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Web-Based Train-the-Trainer Program

Web-Based Train-the-Trainer Program

2023 Virtual Classroom Courses

Instructor-Led and Interactive

Instructor-Led and Interactive

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Online Instructor-Led Train-the-Trainer Courses

Virtual Classroom Training . Distance Learning Workshops

Learn a range of training design and delivery skills during one of our virtual train-the-trainer courses. Similar to our onsite train-the-trainer programs, these workshops will show you how to design and facilitate engaging training. We have programs for experienced trainers, people new to the field, and those at an intermediate level.

Our short courses last about two hours. Longer training workshops consist of two or more two-hour segments. To explore our existing catalog, click on the course overview links below. If you don’t find what you are looking for, get in touch. We frequently create new material to meet a client’s specific needs.

Online Instructor Led Train the Trainer Course

Train-the-Trainer Fundamentals

Teaching Fundamentals: Adult Learning and the Training Facilitator’s Many Hats

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Great training starts with a solid foundation. From applying adult learning principles to understanding the many hats successful trainers wear, this fundamentals course will begin to prepare anyone who teaches adults. For a customized and robust learning experience, pair this workshop with others in our virtual courses catalog.

Classroom Engagement Skills Course

Workshop Engagement Skills

Choreographing Success: Engagement Skills for Classroom Trainers

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

The content may be boring, dry, and dull, but that's no excuse for delivering a course that's blah, bland, or bad. Learn how to engage in the classroom during this online instructor-led training course. In this workshop, you will discover how to transform lecture-based into material that is participant centric, hands on, and something participants don't dread.

Training Design Skills Course

Training Design Fundamentals

Training Design Fundamentals: Laying a Solid Foundation

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Learn the fundamentals of training design during this online workshop. During this program, you will learn when training is a good answer and when it's not, how to write learning objectives, how to chunk content, and how to determine if your program has enough hands-on exercises and activities. This course works well on its own and as part of a train-the-trainer series.

Virtual Trainer Training

Virtual Training Delivery Skills

Mastering the Virtual Classroom: Skills for Delivering Effective Distance Learning

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Virtual training is different from traditional classroom delivery. The rhythm isn't quite the same, the distractions are often greater, and the training facilitator needs a deeper and wider bag of tricks to keep an online group engaged. This program focuses exclusively on the skills trainers working virtually need to keep participants learning and actively participating online.

Classroom Management-Skills Training

Classroom Management Skills

Dynamic Delivery: Confidence and Control in the Classroom

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Generating buy-in, appearing confident and in control, and managing participants are just some of the skills you will learn in this online train-the-trainer course. The program is instructor led and designed for anyone who wants to learn subtle techniques for working with adults in a classroom setting. This course can stand on its own, or you can group it with others to create a tailored train-the-trainer series.

Adapting-Off-the-Shelf-Content-Training

Customizing Off-the-Shelf Content

From Blah to Brilliant: Techniques for Sourcing, Modifying, and Energizing Off-the-Shelf Content

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Learn how to create and customize training from procedures, policies, user manuals, and off-the-shelf libraries during this online train-the-trainer workshop. This course can stand alone, you can combine it with others in this directory for a more comprehensive training experience.

Training Activity Design Webinar

Training Activity Design

Serious Play: Using Toys, Games, and Activities in Participant-Focused Training

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Effective training courses are typically interactive training courses that engage participants' heads and hands. This web-based program reviews a range of tools, tips, and tricks instructional designers can use to make their workshops active. The session addresses such topics as when to use activities and games, the importance of movement, why manipulatives are often more effective than lists, creative ways to use words, and techniques for incorporating traditional or repurposed games into a curriculum.

Brain Science and Accelerated Learning Webinar

Accelerated Learning and Brain Science

Brain Science Basics: Tactics for Transforming Training to Leverage How People Learn

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Learning is not a passive activity, but unfortunately, a great deal of material exists that assumes the opposite. This course explores the idea of active learning and how the brain best absorbs and retains information. During the program, participants will learn the basics of brain science in adult learning, accelerated learning principles, and specific actions they can take to organize information for better retention.

Presentation Design and Delivery Skills Webinar

Web-Based Training in Adobe Connect

The Virtual Virtuoso: Designing and Leading Dynamic Web-Based Training

Format: Virtual Classroom Course

Designing training for web-based delivery has challenges specific to the virtual classroom. This course addresses best practices for creating interactive web-based training. The program covers basic principles of adult learning, techniques for reducing multitasking, tactics for engaging learners and encouraging participation, tips for selecting the right content, ideas for creating engaging activities, and resources for finding strong graphics.

Moving Traditional Content to the Virtual Classroom

Converting In-Person Training to Virtual Delivery

Transform!: Converting In-Person Training Programs and Presentations to the Virtual World

Format: Multi-Session Virtual Classroom Course

"The program was great in the classroom. Online? I just don't see how we can pull it off." While it's true that not every topic or classroom activity lends itself to the virtual classroom, there are steps presenters and training facilitators can take to communicate the essence of their offline programs in a virtual environment. This workshop introduces a host of tools and techniques to transform materials so they work in a virtual format. Participants should be prepared to share their existing materials and to apply the concepts discussed to them.

Instructor-Led Adobe Connect Training

Adobe Connect

Perfect Pods: Creating Engaging Meeting and Learning Experiences with Adobe Connect

Format: Multi-Session Virtual Classroom Course

When used to its full capabilities, Adobe Connect can offer learners and meeting participants a rich, robust, and interactive learning or collaboration experience. The trick is knowing how when and how to use everything this premium product has to offer. This in-depth and interactive three-part course is for anyone who wants to learn the ins and outs of the platform from someone who regularly designs and produces interactive meetings and training sessions.

On-the-Job Train-the-Trainer Webinar

Training Skills for On-the-Job Trainers

The Successful One-on-One Trainer: Skills for Effective Knowledge Transfer on the Job

Format: Multi-Session Virtual Classroom Course

This virtual train-the-trainer course for on-the-job trainers covers the fundamentals anyone training someone else one on one should know. The three-part program addresses adult learning, skills for breaking processes into manageable steps, the hats on-the-job trainers wear, interpersonal skills, learner engagement, training plants, learner proficiency, and troubleshooting skills.

Train the Trainer for Non-Trainers Online Course

Training Skills for Non-Trainers

The Inadvertent Trainer: Training Skills Who Unexpectedly Find Themselves Responsible for Teaching Others

Format: Multi-Session Virtual Classroom Course

This three-part, instructor-led, online workshop is designed to quickly upskill people with no formal training background. During this fast-paced course, we will cover the nuts and bolts of adult learning, introduce several practical frameworks, and discuss tactics for facilitating training efficiently.

“I wanted to thank you again for the chat training. This was essential to our new chat initiative moving forward, and we hope to see some substantial increases in our customer satisfaction scores in the upcoming new year.”

Brad B., IT Manager, Major US Bank’s IT Service Desk Manager

“My director just called me and said whatever discussions you and Stefanie had made this training focused, interesting, fun, and valuable – she’s already getting additional feedback on the team (they love the interactivity). She already wants me to work with you and Chris on something else. And she’s not an easy push….so thank you, thank you!”

Leo S., Training and Development, HHS

“I have never attended D&I training before and didn’t know what to expect. This exceeded my expectations. It wasn’t boring. It was timely and relevant. D&I can be a sensitive topic with some and I felt like the approach here brought people along with being judgmental or condemning anyone.”

Training Participant, ICBA

“Charles’ presentation style is so engaging that I felt like he was speaking to me! Thanks for making what could be a dry topic a fun session!”

Training Participant, Data Driven Storytelling (Virtual)

“Our customer service manager of 21 years stated that this training was the best and the most relevant class she attended in her career.”

Simon B., R.E. Carroll Inc.

“This course provided everything you would need to hold a successful chat.”

Chat Webinar Participant, Port Authority of Allegheny County

“Yesterday’s workshop was both thoroughly enjoyable and tremendously beneficial. From all accounts, it was a productive, engaging, and substantive experience from which participants were able to glean significant professional insights and lessons for best practices in their field.”

Hugh H., Director of Program Development, Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Inc.

“Thank you. This was the first course I’ve had virtually that truly maxed the technology to solicit audience participation. Thanks for teaching by doing!”

Training Participant, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

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