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Damilka Rojas, Design manager at 24Slides, gives us expert input on the right design approach for effective training presentations: If you like such scribble style, see the complete All Scribble Symbols Bundle, withover 250 handwrittenhand-drawnsymbolsand shapes. Use visual design elements like images, diagrams, charts, etc., to help illustrate your points and engage your trainees. Discuss how they can keep supporting each other in their development path after this course is over.

Long, scattered over weeks: (10-20 days, usually one day per week ~ 80-160 learning hours): If you don’t have an opportunity for a live intense train the trainer event, then a course format with recurring weekly training days can be a great option to cover all your needs for your first train the trainer course. Having a week of time between each (set of) course days gives an opportunity for extra assignments and ‘homework’ activities so trainees can practice and prepare for each session. This is particularly useful if you have a diverse group of trainees who won’t need to work as a team later on but want to learn much of the advanced content of a train the trainer course.If you are a trainer or facilitator, you should already be reasonably comfortable with presenting, understand the need to practice, and know that you need to learn your material. If you want to take things to the next level though, find someone – a peer, a professional, or a video camera and your own insight – to critique your presentation delivery. First, let’s start with the length of the event. 7 days? That sounds like a lot of time to ask of both participants and the organisation. And funding such an initiative is a big commitment. This is a very practical session where trainees are presented with the variety of different training modules they might use in a training session, such as agenda review, collecting expectations, group discussions, coffee breaks, etc. Discuss each item briefly, and share best practices on how to calculate and manage timing during training design and delivery. The only exception is the main exercise which can be left as a placeholder at this point since the next session is about Exercise Design. The Most Common Elements of a Training Agenda

There are plenty of visual aids that can help with a training presentation. Obviously good old-fashioned whiteboards can work well. So can videos. So can physical objects used as props. Every training course needs a proper framing, and it is no different with a train the trainer event. This is the right moment to present the agenda and discuss the expectations you have of your trainees. Make sure also to discuss the expectations the trainees themselves have of the course. This is just the beginning of their journey as a trainer, and now it is time to point out the various development opportunities they will have in your organisation.It is important to ensure that activities in a training session are designed in a way that allows each learner to engage with the content in the style that suits them best. Roundtable or sitting in a circle encourages discussion and underlines equality of all participants.

As a trainer, you will frequently have the responsibility of standing in front of the room and presenting material. The amount of time you spend presenting theory as a trainer may vary largely on the types of training sessions you will run. But in any case, it is important to have solid presentation skills to be able to introduce concepts and theories in an understandable, structured way. Aside from starting this session with group dynamics theory, the lesson should be tailored to the group’s needs. For example, you may decide to deliver a sharing and reflection session so participants can reflect on their own group development supported by elements of group dynamics theory. This session will focus on teaching the fundamentals of how to arrange the classroom to facilitate an interactive learning experience. If your participants sit in a theater-style arrangement during a whole session, sooner or later you will hear snoring sounds. Likewise, if you only switch between plenary discussion and individual work, your participants might get bored of the monotony. That is why your trainees should be aware of the most frequently-used methods to facilitate interaction within a group: Auditory learners make the most out of synchronous training because they learn by hearing and discussing ideas. However, you can also adapt your PowerPoint materials to them. Think about adding audio files or linking to podcasts that further expand the main topic. Another great way to appeal to aural or auditory learners is using a conversational style in your slides, so they can read your PPT as if you were talking directly to them.Adding a little animation when you change learning presentation slides can make your presentation more interesting for the audience. These are key principles that should always be kept in mind when designing training sessions, so getting these clarified early in the training program gives a useful reference point. One of the most essential skills for any trainer is to know how to structure and build a training session to be engaging and effective.