Today's complex and rapidly changing work environment demands the maximum utilization of a company's number one resource — people. Today, effective organizational leaders are capitalizing on this resource to help bring about change and to streamline work processes. As companies move to flatter organizational structures, they depend on teams, individuals and work groups to increase productivity to maximize results.

The Employee Development University's Train-the-Trainer Program is designed to help people to bridge that gap. The Program is designed to help the participant to sharpen his or her skills to become an effective coach, a facilitator or a team leader. Various learning activities are carefully incorporated in the curriculum to give participants the opportunity to enhance their communication skills and to improve their personal and professional effectiveness as facilitators.

Components of this 40-hour Program include:

• Facilitation — learning the basics of being a facilitator versus an instructor.
• Communications — gaining insight into one's communication style as a facilitator and learning what impact it may have on others.
• Adult Learning — reviewing the principles of how adults learn.
• Classroom Management — discussing principles of classroom management to maximize learning.
• Curriculum Development — understanding the basic framework for course design that constitutes the process for curriculum instruction and curriculum development.

Research has shown that comprehension and retention increase dramatically when a variety of learning techniques are used in a training program. Adults need to discuss problems, discover solutions, and practice skills in order to maximize comprehension and retention. This Program utilizes a variety of instructional methods designed to facilitate a better understanding of the nature of training. The following instructional methods are incorporated throughout the Program to help participants to demonstrate learning outcomes:

	Panel Discussions		Team Facilitation		Demonstrations		Mini-lectures
	Role Playing		Ice Breaker Exercises		Video-based Training		Games & Simulations

Participants are videotaped throughout the program as they make presentations and role-play various activities. The curriculum is designed to give participants hands-on training in writing learning objectives. By the end of the last session, participants identify their topics for developing their modules. Each participant is assigned a coach to help in the development of the module. Thirty days following the program, participants are asked to demonstrate competencies on key concepts of the Train-the-Trainer program. This is a written examination proctored by the Corporate Dean. In addition, participants are given six months to complete a module and present a 15-minute segment of the module to a group of peers. This presentation is videotaped and critiqued by the facilitator, a group of peers and the Corporate Dean.

The Employee Development University, Train-the-Trainer Program is a true commitment to our vision of Empowering People to Learn, Change and Grow!