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Develop Your Skills as a Workplace Trainer
Your expertise becomes more valuable when participants can make it their own. Structure your sessions, select appropriate methods and facilitate exchanges that support learning. Strengthen your approach as a trainer to support progress and assess learning.
- Duration
- 2 days 14 hours
- Code
- PINF003FR Code
Presentation
Imagine you need to learn to play football. Would you prefer to be coached by Senegalese international footballer Sadio Mané or Hervé Renard, a French player who became a coach? This question highlights an important point: mastering, practising and excelling at a sport does not mean knowing how to coach a player.
Similarly, becoming a professional trainer cannot be improvised. Success requires specific skills, knowledge, methods, attitudes and tools. Together, these create the right conditions to help participants learn effectively and put what they have learned into practice.
This introductory train-the-trainer course familiarises you with these concepts and gives you opportunities to apply them. You will not learn to coach football, but you will discover how to become an effective trainer who can communicate expertise clearly and support learning.
Objectives
By the end of this train-the-trainer course, you will be able to:
- Use learning processes and methods to train adults and develop a teaching approach.
- Prepare and launch a training course effectively.
- Apply basic techniques to facilitate a training programme.
- Develop conventional and unconventional approaches as a trainer.
- Master the process of closing a training course.
Program
1. Understand adult learning principles
- The conditions that support adult learning.
- The 4 stages of learning.
- Different ways of acquiring knowledge.
- Visual, auditory and kinaesthetic channels for perceiving information.
2. Prepare your training delivery
- Become familiar with your training resources.
- Logistical, intellectual and mental preparation.
- Prepare training materials.
- Apply the 10 preparation rules on the day, before participants arrive.
3. Start your course effectively
- The 6-step protocol for opening a training course.
- Rules for an effective introduction.
- The agreement with participants.
- Implement a professional and interpersonal process that supports effective learning.
4. Use fundamental training facilitation techniques
- Select techniques suited to the group and objectives.
- Deliver a dynamic, interactive presentation.
- Facilitate role plays, case studies, small-group work, individual exercises and other activities.
- Adopt appropriate teaching methods, both conventional and unconventional.
- Activate group dynamics.
- Use learning tools: whiteboards, projectors, video, documentation and more.
5. Strengthen your key behaviours as a trainer
- Open a new sequence actively.
- Master questioning techniques.
- Practise active listening and reformulation to support learning.
- Conduct debriefings and provide feedback.
- Summarise effectively in practice.
- Manage time well during training.
6. Manage challenging situations during training
- Identify and address objections.
- Identify and manage different participant types: argumentative, indifferent, passive, disruptive and others.
7. Close a course in a way that motivates action
- The 7 steps for closing a training course.
- The importance of checking that objectives have been achieved.
- Establish an individual development agreement or personalised action plan.
- Conduct oral and written evaluations.
- End the course on a positive, motivating note.
Audience
This course is intended for:
- Professionals who deliver training occasionally or regularly, including managers, employees, technicians and subject-matter experts.
- Independent consultants, coaches and trainers seeking new skills and a broader service offering.
- Learning content creators who want to develop training delivery skills.
- People changing careers and seeking a rewarding new profession.
Prerequisites
No specific professional experience is required, but public speaking ability is essential.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Practical exercises
- Case study
Course highlights
A participatory, practical course featuring case studies, realistic scenarios, self-assessment of learner and trainer styles, and the KAHOOT game-based learning tool.
Dates and sessions
Choose the date and delivery format that suit you.
No upcoming sessions are currently available.