Course Highlights
This adult learning and trainer fundamentals course will:
- Introduce best practices for encouraging meaningful participant note-taking.
- Emphasize the importance of granting “permission to pass” during training sessions.
- Identify what makes training experiences effective or ineffective from both the participants’ and facilitator’s perspectives.
- Explore adult learning principles and their influence on training design and delivery.
- Teach the ADULT model for honoring and engaging adult learners.
- Highlight strategies for acknowledging participants’ existing knowledge and demonstrating the relevance of training content.
- Discuss the many roles facilitators play to reduce risks, foster engagement, and manage time effectively.
- Show how the Training Sandwich framework can improve session structure and outcomes.
Course Overview
Facilitating adult learning requires a nuanced understanding of how adults learn and what motivates them. This program helps trainers explore the fundamental skills, principles, and frameworks that transform a good facilitator into a great one.
Participants begin by examining the key traits of effective and ineffective training, identifying the behaviors and techniques that contribute to memorable learning experiences. The session then introduces adult learning principles and their implications for designing and delivering training. Through the ADULT model, participants will learn practical approaches for honoring adult learners and ensuring content feels relevant and valuable.
The program also dives into the many hats facilitators wear, from reducing risks to increasing knowledge transfer and managing time. Trainers will learn to adapt their delivery to match the content and use the Training Sandwich framework to create well-structured sessions that engage and inspire.
By the end of the course, participants will have the skills to build engaging, participant-focused training sessions that deliver meaningful results.
Program Objectives
At this program’s conclusion, participants should be able to:
- Follow best practices for encouraging participants to take meaningful notes during training.
- Explain the importance of “permission to pass” during training sessions.
- Identify what makes training good or bad from both the participants’ and the facilitator’s points of view.
- Describe adult learning principles and how they should influence training.
- Apply the ADULT model for honoring and interacting with adult learners.
- Identify language that acknowledges what adults already know.
- Demonstrate the relevance and value of the learning content to adult learners.
- Discuss the many hats and actions trainers take to reduce risks, encourage engagement, increase knowledge transfer, and manage time.
- Explain how content can influence a session’s format.
- Explore the Training Sandwich and how a well-built one can mean the difference between training success or failure.
Program Modules
- What You Already Know: The Look and Sound of Good and Bad Training
- Stay on the Right Path: Taking Delivery Cues from Adult Learning Principles
- The Trainer’s Many Hats: Your Roles and Responsibilities
- Dissecting Content: Adapting Delivery to What You Have
- The Training Sandwich: A Simple Learning Ecosystem Framework
Target Audience
This virtual training program is for groups that want to:
- Build a strong foundation in adult learning principles and facilitation.
- Develop strategies to engage participants and tailor training to their needs.
- Learn frameworks for structuring sessions and managing training challenges effectively.
Suggested Format
- Two-Hour Virtual Training Course
Questions This Page Answers About Adult Learning and Facilitation Training
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- What principles and frameworks can enhance training design and delivery?
- How can trainers acknowledge participants’ prior knowledge and keep sessions relevant?