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

Youtube video

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 is an author, a sought-after speaker, and an experienced instructional designer who has been a passionate member of the learning and development field for more than two decades. His work has been published in TD magazine, and he was named a Top Young Trainer by Training Magazine in 2011. Brian is the author of two books: What’s Your Formula? Combine Learning Elements for Impactful Training and Instructional Design on a Shoestring.
He is the visionary behind Soapbox, our automated instructional design tool that creates instructor-led training programs in under 10 minutes.
Over his career, Brian has designed and facilitated numerous training programs for a wide range of organizations, including a global training program for a Fortune 500 company and a global train-the-trainer program for Management Sciences for Health.
Brian holds an MA in Organizational Development from Antioch University.
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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