Delivering High Impact Training Classes
Equally important, participants will prepare and deliver numerous practice presentations while receiving coaching feedback from an award-winning instructor with over 20 years of classroom delivery experience. The class is very hands on: participants create and deliver numerous presentations.
Delivering High Impact Training
Course Overview
This course enables organizational trainers to vastly improve their ability to deliver meaningful learning sessions. This course examines both the classic learning theories that have guided the work of effective educators as well as the very recent discoveries on how the brain receives, processes, stores, and retrieves information.
Course Outline
- Lesson 1: Educational Theory
- Adult Motivation
- Andragogy Adult Experience
- Time Horizons
- Subject vs. Problem Orientation
- Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy Knowledge
- Comprehension
- Application
- Analysis
- Synthesis
- Evaluation
- Bloom’s Affective Taxonomy Receiving
- Responding
- Valuing
- Organizing
- Internalizing
- Kirkpatrick’s Levels of Evaluation Affective
- Performance
- Summative
- Return on Investment
- Societal Benefit
- Behaviorism in the Classroom Classic Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning:
- Punishment, Reinforcement, Shaping
- Reinforcement Schedules and Extinction
- Kolb’s Learning Styles Concrete Experience
- Observation
- Analysis
- Experimentation
- Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
- Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners
- Lesson 2: Slide Presentations and Handouts: Content, Media
- Determine and Design Content and Media Text/bullets
- Compare/Contrast
- Tables
- Graphics: Flowcharts, Diagrams, Photos, Hand Drawing, Others
- Sound Clips
- Movies
- Quotes
- Animations
- Slide Transitions: Use and Overuse
- One Idea Per Slide
- Visual Clichés
- Presentation Duration and Slide Count
- Lesson 3: Class Preparation
- Instructor’s Prepping Systems and Best Practices
- Rehearsal
- Prepping Exercises
- Pre-assessing Learner Characteristics Methods Ask, Polling, Surveys. Electronic Means, Contact Person
- Lesson 4: Delivery
- Venue Particulars Seating
- Lighting
- Audiovisual Particulars
- Tell, Teach, Tell – An Integrated Model for Presentations Overview and Benefits
- Framing the Learning Experience
- Delivery incorporating the Logical and the Affective
- Summarizing and Reflection
- Challenging Learners Misplaced, Apprehensive, Late, Slow, Experts, Frustrated
- Beginning and Ending Class Desirable and Undesirable Techniques
- Fear of Public Speaking
- Start Strong and Confident
- Pitch, Tone, Inflection
- Body Language
- Authenticity
- Building Trust
- The Critical Nature of Engagement
- Q&A
- Lesson 5: Evaluation
- Course Evaluations Benefits
- Ethical Concerns of Course Evaluation
- Lesson 6: Brain-Based Learning
- Brain Basics
- Neuroplasticity
- The Triune Brain
- Learning and Memory
- Stress and Learning
- The Role of Emotions in Learning
Intended Audience
The class is very hands on: participants create and deliver numerous presentations.
Prerequisites
Some degree of experience with presenting information helpful, but not required.
Follow-On Courses
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Sample training request letter
Subject: Request for Leadership & Professional Development training from Applied Technology Academy
[Decision Maker Name],
I'm writing to request time and budget approval to complete Applied Technology Academy's course, Delivering High Impact Training Classes. The information below outlines how this training benefits our organization, the tasks I'll be able to perform after completing it, and relevant cost and funding details.
Course Description
Equally important, participants will prepare and deliver numerous practice presentations while receiving coaching feedback from an award-winning instructor with over 20 years of classroom delivery experience. The class is very hands on: participants create and deliver numerous presentations. Applied Technology Academy is an award-winning, SBA-certified woman-owned training provider (est. 2008) whose instructors are active practitioners; the course is hands-on with virtual labs and a learn-by-doing methodology.
Course Objectives
Once I've completed the course, I'll have hands-on, job-ready skills in leadership & professional development that I can apply immediately to our work.
Expected Organizational Benefits
After completing this course, I will be better equipped to apply these skills directly to our projects, reduce our reliance on outside expertise, strengthen our team's capabilities, and share what I learn with colleagues.
Expected Cost & Funding
Course fee: [request an itemized quote at the link below]. Applied Technology Academy supports multiple funding paths that may reduce or cover this cost: GSA MAS purchasing and government purchase orders, military credentialing funding (Army CA, AF COOL, CG COOL), VA GI Bill and VR&E, ATA Flexible Spending, and student financing. Private team cohorts are available if colleagues should attend with me.
Conclusion
This training provides practical, hands-on experience I can apply immediately to strengthen our work in leadership & professional development. Additional course information is available at https://appliedtechnologyacademy.com/leadership-development-training/delivering-high-impact-training-classes/.
Thank you for your consideration,
[Your Name]
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