The Process of Training

	Types of jobs - easy and tough;
	Training's aims - higher and lower;
	The five main competencies of a professional trainer;
	A trainer's study skills

	Business skills;
	Self Development;
	Materials Production;
	Workshop Organisation;
	Workplace Visiting

Contracts, Administrative Support, The Venue, Materials & Equipment

[A six point checklist]

	You gotta have a dream (Aims and Objectives)
	How you gonna make the dream come true? (Contents, Methods and Assessment)

Aims, Objectives, Content, Methods and Materials, Monitoring and Evaluation

	Attention span and variety
	Changing the social arrangements
	Three types of action
	Eighteen categories of activity

Methods - help students to better understand what they already know v help the students to acquire new knowledge, skills and attitudes.

Interactive Mind Mapping - (click HERE for details)

brainstorming, categorising, linking

Colloquia (sharing through discussion)  (click HERE for details)

	The outputs from an effective Colloquium
	Discussion rather than Debate
	Variation on the Colloquium Process
	Guided Self Discovery
	Facilitated Self Discovery

A Toobox of Thinking Skills (click HERE for details)

	Tell it to your Granny
	Write a script for two people discussing the topic
	State the History of the Topic
	Use Lateral Thinking
	Draw a Mindmap
	Check your Logic
	Straighten the Crooked Thinking

The Social Dimensions of thinking

	Learning Styles - Strokes for Folks
	Group Types and Group Dynamics - Belbin's Types
	Bouncing Ideas - Six Thinking Hats
	Effective meetings – Chair, secretary, reporter

The Use of Handouts

	Purposes, Types and Designs
	Prewritten notes – Overhead transparencies, flip charts etc
	Interactive – fill the blanks, guided note taking
	Questionnaires and quizzes
	Checklists

	Predetermined objectives and unexpected outcomes
	Workshop Monitoring and Evaluation Techniques - some options
	How SVQ does it

	Support/facilitation/counselling v appraisal/assessment/evaluation
	SPUR & GROW Overview   Workshop Organisation  Methods and Materials  Monitoring and Evaluation  Workplace Visiting  Appendices

	A Good Thinker's Toolbox
	Lateral and Vertical Thinking
	Techniques of Lateral Thinking
	De Bono's Six Thinking Hats Overview  Workshop Organisation  Methods and Materials  Monitoring and Evaluation  Workplace Visiting  Appendices