Planning a One-Day Train-the-Trainer Program: What Topics and Activities Should Be Included?

MK1271955
Hello, kindly list the topics to be covered during a one-day train-the-trainer program and also activities during the session.

Thanks in advance.

Regards, Dr. Muralikrishna
Dinesh Divekar
You could have given a little more information. In what context have you raised this query? Who would be the prospective trainers? What is their background? What kind of training are you looking for, technical or non-technical? Have they already been trained on presentation skills? How frequently will they conduct the training and at what level? What would be the background of their trainees or learners? Have you conducted any survey on the psychology of the trainees who will be trained by these trainers?

The Importance of Comprehensive Training

How can anyone do a program like "Train The Trainer" (TTT) in just a day? Though training is far more than presentations, these very skills are the soul of training skills. To be a trainer, one must invest at least 2 days in building presentation skills. Then comes the discussion on the topics of TTT and some practice exercises. Therefore, an ideal TTT should last anything between 3-5 days.

In 2001, while working for FedEx, I did my Instructional and Presentation Skills (ISP) course. Four days were reserved just for mastering presentation skills. The actual delivery of training topics came much later. But then these MNCs are MNCs because they invest heavily in their human assets and reap benefits as well.

Reconsidering the TTT Approach

If you do some web search, you may get course contents for TTT. However, I recommend you revisit your idea of TTT itself. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" goes the famous phrase. But then this little knowledge is inversely proportional to the damage that it does. Have you taken into account these invisible losses?

Thanks,

Dinesh V Divekar
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