1. Top Ten Tips for Trainers
Richard Faint’s
Top Ten Tips for Trainers

2. Background Get more from less
Managers become trainers and facilitators
Outcomes owned by the participants
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3. 1 – Build Confidence
3 C’s
Content
Context
Clarity
Visualisation
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4. 2 – Train or Facilitate? Inputs vs outputs What do you do?
What do they do?
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5. 3 – Identify the ‘meat’ Core activity = success
Consider ‘energy curve’
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6. 4 - Use your voice
Warm it up
Use dynamics
Warm your lips!
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7. 5 – Opening Presentation
Provides focal point
Use visualisation eg
Three balloons
Blue = Intro
Red = Success
Green = linkage/ice breaker
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8. 6 – ‘Getting buy in’ Icebreaker
Use pairs
Expectations?
Flip chart responses
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9. 7 – Use stories (and details)
Pictures = emotion
Stories = connection
Details = credibility
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10. 8 – Running the session Inputs go faster Groups go slower
Avoid ‘timewasters’
Plan breaks
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11. 9 - Connect
Use people’s names
Share experiences
Use their words
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12. 10 - Endings Allow time for plans Identify ‘early wins’
Use ‘rising threes’
Use ‘You... I... You’
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13. Thank you!

14. Activity
Identify three methods or things that you could introduce/work on to make a training session more effective
Change groups
Review and create two or three more that are not on your list
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