Developing Effective Training

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Detailed Overview/Outline

This two-day interactive workshop provides less experienced trainers with an overview of the training process and shows them how to make each element yield effective learning results. Participants, through team and individual application of the techniques presented, will learn:

• the components of the training process and their relationships to one another
• the elements of good training design
• how to ensure training has a positive impact

Key Topics

• The role of training and development in the organization
• Building credibility and support
• Needs assessment methods and tools
• -- Using needs assessment to build credibility and support for training with management
• -- The benefits of needs assessment for the organization, managers, learners, and training development professionals
• -- Selecting the appropriate needs assessment tool
• Learning principles and process
• -- The components of learning systems: instructor, learner, materials, activities, and environment
• -- Adult learning principles
• -- The universal learning process
• The fundamentals of good design
• -- Using sound project management techniques
• -- Identifying design resources
• -- Creating design specifications
• -- Developing learning objectives
• -- Matching learning objectives to learning methods
• Creating useful training materials
• Key implementation issues: what they are and what to do about them
• Increasing the usefulness of training evaluations
• Transferring knowledge back to the job
• -- Case study practice
• -- Exercises using your organization's training projects

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
New trainers or trainers with less than three years' hands-on experience or those who have not had a formal course in training development; training managers without a training background.

Sponsor Background:

• Over 50 years ago, Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations was formed to provide training to employers to improve workplaces and workplace life.
• Cornell workshops have a reputation for being current in subject theory and application as well as on legal or regulatory issues.
• Classes are highly interactive…between student and instructor and student to student.
• Discussion groups, case studies, role plays, and other exercises provide practice for your learning.
• Your instructors are skilled communicators and experienced professionals committed to providing the finest in real world, practical education.
• The majority of our clients are repeat users…a testimony to the quality and value received.

Substitution and Cancellation Policy

Substitutions of registrants can be made at any time. Cancellations and transfers are subject to a 25% charge unless received in writing one week prior to the program. Registrants who do not cancel in writing prior to the program date and who do not attend are responsible for the entire fee.

Instructor(s):
Nancy Lampen

Instructor Background:
Nancy Lampen, Director, Human Resources and Management Development Programs, Cornell University-ILR, Rochester. She designs, teaches, and manages programs in the areas of interpersonal and organizational communications, crisis communication, and train-the-trainer. Formerly, she was a professor of communications and was selected for Who's Who in America's Teachers, 1998 Edition.

Past Participants Include:
Past Participants in All Cornell Workshops Include

• AIG
• American Express
• AT&T
• Becton-Dickinson & Co.
• Bell Atlantic
• BMG
• Boeing
• Chase Manhattan Bank
• Citicorp
• Coca-Cola
• Corning Glass
• Estee Lauder
• General Motors
• Girl Scouts of America
• GTE
• IBM
• Johnson & Johnson
• Lucent
• Merck
• Mobil
• MTV
• NEC America
• New York City Criminal Justice Agency
• New York State Dept. of Labor
• Tiffany & Co.
• Time Warner
• UNICEF
• United States Postal Service
• United Technologies
• Xerox

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