How To Become An Effective Trainer

The need for skilled trainers continues to grow as the world's workforce meets the challenges of changing technology and information. Acquiring new knowledge and skills is critical to your job success and ongoing professional development. Good trainers are able to communicate the knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate for employees to carry out their jobs effectively and to communicate them in a positive and motivational way.

The trainer must have the ability to put across information in an easily understood way. This often creates a feeling of anxiety in the occasional trainer when faced with delivering a training session: he will have to stand up in front of a group and speak. And he will have to make sure that all of the learners can follow their arguments and fully understand the subject.
 

Our workshop is as equally effective with people who have never trained as it is as a refresher for existing trainers. It focuses on building the communication, presentation and training skills required to accelerate the learners' learning process, so they willingly apply the workshop's ideas. For individuals who give frequent presentations, teach or sell ideas, this workshop is also useful.

This is a pragmatic and interactive course, in which participants learn both the theory and practice of successful training.
Where can you find good people to employ as trainers in your training department? One effective way to solve your problem is to develop your own. By increasing the effectiveness of their in-house trainers, employers enhance the capability of their employees, so that organizational goals are more likely to be achieved.

Objectives

In this Seminary You Will:

• Develop and fulfill training objectives.
• Develop training plans.
• Effectively define goals and organize ideas to build clarity in your training.
• Pace your sessions and get the timing right.
• Choose and implement appropriate learning methods.
• Get the best out of role-play exercises.
• Handle “difficult” participants.
• Be flexible enough to adapt your training style to the changes in the mood and in the learning motivation of the trainees.
• Have the tools to deliver training more effectively.
• Maintain poise and confidence in front of a group.
• Make your training interesting and motivating.
• Use verbal, non verbal and symbolic communications to engage others.
• Be able to assess trainees' progress.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the training provided. 
• Impart information effectively.

In This Seminary Participants will Learn:

• An Overview of the various types of conferences, seminars, workshops, and other training programs, and the purpose of each one.
• How to determine the timing, contents, and training style of each training program.
• Who should give each training (a manager, a non-manager, some other employee, an outsider, one or many trainers, etc...)?
• Which type of participants (working in the same department, in many departments, from many companies, etc...) should take part in each training program?
• Which type of information and how much of it is needed on the background and personality of each trainee for optimising the success of each type of training program?
• Which type of training is usually the most effective?
• Optimal profile of the trainer (s) for that type of training.
• How to determine the duration and time schedule of a training program?
• How to organize the sessions (e.g. finding an equilibrium between the trainer’s speech, trainees’ participations, case studies, role playing, etc....)?
• Interactive training: what are its deep meaning, its implications, and its utility?
• Timing and modus operandi of the use of examples from the business world and the non-business world, and of the use of humor.
• Specific examples from the business and non-business world that can be commonly used in many types of training.
• Which tools does the effective trainer need?
• In general, (and this is a key issue), how can a trainer constantly maintain the concentration and motivation of the participants during the training session?

Training strategy

• Duration of the training: 40 hours.
• Maximum number of participants in any training group: 12.
• The training style will always be extremely interactive.
• 40 to 60% of the duration of the sessions of any training topic will be used in exercises and/or role plays (in many of our training sessions, we will tape role plays performed by trainees on a digital camera and we will then show them during the session for detailed comments; we would also show speeches by world-leading trainers and lecturers or we would show scenes of films and comment them or do team work on them).
• The language NBTS trainers will use will always be easy-to-understand Arabic and / or easy-to-understand English (but we can also train in French).
• A detailed guideline for each training topic shall be distributed at the end of the sessions. The guideline shall be distributed in CD format.
• Certificates of attendance for each participant shall be distributed at the end of the sessions.