Bob Pike's Train-the-Trainer Boot Camp

Complete Seminar Details

Developed by Bob Pike, America's premier "train-the-trainer" practitioner, this two day train-the-trainer seminar models techniques, tips, and tactics to facilitate instructor-led, participant-centered training. The program helps presenters and trainers to be more creative and effective in the classroom. The key focus is on helping you get even better results in your presentations.

Bob Pike is Editor-in-Chief of the influential Creative Training Techniques Newsletter also from the publishers of TRAINING magazine.

EXCLUSIVE 7-STEP COMPREHENSIVE TRAIN-THE-TRAINER PROGRAM:

• 1. Preparation: How to Get Raves and Results Even Before You Start Speaking
• Eight steps to effective preparation
• How to identify learner response using the KFD principle
• Choosing methods/manner of presentation
• Carry-over activities to enhance retention
• Tapping in to almost everyone's number one motivator

• 2. Presentation Strategies: What Do You Say After You've Opened Your Mouth?
• Audience assessment---using the KILI formula
• Designing effective opening
• Answering questions effectively---without getting sidetracked
• Time-tested patterns for organizing your presentation
• Six great attention-getting devices
• The "Ten Deadly Sins" that kill presentations

• 3. Learner Motivation: How to Make Sure Your Audience Keeps Learning After You've Finished Teaching
• Five ways to destroy motivation
• Eleven methods for motivating adults
• Use of competition---productive vs. dysfunctional
• Room set-ups that enhance participation
• Win/win strategies for dealing with problem attendees
• The 7 Laws of Learning

• 4. Developing Effective Manuals, Workbooks & Resource Materials: Making Sure Your People Have the "Right Stuff"
• How to make handouts as "important" as your presentation
• 3 significant benefits of resource material
• Effective use of partial transparencies
• 13 kinds of support material---what works best and why?
• Integration of resource material, handouts and manuals

• 5. Visual Aids: Maintaining Focus and Keeping Their Attention While You Talk
• Why audiovisual aids?
• Examples of how NOT to use audiovisuals
• Variety in your visuals---beyond overheads, slides, and flipcharts
• Refresher course in effective use of visual aids

• 6. Role Plays, Case Studies & Projects
• A model for structuring projects
• "Mind-mapping" ...what it is and how to use it
• Three-step preparation technique that cuts your design/development time by at least 50%
• Three non-threatening approaches to roleplays
• Secrets for getting the entire group involved
• Motivational use of "choice"

• 7. Making A Good Program Great: Special Touches
• Significant value-added program extras that cost next to nothing
• Some elegant alternatives to standard certificates
• Using your personal experiences for maximum impact
• "Special touches" ---what they are and why they're so important

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

• Human resource development personnel and organizational development personnel.
• Private sector suppliers and presenters of seminars, conferences and workshops.
• Public sector and armed forces training and development personnel.
• Trade group executives who present or organize programs and conferences.
• Continuing medical, health, engineering, legal, accounting, or other continuing professional education providers and trainers.

Sponsor Background:

Trainers are a tough audience to train. The involving train-the-trainers seminar you'll experience was created and fine-tuned by Bob Pike, who personally delivers training and keynote addresses over 150 days each year --- as he has for each of the last 20 years.

Pike has served on the National Board of Directors of the American Society for Training & Development and has been the top-ranked presenter at their last five national conferences. He has addressed dozens of regional meetings of the professions' leading association.

A prolific writer, Bob Pike is Editor-in-Chief of the monthly Creative Training Techniques Newsletter, author of The Creative Training Techniques Handbook, and a contributor to Personnel Administrator, Self-Development Journal, and TRAINING.

As a consultant, Bob Pike has assisted American Express, Shell Oil, PSE&G, Bally's Casino, Hewlett Packard, and many other leading companies. Mr. Pike has earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) honor from the National Speakers Association and in person alone he has shared his powerful message with over 100,000 people around the world.

You'll Learn More Because of Our Faculty

Bob Pike has personally selected, trained, observed, and coached your seminar leader through a two-year preparation process. One of the nine member faculty of Creative Training Techniques will conduct your seminar. They are very skilled facilitators to ensure your satisfaction. You'll find the faculty to be "professional's professionals" and the experience very energizing.

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