Creating a train-the-trainer lesson plan in 7 minutes

In today's blog post, I share a short video of exactly how I used Soapbox (an online tool) to create a train the trainer lesson plan in minutes.

Last week I wrote a bit about Soapbox, which is an online tool that can be used to create training and skill-building lesson plans in just a few minutes. Today, I’m going to show exactly what it looks like to create a lesson plan in just a few minutes (and later in this post, you can download a digital copy of the final lesson plan).

First, here is a video that will walk you through how I developed a complete lesson outline for this train-the-trainer session in under 7 minutes.

Outside of what you see in the video, I spent about 15 or 20 additional minutes working through the specific talking points and content for each activity. Below is a screen shot of a portion of the final lesson plan (which was also generating instantly via Soapbox) and you can download a copy of the train the trainer lesson plan.

Soapbox Lesson Plan Sample Page

Want to see just how quickly you might be able to generate your own lesson plans? Soapbox offers a 2-week free trial so you can play around with it and see if it might save you some time.

Brian Washburn

Brian has over 25 years of experience in Learning & Development including the last 7 as CEO of Endurance Learning.

Brian is always available to chat about learning & development and to talk about whether Endurance Learning can be your training team’s “extra set of hands”.

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