Advanced Trainer Techniques

• Ways to better engage your audience.
• Strategies to build excitement into technical training.
• Ideas for integrating multiple training methods, including social media.
• Strategies for building meaningful content that meets adult learners’ needs.
• Insight on effective and suitable platform skills.

Length: One Day

• Better engage the audience from beginning to end.
• Use techniques other than PowerPoint in training sessions to capture interest.
• Identify ways to involve participants more in their own learning and to take ownership of their learning.
• Build successful social media tools that relate to the content.
• Build presentation strategies that can immediately energize course content.
• Avoid common trainer and course design pitfalls.
• Clearly communicate content in a way that audiences will remember and apply.
• List several effective techniques for handling questions and difficult audiences.
• Identify effective platform skills, including vocal variety and body language.

Who Should Attend? This advanced course is meant for seasoned safety trainers with at least 6 years of classroom training and instructional design experience. The seminar is meant for trainers who have attended the National Safety Council’s 4-day “Safety Training Methods” course, the OSHA 500 or 501, or other equivalent train-the-trainer course.

Location: This course will be held at the Minnesota Safety Council Resource Center located at 474 Concordia Avenue in St. Paul. Take the Dale Street exit from I-94. Proceed east on south frontage road (Concordia Avenue) past the American Lung Association. Turn right into our lower level parking lot.

Lodging: Holiday Inn St. Paul Downtown, 175 West 7th Street in St. Paul. Reservations can be made directly by calling 651.225.1515 or booking online, single or double occupancy. Please make reservations directly with the hotel and be sure to identify yourself as a participant in a Minnesota Safety Council training course to receive the preferred rate.

Cancellation Policy: Pre-registration and payment are required. Hopefully you won't need to cancel, but if you do, please do so at least three business days prior to the course for a full refund. No refunds will be made after three business days prior to the course. This policy will be enforced, so please plan ahead if you need to cancel your attendance.

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