Compact training: Train-the-trainer

The concept

This compact, intensive and practical training week lays the foundation for your successful work as a trainer. You will acquire versatile mediation and methodological skills and benefit from the possibilities of a constant learning group and the compact time commitment: short, crisp, intensive.

After this training, you will be able to make your training courses, workshops, presentations and moderations more lively and interactive, and thus achieve your communication goals more effectively.

Didactic competence:

Basics of learning and training design

• How does learning work for adults?
• Fundamentals of neurological knowledge.
• What does "didactics, methodology and learning objectives" mean and why is it important?
• From the needs assessment to the training concept.
• Learning objectives, learning objective hierarchy.
• The training guide
• Creation of a concept.
• Planning design: Goal - content - methods - media.
• The initial, the story and the benefit for the participants - clarify relevance.
• Basic attitude as a trainer that promotes learning.

The training process

• Different phases of a training course and its methods.
• Different roles as a trainer during a training session.
• The HAUFE learning principle.
• Deepening content with the right method (Part 1).
• Methods for ensuring transfer and monitoring learning objectives during the training.

The training follow-up

• Reflection.
• Professional handling of feedback.

Methodological and media competence:

Interactive work with (learning) groups

• Working with groups - enabling insights.
• Basics of group dynamics.

Moderation techniques to activate groups

• Examples of "agile" and interactive workshop moderation.

Lively presentations and a variety of methods for presenting content

• Which method for which topic?
• Deepening content with the right method (Part 2).
• PowerPoint, Prezi and co. or would you prefer "museum and clothesline"?

Blended learning methods - webinars, how does "non-presence learning" work?

• Synchronous (e.g. Adobe Connect) and asynchronous methods (e.g. Blink.it, forum, emails).
• Basics of visualization with "live media".

Tools and exercises

Appearance and impact as a trainer:

The professional appearance - enticing people to learn

• Methodological imperative for trainer: "Don't be boring!"
• How is impact created?
• Special trainer- "targeted priming".
• "Touching" people without touching them.
• Body language and appearance.
• Didactic use of space and body language.
• Entertainment in training: Laughter as a learning turbo.
• Exercises with video feedback.

The first aid kit:

Mastering difficult seminar situations

• Prevention strategies in preparation and entry scenarios.
• What difficult situations could arise?
• From frequent speakers, co-trainers and superiors...!
• "It's no good anyway!" - Dealing with killer phrases.
• Self-fulfilling prophecy - it will come as we expect!
• Promising intervention options.
• Returns, feedback or "sometimes silence is golden"...
• Self-reflection and intervision.