Training Magazine - July 2008 - (Page TMI3)

• Establish and maintain a positive learning environment. • Use your voice effectively. • Capture and maintain learner interest in a live session and encourage participation. • Test for understanding during presentation. • Apply questioning skills to promote interaction and learning. • Apply listening skills and provide constructive feedback orally and in writing. • Plan how to make effective use of facilitator notes. • Support asynchronous activities. • Facilitate group communication. • Recognize and resolve learner behavior problems. This certificate is designed for both individuals who deliver training online and those who manage e-learning programs. You are required to bring your own laptop to access online exercises and demos, examples and illustrations. You will also use your laptop for hands-on activities to apply ideas learned. • Use a variety of “interactive lecture” formats to liven up even the most technical, “dry,” or complex information. • Apply brain research that dramatically increases learners’ attention, involvement, and retention. • Design training with the 4 Cs of Accelerated Learning— four steps that are based on the way people naturally learn, not the way they were made to learn. • Boost long-term retention of important concepts with 6 important memory tools, and with exciting opening and closing activities that engage learners from the moment they walk into the room. • Identify 4 general learning styles or preferences, and “style-stretch” to meet the needs of each type of learner. • Lessen the time it takes to design, develop, and facilitate effective training that works for the learners. • Form your own “mastermind group” to continue sharing best practices with each other after the certificate program is over. This certificate is designed for trainers with all levels of experience, instructional designers and facilitators, and anyone interested in Accelerated Learning and who trains, teaches, or facilitates learning. • • • • • Develop internal consulting skills. Diagnose problems within your organization. Formulate an action plan. Build partnerships with management and learners. Understand the trainer, manager, and learner roles in the transfer of learning. • Cost justify training. This certificate is designed for training managers, training coordinators, and “departments-of-one” who run a training function for an organization or business unit, or those interested in joining their ranks. As part of this session, you’ll receive the Training Manager’s Tool Kit, which contains a Training Department Benchmarking Tool, 100point Classroom Instructor Skills Inventory, and a Performance Improvement Plan Template. TMI7 Instructional Developer Certificate: Applying ISD Methodology PAUL SWAN Senior Instructional Designer, Darryl L. Sink & Associates, Inc. The Instructional Developer certificate focuses on the practical aspects of developing training and educational programs that will get the results you need, while providing an opportunity to apply what you learn directly to a project of your own. This certificate takes you through basic and advanced techniques for applying the Instructional Systems Development methodology, and helps you focus on a business problem or opportunity your training program is facing. Learn the techniques and skills necessary to develop professional training while meeting the challenges of today’s quality-driven business environment. You’ll learn to better: • Conduct Needs Assessment/Analysis: Selecting data gathering techniques. • Conduct Subject Matter Expert Analysis: Selecting and interviewing SMEs. • Implement Task Analysis: Analyzing task/content for structure and sequence. • Specify Learning Objectives: Writing performancebased objectives. • Develop and Select Learning Activities and Materials: Using a lesson design procedure, using criteria for selecting existing materials, developing instructional strategies for four different content types, selecting media, writing objective-based presentations. • Apply Levels of Evaluation: Developing plans for transfer and payoff evaluation, including ROI. This certificate is designed for training managers and supervisors, instructional designers and developers, trainers, and content experts. Some exposure to the development of training programs is helpful, but not required. TMI3 Training Coordinator Certificate: A Consulting Approach to Coordinating the Training Function TMI5 Technical Trainer Certificate: How to Design and Present Technical Training with Impact ELAINE SLONINA Senior Instructor, The Training Clinic Learn both design and presentation skills to make training "come to life" in a technical environment. In this threeday certificate, learn the basics of program design and development, climate setting, and techniques to increase participation and discussions. During this highly interactive certificate, you will teach a five-minute lesson to a partner and get feedback on your natural teaching style. You will also identify a future training topic for development during the program. Learn skills to help you better: • Apply adult learning principles to make technical training stick. • Plan for technical training and write realistic learning objectives. • Develop technical training methods and materials. • Practice techniques to effectively facilitate adult learning in a technical environment. This certificate is designed for the subject matter expert or instructor who develops and/or presents training. As part of this session, you’ll receive a resource tool kit to help you immediately implement the skills and knowledge learned during this certificate to design and present technical training. JOVIE MASTERS Senior Instructor, The Training Clinic Take a consulting approach to coordinate and administer training more efficiently and effectively. In this unique three-day certificate, learn how to develop a training plan, be active—not reactive, and maintain management support for training. This certificate explores how to hire consultants, coach and develop subject matter experts as trainers, set up a resource center, market and administer a registration system, and schedule training (along with facilities and materials coordination). Learn skills to help you better: • Clarify your role in your organization. • Transition to an internal consulting approach and partner with internal customers. • Diagnose problems within your organization and put together a proactive plan to address them. • Identify what good training looks like so you can be a wise consumer of training products and services. • More easily develop and maintain training resources. • Manage training enrollment, record keeping, and follow-up. • Create effective training schedules and administer facilities arrangements. This certificate is designed for training coordinators and administrators and instructors who coordinate a training function for an organization or business unit, or those interested in becoming more efficient and effective. As part of this session, you will receive the tools and skills necessary to be more proactive in your ability to meet and anticipate your organizations needs.’ TMI6 Training Manager Certificate: Managing the Training Function for BottomLine Results MARIA CHILCOTE Senior Instructor and Director, Client Development, The Training Clinic With the right practices, any training program can accelerate performance while delivering economic benefits. And, as a focused and practical manager of a training function, you can lead the charge within your own organization. In this certificate, you’ll focus on effective methods to manage the entire scope of your organization’s training effort. You will examine practical ways, sound techniques, and proven ideas to manage your organization’s training and yield tangible, bottom-line results. Learn skills to help you better: • Manage your training function. TMI8 E-Learning Designer Certificate RAY JIMENEZ Author, 3-Minute e-Learning, CEO and Chief Learning Architect, www.TrainingPayback.com For this certificate, learn the step-by-step process of designing and developing effective e-learning programs that help learners learn faster and at lower costs, including how to: • Design e-learning that counts – identify where, how, and when to design an e-learning program that matters to your organization and learners. • Construct lessons – learn a streamlined approach to transform your classroom training or new training programs into an e-learning format. • Engage and Involve learners – learn activities, exercises TMI4 Training Instructor Certificate: Accelerated Learning in the Classroom SHARON BOWMAN Author, The Ten-Minute Trainer Accelerated Learning strategies help turn passive listeners into active learners. This certificate program will give you the rationale, brain research, and proven training techniques that will enable you to keep learners engaged, motivated, and learning—even while covering dry, lengthy, or technical material. After actively participating in this certificate program, you will be able to: • Choose from more than 36 Accelerated Learning instructional strategies that you can use with any topic, any size group, and any age learner. Team Discounts are available for groups of 3 or more. Contact Training@nielsen.com or 703.488.2763 http://www.TrainingPayback.com

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Training Magazine - July 2008

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