The First-Time Trainer: A Step-by-Step Quick Guide for Managers, Supervisors, and New Training Professionals

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Be Prepared

Key Principles of Preparation

Before delving deeper into this phase, it will be helpful to keep in

mind a few key principles while developing training:

1. Proceed as if you are going to deliver the training, even if some-

one else is to do it. There’s no surer way to make certain it’s com-

plete and will work well. (If this approach doesn’t work, approach

it as if your boss were going to deliver it.)

2. Keep the eight steps to effective training in mind at all times.

3. Always think in terms of variety (multimodality and multigener-

ational learners), and implement the concept wherever possible.

4. From time to time, review the adult learning principles outlined

in Step Two.

5. Make the trai ...