In our workshops, you will learn to map out exactly what people should be able to DO back on the job after a given training.
You'll practice creating learning activities that mimic real-world context, and work out alternatives to the infamous “Death by PowerPoint” lecture.
Not only will you leave with a considerable tool box for designing your next learning event, you will know why the techniques work and when to use them.
Better yet, next time people take training you have designed -- what they learned will stick.
Design Exceptional Learning Events
Take Aways
- Action Mapping model for identifying learning objectives and real-world activities
- Consulting guidelines for establishing why the training is needed in the first place
- Checklists to help you write practical objectives and organize your materials
- Learning strategies from brain research and how to apply them
- Tips for managing room set-up -- and for trouble shooting when you can’t control it
- Guidelines for using PowerPoint effectively -- and when not to use it
- Specific alternatives to traditional lecture
- Dozens of tips and tools for creating dynamic, performance-focused learning events for adult participants
- Learning evaluation tool
- Instructions to join our Accidental Trainer Online Peer Forum, to share tools, best practices and stories of success with new techniques of presentation, facilitation and evaluation
Who Should Attend?
- Subject Matter Experts who help create training for others.
- Trainers with little or no formal design experience.
- Presenters who want to improve their effectiveness with audiences.
- Facilitators who want to improve the outcomes of their work with groups.
- Experienced trainers who want to improve the results of their learning events.
- Instructional design professionals interested in new ideas, tools and techniques to enhance their work.
- Supervisors or managers responsible for training.
- Human Resource professionals involved in design and delivery of training.
- Human Resource professionals who coordinate learning events.
Public workshops of “Accidental Trainer: Design Exceptional Learning” are one-day sessions
