Making Training Interesting and Relevant

"A must for every trainer as they ‘don't know what they don't know’! A truly collaborate experience! What I have learned has given me new confidence, which I did not have when training people before. Thank you very much."
Claire Winder, Occupational Therapist

In 3 days you will cover a great deal

Many staff are required to run training sessions for their colleagues or for clients. Amazingly, for such a costly, high-level and difficult task, it is often the case that very little training is provided for such professionals.

Using lessons acquired by APT over 23 years, this course aims to remedy the situation. There is a significant amount of lecture input on this course, but, importantly, there is also a large amount of practical work. This provides opportunities for course delegates to put theory into practice by training the knowledge and skill they will later be required to.

Who should attend?

Everyone who is up to providing training for other professionals.

The aims of the course

The aim of the course is simple: by the end of the course we aim for you to know a lot about training and be good at doing it. This is a very kind course, but even so don't come on it if you're not prepared to stand up and try it out!

Learning Objectives: What you cover to achieve the aims

• What is training
  • The different learning styles preferred by different people.
  • Different levels of knowledge
  • Different ways of acquiring knowledge,
  • Devising a training package.
  • The nature of skill.
  • Training skill: you cannot acquire a skill by being lectured about it.
• Deciding on your aims and objectives.
  • Who should choose the objectives? (Answer: the course leader, but why?)
• Please prepare a presentation on a topic of your choice, but with the following constraints: … " Well, you can't learn to drive without getting in the car.
• How to best 'put yourself across'. There is a clear answer to this, but not one you expect.
• Designing a training package
  • Lectures, a conference, a course, training sessions, and workbooks,
  • Matching methods to objectives
  • Visual aids: the pros and cons of 'PowerPoint', OHP and acetates, flip charts, video material, video recorder.
  • How many presenters: one, two, or more?
  • Inviting outside speakers
  • The two key factors that a training package must fulfil, and how we know.
• Conducting yourself and controlling the group (never out of fashion, these concepts still trip people up):
  • Timekeeping, swearing, dodgy jokes, politics and religions, alcohol and kindness.
  • What to do if things go wrong. For example…
  • Questions and answers.
• Finale afternoon: quiz and group presentations

See our Training Planner for more information.

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