interactive workshop provides less-experienced trainers with an overview of the training process and shows them how to make each element yield effective learning results. Through team and individual application of the techniques presented, you will learn:

• The components of the training process and their relationship to each other
• The elements of good training design
• How to ensure training has a positive impact

Key Topics

• The role of training and development in the organization
• Building credibility and support
• Needs assessment methods and tools
• Using needs assessment to build credibility and support for training with management
• The benefits of needs assessment for the organization, managers, learners, and training development professionals
• Selecting the appropriate needs assessment tool
• Learning principles and process
• The components of learning systems: instructor, learner, materials, activities, and environment
• Adult learning principles
• The universal learning process
• The fundamentals of good design
• Using sound project management techniques
• Identifying design resources
• Creating design specifications
• Developing learning objectives
• Matching learning objectives to learning methods
• Creating useful training materials
• Key implementation issues: what they are and what to do about them
• Increasing the usefulness of training evaluations
• Transferring knowledge back to the job
• Case-study practice
• Exercises using your organization's training projects

Who Will Benefit

Trainers with less than three years of hands-on experience or those who have not had a formal course in training development; training managers without a training background