Here at Silicon Beach Training we’re immensely proud of the quality of training that we provide – and we love teaching other people how to deliver great training sessions too, via our Train the Trainer course.
Knowing your subject matter is only part of being able to deliver great training. Understanding how adults learn, engaging with them effectively, and planning your training session properly are all essential to ensuring that attendees understand and retain what you teach them.
In this video, filmed on one of our Train the Trainer courses – our trainer Mary guides delegates through the stages of planning and designing an effective training session.
We’ve summarised the video below with some great tips on how to plan your own session.
These are edited highlights of this section of our workshop. We cover a lot more besides on out 2-day train the trainer course here in Brighton, Sussex – so why not come along and hone your training technique?
Train the Trainer: Planning a 10 Minute Training Session – Top Tips
When you plan a training session, its not just about what subjects you’re going to cover when. A well planned training session will provide the following elements for each stage:
Content
Questioning Techniques
Activities
During our Train the Trainer course each delegate is asked to deliver and refine their own short training session. This is broadly broken down as follows:
The bad presentation given at the HighEdWeb Open and Connected Conference last week certainly made the headlines. My immediate response to the issue was ‘that’s a great lesson in how important it is to Know your Audience’. The feedback, traffic and mentions Twitter-heckled Key Note Speaker – Know your Audience! has attracted made me realise that from a Social Media perspective there are many more lessons to be learned. Those interested in building up their online presence using Social Media may be interested in our one day Social Networking Training course, or even our SEO Training course.
Here are some of the opinions expressed in the aftermath of the event.
Some people are pointing out that many of those writing about this event were not even there (including me – I’m in Brighton in the UK)
Some of those twittering real-time were not even in the room.
The conference as a whole was well received and that only an hour of the whole event hit the headlines, which is a shame for the organisers.
The main people who started the negative twittering were only a handful.
It has all been blown out of proportion by us bloggers.
Well yes, yes , yes, yes, yes and yes. But isn’t that what makes it all so interesting from a Social Media perspective?
The story is so interesting it got picked up immediately by those interested in Social Media
The extensive use of twitter allowed the story to be disseminated real-time and proved that if those who are well connected send out a message to others equally well connected it soon accelerates and is received by an incredible range at incredible speed.
The blog post I wrote about it has been linked to and visited more in the shortest amount of time than any other page I have written.
If your content is interesting, topical and current enough then the bigger influencers will use it and your reach will extend very fast.
One of the comments “conspiracy theory about the keynote: it’s a test of the power of the back channel; social experiment” might not be so far form the truth even if not intentional.
I have heard that someone twittered the poor guys number and he has bee receiving texts and calls about how bad he was – that is cruel and it is sad. Did he deserve it – I don’t think so, should he have been more prepared – definatetely.
Two days ago a Keynote speaker at the Social Media Conference “HighEdWeb 2009: Open. Connected” Showed how dangerous it can be to give a presentation without knowing your audience. Apparently he is not on Twitter and was talking about the effectiveness of Snail Mail Campaigns, and using not very good and outdated PowerPoint Slides. The organisation hosting the event seem social media savvy enough and encouraged attendees to use the tag #heweb09 to follow the back channel discussion.
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