More Bang for Your Buck

Will you be joining us for our annual training conference in Minneapolis September 24-26? Maximize your travel dollars and increase your creative training "fluency" by adding one of our six pre-conference workshops to your plate.

Before our conference officially begins on Wednesday, September 24, 2014, we have six different pre-conference workshops that will get your ramped up before the conference begins. If you register for both the conference and a pre-conference workshop, you'll also save an additional $200 off the cost of the workshop.

The six offerings this year are:

Train-the-Trainer Boot Camp

Increase content retention up to 90% more than lecture-only format, reduce design and training time by 25% and increase transfer of skills learned back to the job by 75%. Get the interaction dynamics of s small group, even in sessions with several hundred attendees with Bob Pike's Creative Training Techniques. After three decades of honing our participant-centered method, we’ve streamlined a training approach that you or any other trainer can easily apply to your courses. Our participant-centered approach is successful because it focuses on the needs of learners. With our interactive facilitation, we engage participants, involving them in the learning experience. Through this process, participants take ownership of their learning and quickly discover on-the-job applications for their training. Now that you know why our method works, come and experience how it works.

The Creative Training Techniques Edge

You’re a seasoned and accomplished trainer, but even the best trainers are always looking for ways to sharpen their skills. We’re introducing the next level of Creative Training Techniques for training consultants, instructional designers and continuing education providers looking to deepen their training knowledge and depth.

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Build successful social media tools that relate to your students and content

• Use new linking techniques to increase retention and improve quality of training

• Apply new presentation strategies to your own content during the session

• Scale your training based on the learning styles in your classroom

Instructional Design for Participant-Centered Training

Dig deeper into workshop design concepts introduced in Boot Camp and apply them to your content! Apply the eight-step design process to create a training course from nothing or to enhance an existing program.  Broaden your needs assessment, evaluation, and transfer skills. Adapt, adopt and apply this proven design process during this workshop which empowers you to repeat and create instructor-led, participant-centered courses.

Participant-Centered Presentation Skills

Are you transitioning from subject matter expert to trainer? This workshop focuses on the basics of adult learning, body language and delivery style with many chances to practice. Use this knowledge to communicate more effectively, with better results. You will also have the opportunity to practice what you’ve learned and take away a video of you adapting, adopting and applying participant-centered strategies.

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Deliver a strong and engaging message

• Select effective openers, closers and energizers

• Outline and develop dynamic content

• Better manage any audience

• Analyze the use of props and analogies in your presentations

Virtual Instructor-Led Training Lab

VILT Lab is designed as a hands-on application course for learners as they take their own content and follow a step-by-step process to create a virtual training that is engaging. This two-day course is filled with "Aha!" moments as you apply our process to your content. By the end of the program, you will be able to create a one-hour instructor-led, participant-centered webinar!

Coaching for Success

The impact of training will be up to 87% more effective when coaching is added, yet most supervisors and managers have had little or no training in effective coaching. Effective coaching helps to correct poor performance and redirect negative behaviors. In this two-day workshop, your supervisors and managers will learn the strategies and skills needed to effectively coach.

For more information on these pre-conferences or our annual conference, check out our brochure or give us a call at 800-383-9210.