Instructor-Led Training (ILT) / Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)

PowerPoint can be a very powerful visual aid and important tool for training… if it’s done well. Creating a better PowerPoint Slide Deck is about organizing your thoughts before you even open PowerPoint on your computer.

An effective job aid might be able to replace the need for actually training someone. At the very least, it can be distributed as part of a training to help people remember a rule or how to do something new. Drawing inspiration from “job aids” we see every day when we walk around can make our job designing effective job aids easier.

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.

Wondering what makes for an effective train-the-trainer program? The Learning Guild just released a 29-page report to shed some light on the topic.

Are you just looking for a few resources, activity ideas and templates to help design your next training program. Here’s a “crash course” for you!

From before your presentation begins to just before you wrap up a training program, here are 5 strategies you can use to get your participants to actively engage with your content (whether they want to or not!).