Train the Trainer Advanced - Engaging your Learners & Accelerating Recall and Transfer

Reviewing Your Current Techniques

• Understanding the learning cycle
• Understanding the delegates’ expectations
• The importance of creating a positive and supportive learning environment
• Getting feedback on your current training style
• 'Priming' : how to excite and engage learners before training commences e.g. innovative joining instructions and pre-course work as well dressing the training room to intrigue delegates

Preparation and Set up

• Fail to prepare, prepare to fail – your essential checklist to ensure event success
• Setting learner states – how to get your delegates in the frame of mind to learn
• The learning environment – easy ways to get it right

Powerful Introductions

• Your personal brand and body language – video feedback session
• How to gain credibility from your audience
• Selecting and using appropriate icebreakers to relax delegates, break down barriers and encourage participation

Learning and Your Brain

• The learning cycle uncovered
• How do your learners’ brains like to learn? – analyse and understand the different ways we process information
• Developing 'brain friendly' learning techniques and activities
• Matching techniques and activities to learning styles

Accelerated Learning Techniques

• An exploration into the theory and application of the latest accelerated learning techniques to excite and engage all your learners
• Using multiple intelligences e.g. musical, numerical, visual and spatial to engage and help recall.
• Using recall techniques to aid transfer the learning e.g. acronyms, mnemonics, rhymes and metaphors.
• Cartooning: learn how to produce quick, colourful and engaging flipcharts to stimulate and motivate. Can’t draw? It doesn’t matter.
• An opportunity to practise stimulating creative learning activities including visualisation, jigsaw learning, storytelling, sociograms and debating.

Handling Difficult Situations

• What causes difficult behaviour in a training environment?
• The successful trainer’s handling guide for difficult participants – handy and practical tips to resolve issues
• Avoiding fatigue and the 'post lunch' dip
• What to do when you don’t know the answers

Reviewing and Applying Learning

• How the human memory works – short-term and long-term
• Twenty imaginative and practical ways to review and cement learning
• Transferring learning to the workplace using the Kirkpatrick model
• Measuring return on investment – an introduction to cost benefit analysis
• Closing the session – how to make it memorable

Personal Development

• Development of a specific action plan to adapt and use new skills and techniques