HOW TO DESIGN EFFECTIVE TRAINING PROGRAMS

TWO DAY WORKSHOP

Fairfield Inn

2697 Lake Vista Drive · Lewisville, Texas 75067

9 AM - 5 PM each day; registration opens at 8:30 AM each morning

If your current or future duties require you to design workshops and seminars, you need these two days of practical learning.  Whether you are the department head, senior trainer, course designer or instructor, this material will make your programs more alive and productive.

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Register early and save!  $1199/per person for the two day workshop if you register more than one month prior to the workshop; $1299/per person general registration.  Group discounts available for groups of 3 or more participants from the same organization.

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What You'll Learn

Several types of needs analysis are developed to help uncover real training needs in the organization.  Needs are translated into learning objectives.  How to select training methods, craft activities and evaluate training are strong components of this workshop that follows a traditional Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model.

Pre-workshop Assignment

Participants are encouraged to select a course they are designing or redesigning and bring learning objectives, content outline and any materials that have been developed.  This course will be used to practice the tools introduced in the course.

Workshop Content

• Review workshop content and objectives
• Inventory your design skills
• Set personal objectives for this session

Unit 1: The Design Process

• Sort training and non-training issues: Is training the answer?
• Partner with management
• Compare approaches to training design
• Apply adult learning principles and steps to guide design
• Review the three phases of design

Unit 2: Plan for Training

• Define what training can accomplish
• Assess training needs
• Evaluate guideles for developing needs assessment instruments: do's and don'ts
• Analyze special assessment issues
• Sort needs vs. wants using managmeent development analysis
• Decide what you need to know about learners to be effective
• Break down a task into teachable parts
• Write realistic instructional objectives
• Build a skills inventory
• Determine if prerequisites are necessary

Unit 3: Organize and Plan Materials Development

• Examine the anatomy of a module
• Select appropriate methods based on the learning objective
• Identify effective technical training methods for recall and application
• Sequence methods appropriately
• Provide sufficient practice to change behavior
• Pace methods to avoid boredom

Unit 4: Develop Materials to Meet Instructional Objectives

• Create 'discovery learning' in your activities
• Adopt, modify or create new learning experiences
• Examine tips for writing demonstrations with skill practice, case studies, information searches, interviews, games, role plays, self-assessments
• Use a comprehensive guide to develop activities and exercises

Unit 5: Learner Handout Materials and Lesson Plans

• Identify types of handout materials
• Determine how to develop programmed notes
• Use a fifteen-point checklist to develop complete handouts
• Craft effective job aids and checklists
• Create action plans to keep everyone on track
• Determine when to develop three types of lesson plans
• Write lesson plans for others to use easily
• Use a fifteen-point lesson plan checklist
• Ensure consistency across sessions

Unit 6: Evaluate the Results of Training

• Assess learner reaction and analyze trends
• Examine methods to test for learning
• Determine if new skills are used back on the job
• Use benefits to show bottom-line results

Methodology Resource Guide

Each participant receives a Methodology Resource Guide that is a template for designing training programs and contains all the tools, templates and checklists from the two day workshop.

Workshop Objectives

By the end of the workshop, the participant will be able to:

• Apply a systematic method to easily design a training program
• Design a training program to meet the learners' needs
• Describe how Performance Analysis can mean the difference between success and failure
• Improve productivity by knowing when and where training can contribute
• Use adult learning techniques to improve retention and reduce participant resistance
• Build learner retention
• Break down a task easily to identify prerequisites 
• Easily write realistic training objectives that meet three conditions
• Select the best learning experience to train learners
• Identify how much practice is needed to build a new skill
• Pace methods to maintain high energy and active learning by the participants
• Help learners discover and develop skills through appropriate activities and exercises
• Craft effective training materials, exercises and tests
• Use checklists for lesson plan, handout and test development
• Easily write lesson plans others can use
• Use four effective evaluation methods and state exactly how each works
• Use a unique inventory to select three types of lesson plans correctly
• Describe four effective evaulation methods and exactly how each works
• Identify how to measure bottom-line results of learning

What Past Participants Say:

"One of the only seminars I have attended that has surpassed my expectations."

"Presentation of specific techniques that are practical and useful."

"Different activites kept interest, excellent variety."

"I thought it was great.  Very helpful and informative - motivating."

"It gave me useful information for training my people."