Train the Trainer

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Train The Trainer

• Vital Smarts India

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Train the Trainer program sharpens your skills as
a trainer, in determining the needs of the
audience, handling hecklers, and bringing about
dramatic improvement in your professional
appeal.   Globalization has led to not just an
increase in opportunities, but also an increase
in competition and pace, and challenges. Business
houses that wish to survive the industry odds and
want to successfully battle the cut-throat
competition and challenges have realized that
they should not underestimate the importance of
corporate training programs for their
organizations, thereby unleashing a new era of
learning interventions through innovative
learning techniques, advanced experiential
learning methods and compelling new concepts that
evolve through changing business scenarios.
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Corporate training has expanded into many areas,
including, but not limited to management and
leadership, accounting and finance, personal
development, human resource management, sales and
marketing, customer service, and English
language. Organizations investing in these
learning areas experience managerial
effectiveness, better customer satisfaction, and
high retention of employees and clients. Hence
there is a substantial increase in demand for
well-certified trainers.
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  How do you fast-track your career as a
trainer?   Trainers who are currently working in
learning and development teams and would like to
expand their horizons by moving from technical or
process training to behavioral training are
looking for a train the trainer course that can
help them understand the similarities and
differences and thereby step into new
frontiers.   Not only is it important to learn
new skills and techniques, but also necessary to
validate skills so it is easy to gain the trust
of the employer and thereby fast track your
career, hence the need for a good Train the
trainer certification.   How to become a
successful trainer?   It is assumed that one has
to have been an expert at a specific area to then
become a subject matter expert and thereafter a
trainer. While this is true to a great extent, it
is also true that a trainer is a facilitator who
helps learners realize, derive, and arrive at
their learning. Along with being an absolute
expert, the trainer also needs to be adept at
human behavior, adult learning principles,
creative learning techniques, instructional
design, and several other such subjects to become
a good facilitator. Any good train the trainer
program caters to these subjects.
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Train the trainer certification in India is more
and more in demand and the programs currently
available do not exactly cater to the need
comprehensively. Most train the trainer programs
teach principles of facilitation, content
creation, etc. but none of them prepare the
learner for the specific subjects that they will
be facilitating. To train the trainer, one needs
to be a stalwart in the world of facilitation
themselves.   Conclusion With the cutthroat
competition in the current business environment,
any organization must have excellent trainers who
can train and mentor the workforce to increase
productivity and thereby the bottom line of the
business. Train the trainer program carves out
the best of trainers to suit the business needs.