Train-the-Trainer Boot Camp: Overview
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2 day classroom $1,495
3 day classroom $1,795
Transform your training with learning skills that separate the extraordinary from the mediocre. Spend two action-packed days at Bob Pike's Train-the-Trainer Boot Camp learning how to:
- create powerful new openings for your training;
- cut your preparation time by 50 percent;
- use an eight-step process to transform your current courses into high impact learner-centered courses;
- apply the latest adult learning theories to your design and delivery;
- accelerate learning in special situations such as computer training and technical training; and
- create powerful new ways to demonstrate the results of your training.

- Apprentice trainers looking to develop and enhance participant-centered training skills
- Experienced trainers who want to improve the results of their training
- Subject Matter Experts who deliver training programs
- Private and public sector providers of seminars, conferences and workshops
- Continuing professional education providers and trainers
This is a workshop that:
- Illuminates the importance of effective opening and closing activities for increased effectiveness
- Shares techniques to create and manage an effective training environment
- Models Instructor-Led, Participant-Centered training
- Presents proven strategies to transform current training programs to include participant-centered techniques
As a participant in this workshop, you will:
- Recognize how to use C.O.R.E (Closers, Openers, Revisiters and Energizers) for participant-centered success
- Explain effective uses of C.O.R.E.
- Select specific C.O.R.E. to use first
- Experience how learner-centered engagement is superior to lecture-based instruction
- Recognize how to use media in a learner centered fashion
- Articulate how the different IL/PC models work
- Examine the eight steps to the design process
- Identify methods to prevent difficult behavior
- Identify ways to add variety to your training
- Explore teaching across multiple generations
You will leave the workshop with:
- The Creative Training Techniques Handbook, Third Edition, by Bob Pike
- The Train-the-Trainer Boot Camp Workbook
- Certificate of Boot Camp Attendance and Completion
- Training Action Plan
- Personal Learning Insight Profile
- Teaching Across the Generations Grid
Course Content Overview:
The following are topics that will be covered in this two-day workshop. This seminar will allow you to experience, analyze, and apply information that you learn through the modules below.
Module One: The Power of CORE
- Recognize how to use Closers, Openers, Revisiters, and Energizers for participant-centered success
- Explain effective uses of C.O.R.E.
- Select specific C.O.R.E. to use first
Module Two: Instructor-Led, Participant-Centered Training
- Experience how learner-centered engagement is superior to lecture-based instruction
- Recognize how to use media in a learner centered fashion
- Articulate how the different IL/PC models work
Module Three - Instructional Design
- Examine the eight steps to the design process
- Identify methods to prevent difficult behavior
- Identify ways to add variety to your training
- Explore teaching across multiple generations
Day 1:
8:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Day 2:
8:00 - 3:30 p.m.
8:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Day 2:
8:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Select Your Preferred Dates and Location:
- June 03 - 04, Sacramento, CA
- June 06 - 07, Atlanta, GA
- June 13 - 14, Washington, DC
- June 24 - 25, Dallas, TX
- June 27 - 28, Denver, CO
- July 08 - 09, Cincinnati, OH
- July 22 - 23, Lincoln, NE
- July 25 - 26, Charleston, SC
- July 25 - 26, Chicago, IL
- July 29 - 30, Seattle, WA
- August 05 - 06, Los Angeles, CA
- August 15 - 16, Philadelphia, PA
- August 19 - 20, St Louis, MO
- September 09 - 10, Minneapolis, MN
- September 19 - 20, Washington, DC
- September 23 - 24, Columbus, OH
- September 23 - 24, Boston, MA
- September 26 - 27, Dallas, TX
- October 03 - 04, Philadelphia, PA
- October 10 - 11, Charleston, SC
- October 17 - 18, Des Moines, IA
- October 17 - 18, Portland, OR
- October 21 - 22, Chicago, IL
- November 12 - 13, Huntsville, AL
- November 13 - 14, Phoenix, AZ
- November 18 - 19, Orlando, FL
- November 18 - 19, Kansas City, MO
- November 21 - 22, Atlanta, GA
- December 05 - 06, San Diego, CA
- December 05 - 06, Miami, FL
- December 09 - 10, Dallas, TX
- December 12 - 13, Washington, DC

