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Train-the-Trainer Boot Camp - Public Workshop

Train the Trainer Boot Camp

Our Train the Trainer workshops are considered the professional standard in training programs based on over 100,000 attendees who are dramatically improving the design and delivery of their training programs in addition to peer and trade magazine reviews.

  • Watch retention rates soar to 90% or more with our special review and memory techniques.
  • Acquire proven techniques and processes to design and deliver training in 25% less time.
  • Learn how to shrewdly use participant buy-in, accountability and personal action plans to help ensure transfer to the job with measurable results.
  • Get the interaction dynamics of a small group (5–7 members) even in sessions with several hundred attendees.
  • Appeal to all adult learning styles.
  • The most exciting, rewarding and immediately useful training “boot camp” you will ever attend!

2-Day Agenda

1. Effective Training Opener: The Key to Success

• Why an effective opening is critical
• Getting people mentally and physically in the room
• The difference between openers and icebreakers
• Why icebreakers should NEVER be used
• 3 Tests of an effective opener
• 4 powerful openers – and how to get 50 others

2. Effective Training Closers: Important for the Future

• Why trainers almost NEVER close, but should
• One thing trainers do that NEVER should be done at the end of a program
• Why one of the LAST things done in a program should be done almost FIRST
• Three tests of an effective close
• 3 powerful closes – and how to get 30 others

3. Retention and Learning: What It’s all About

• How to apply current research on learning
• The Presentation – Training – Facilitation continuum
• Instructor-led, participant-centered training
• Pike's 5 Laws of Adult Learning
• Memory and learning – 7 things you need to know

4. Needs Assessment: Doing the Right Thing

• Making sure you deliver the right answer
• How to satisfy three key groups with your design and delivery
• Applying the KILI formulas to more sound design and transfer

5. Learner Motivation: Without it They are Lost

• How to keep them learning after you've stopped teaching
• Basic definitions
• Five ways motivation gets killed
• Eleven ways to motivate adults to apply and transfer what they've learned

6. Developing Learning Objectives

• The Four Domains of Learning
• Setting SMART objectives

7. Choosing Instructional Methods: No One Answer
• Tapping the power of Pike's Instructional Design Grid
• Applying the Involvement Continuum
• Using the Seven Learning Objectives
• Nine considerations of the learning environment and how they impact your design/delivery
• Thirty-six alternatives to lecture

8. Designing a High-Impact Lesson Approach

• Eight dynamic attention getters/energizers that will keep your participants focused and learning
• Seven powerful transitions that increase audience buy-in and participation
• Seven powerful ways to revisit and reinforce content

9. Lesson Development: Getting it Right the First Time (Almost)

• Applying the 90/20/8 Rule
• How to use mind mapping to reduce development time 25–50%
• “Chunking” your content using the CPR method
• The three stages of a learner's safety cycle
• Looking at a sample day

10. Lesson Application

• The two radio stations all participants listen to and how to get them to tune in to your content
• Structuring action plans – Making sure they put it all to work
• Creating a 30-60-90 day action/accountability plan

11. Preparing the Learning Environment: Don't Overlook This

• Pre- and post-preparation and debriefing
• Three key considerations for any room arrangement
• Four characteristics of an ideal training room and what to do when the room is less than ideal

12. Classroom Management: Creating an Environment
       Where Learning Takes Place

• Physical room arrangement
• Having participants set their own standards and norms (Hint: they will be much tougher than yours)
• Dealing with difficult participants

13. How to “CTTize” Your Existing Training: 6 Critical Steps for Increasing the Impact of Your Current Content

• Applying the CPR process
• How to prioritize your content: need to know, nice to know, where to go
• Using the 90/20/8 rule
• Applying the C.O.R.E. elements to your content
• Developing transfer strategies
• Creating your evaluation process

14. Applying the CTT Approach to “Specific Situations”:
        It's Still the Same, But…

• Computer training
• Technical training
• E-Learning


Day 1 Hours: 
           8:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Day 2 Hours: 
          8:00 – 3:30 p.m.


"I retained more from the Train the Trainer Boot Camp than from any other workshop I've ever attended."

Regina Sisco
Lockheed Martin, Space Systems

"The Bob Pike's Train the Trainer Boot Camp was exceptional.  I often refer back to the course material to help design and facilitate classes that get participants more engaged.  The instructor was always supportive and best of all, modeled the concepts so we could see what the right behaviors and skills looked like.  I thought this was one of the best classes I have attended on facilitation skills and I have already recommended it to 2 co-workers."

Crystal Zunker
RadioShack, Organizational Development

"The class was more than I expected (and unlike any other class I have ever been to). And the trainer...well, she was an amazing facilitator."

Ken Brown, Training Manager
Mitsubishi Electric, HVAC Advanced Products Division

 “This was a great experience. I learned so much and will remember what I learned!”

Jennifer Koonce, Sales Trainer
Hallmark Cards

“The seminar content is excellent. This is a tremendous program!”

Beth Burns, Human Resources
Boston College

“The seminar was outstanding, motivating and full of new information.”

Debbie Sauldsberry, Management
Trainer, NYC Housing Authority

“Thank you for superb facilitation of the CTT workshop...one of the highest ratings I have experienced in our company in over 28 years of training.”

William W. Crawford, Jr., Learning & Development Manager
The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies

“The workshops that the Bob Pike Group has presented have exceeded our expectations. Their philosophy of participant-centered instruction has begun to permeate the safety and health training done by our consultants for Ohio employers.”

Marty Grant, Ph.D.
OH Division of Safety & Hygiene


Train-the-Trainer Workshop Registration

Train-the-Trainer Workshop Dates and Locations

If you would like to bring this program in-house to make a powerful difference in how training is delivered in your organization, use our online contact form or call 1-800-383-9210. We are eager to learn more about your training needs and discuss how we can provide solutions.


 
 
Tuition: $1,295
 


 
This workshop qualifies for the Training Delivery Certificate.

Upcoming
Train-the-Trainer Workshops


8/20/2008 8:30 AM:
Bob Pike's Train The Trainer Boot Camp Seattle, WA 8/20-21, 2008

Seattle, WA

8/21/2008 8:30 AM:
Bob Pike's Train the Trainer Boot Camp Atlanta, GA 8/21-22, 2008

Atlanta, GA

8/25/2008 8:30 AM:
Bob Pike's Train The Trainer Boot Camp Baltimore 8/25-26, 2008

Baltimore, MD

9/4/2008 8:30 AM:
Bob Pike's Train The Trainer Boot Camp Sacramento, CA 9/4-5, 2008

Sacramento, CA

9/10/2008 8:30 AM:
Presentation Skills Dallas, TX 9/10-12, 2008

Dallas, TX

9/15/2008 8:30 AM:
Bob Pike's Train The Trainer Boot Camp Dallas, TX 9/15-16, 2008

Dallas, TX

9/18/2008 8:30 AM:
Bob Pike's Train The Trainer Boot Camp Chicago, IL 9/18-19, 2008

Chicago, IL

9/28/2008 1:00 PM:
Presentation Skills ( Pre-Conference) Minneapolis, MN 9/28-30, 2008

Minneapolis, MN

9/28/2008 1:00 PM:
Pre-Conference Instructional Design for Participant-Centered Training Minneapolis, MN 9/28-9/30, 2008

Minneapolis, MN

9/29/2008 8:30 AM:
Bob Pike's Train The Trainer Boot Camp (Pre-Conference) Minneapolis 9/29-30, 2008

Minneapolis, MN


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