Course Content Overview: The following are topics that will be covered in this three-day workshop. This workshop will allow you to experience, analyze, and apply information that you learn through the objectives below.

 Needs Assessment:

• Uncover hidden sources of data and training needs
• Select the right assessment methods for the right purpose
• Avoid errors in the assessment process
• Discover why training is the sixth answer
• Isolate content into need to know, nice to know, and reference material
• Analyze data and match content to context in a meaningful design flow
• Explore the concept of non-repetitive redundant measures during assessments
• Analyze the nine time-tested approaches to needs assessment
• Examine your current priority setting, planning, and time analysis skills
• Distinguish facts and fibs about how adults like to learn

 Objectives and Evaluation:

• Decide your aim with three types of objectives
• Write a measurable objective with ease
• Choose from more than 150 verbs to create measurable objectives
• Design behavior-based job aids and checklists
• Ascertain how and when to test
• Use multiple methods for testing to reach visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners
• Unearth the guidelines of when to evaluate and to what level

 Instructor-Led, Participant-Centered Training Methods:

• Experience over 25 of 101 participant-centered methods you can use
• Distinguish strategies to keep training creative using variety
• Dramatically increase retention and transfer with interactive learning experiences
• Explore when and why to use blended learning
• Investigate when to use or lose one-way, two-way or three-way communication
• Analyze purpose, audience, and timing to select best media and delivery option

 Design Strategies:

• Avoid design mistakes that may sink your project
• Save time by using a repeatable design process
• Feed your learner using the EAT model
• Open your training session, don't just start
• Close your training session, don't just run out of time
• Anchor your key points with strategically placed energizers and revisiters
• Leverage diverse learning styles through personal awareness
• Match content to context whenever you can
• "Chunk" content into a well-paced flow
• Compare and contrast a participant guide with a leader guide
• Design handouts that are takeaways not throwaways
• Design PowerPoint^® presentations with impact

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