Everyone loves a good template! There's no 'best' format to use, but here are word copies of the styles I've used for Course Outlines, Session Plans and Workbooks. The Course Outline should give a 1-page snapshot of what your course is about and what it will cover. It's an 'at-a-glance' overview that you can give...
Last week, on our family holiday in Centre Parcs, we did the high ropes course (complete with a zip wire over the lake to finish!). I don't consider myself a particularly brave person, but I'm pretty fearless on these courses, because I KNOW I'm safe. Not all of the obstacles are easy. Some of them...
It's risky asking other trainers to deliver on your behalf or employing associates: How can they even come close to delivering as well as you do?
Take the guess work out of it and make it easy for them by designing your training in detail
Having a clear outline to work to really helps to keep your training design on track. It's always perfect for getting stakeholder approval before you get started on detailed design AND is a very useful document to share with associates if you are outsourcing design. Here's a WORD document that you can use to create......
To many people detailed design is lots of slides – or at least slides with notes. Many L&D professionals don’t do further than creating what I would call an outline for their sessions. This is risky (and a missed opportunity) for all the reasons I quoted in the last blog. However, they may do this...
I’ve always written training in detail, because when I started in L&D I was part of a team and it was expected that that (with a few exceptions) all of us could deliver everything, and it needed to be consistent between people and over time. As my career moved on, I focused on design rather...
