Training Design

Executive Summary

This report offers an analysis of training design I will use to train trainees on the how to use presentation skills effectively. It is a report that elucidates ways and methods I will use in my training to ensure that trainees get a clear view of these skills and use them in different occasions when delivering a presentation. Additionally, the report acknowledges the necessity of planning because it is a crucial step that helps to enhance efficacy of training.

Planning will enable me to employ effective methods to successfully complete the training. The report as a matter of fact offers a clear review of training design for quality and good presentation skills. It also endeavors to focus on the significance of availing regulations and rules that every trainee in the session should adhere to ensure that they behave in a responsible manner throughout the training period.

The report also highlights objectives of the training in regards to what is expected of trainees at the end of the program. Gathering apparently will not be successful if trainees fail to acknowledge and realize the significance of the training. The report also points out different presentation skills while offering an explaining of each and in intensely for proper understanding.

Additionally, the report offers a clear analysis of different training methods, their contents, when and how they can be best used in different presentation occasion. It also concludes with a restatement of subject matter as well as recap of main points captured in the discussion.

Training Design for Presentation Skills

Introduction

In a quest to present information clearly to target audience, presentation skills are very important. Having good presentation skills enables an individual to communicate with other people effectively. The speaker needs to prepare effectively for a presentation because it will enable him or her to communicate a given message effectively without misinforming target audience.

Good public speakers also acknowledge the importance of good preparation in relevance to effective message delivery to the public. Therefore, it helps to eliminate fear while giving them determination and courage to address target audience with confidence. It also explains the importance of training and equipping people with essential presentation skills for them to become good public speakers.

Additionally, many people do not understand or know how to deliver a presentation best with a purpose of delivering a message. This is largely attributed to lack of good presentation skills to enable individuals to communicate effectively. Training therefore, contributes a great deal to education of people on ways and methods of good presentation. Any form of presentation skills training is additionally beneficial to trainees and related parties in a given field.

It is essential to note that training offers trainees an incredible opportunity to deliver an expected message efficiently. Other indirect beneficiaries also will be in a position to get the right information in regards to the subject matter. People who are trained on how to give a presentation effectively also tend to deliver good speeches in public. There are also other related benefits accrued from good presentations.

This report therefore, offers a strategic analysis and review of training design that is required to train people on effective presentation skills.

Establishment of ground rules and regulations

Saks and Haccoun (2010), emphasize that there is need for any training environment to set ground rules to provide instructions and procedures to ensure good behaviors amongst trainees in entire training session. Besides, trainers need good instructions and procedures with an aim of ensuring good management of limited resources and time. Rules therefore clearly state the best way to tackle misconduct amongst trainees as well as ways of encouraging good behaviors.

There are also other significant benefits of ensuring good ground rules and regulations, which encourage creating an ideal learning environment. Rules and regulations enable me to provide pertinent, edifying and effective training to my target audience. I shall always endeavor to familiarize trainers with different rules and regulation applications with an aim of ensuring they behave well and make the training exercise manageable and easier.

Guidelines and rules are also essential because they prevent friction among all participants. They also have a great impact on realization of set goals and objectives of the training by ensuring that learners are well familiar with different presentation skills.

Training Objectives

Training objectives state what trainees should achieve at the end of the training. The training is directed at ensuring learners grasp presentation skills to make them good public speakers and good communicators. It also helps to ensure that learners learn how to pass the right message effectively to different audiences.

I do acknowledge the fact that understanding, confidence and early preparation as well as control are essential requirements for successful presentation. My training therefore seeks to provide good knowledge on good presentation and aims at building confidence, courage and control in learners they needs at any given time for the purpose of making a great presentation.

As a matter of fact, a speaker who is not prepared cannot deliver a good presentation. Training is essential as it prepares a person to have confidence and to be ready to give an excellent presentation. There is need to understand how to become a good speaker and a person should seek to give excellent presentation and it is all about passing the right message while entertaining the audience

Preparation also enables the presenter to be face his or her audiences confidently and pass a message as expected. It also makes desiccated subjects and different scenarios enjoyable and vivid because the presenter is specialized and has the right knowledge to address target audience in an interesting way.

Therefore, training prepares learners adequately and enables them to familiarize themselves with essential presentation skills for addressing target audience on a given subject successfully. Training also ensures that the right standards are set for trainees will be judged based on their presentation skills. It is expected that at the end of the training session, all trainees will have comprehended what a good presentation entails as well as necessary skills that are needed to make an excellent presentation.

Presentation Skills

This training aims at ensuring clear understanding of essential presentation skills and at equipping learners with the same despite the fact that it can be difficult to give an exceptional presentation. It is therefore highly advisable to prepare systematically before making a presentation in an effort to gain confidence of passing a message effectively to target audience.

It is additionally good to note that there are no short cuts to making a good presentation besides preparation. According to Atwood (2007), a presenter should, independent of the occasion aim at offering a logical and clear presentation at all times. This calls for proper organization of needed presentation skills which, demands that the presenter realizes how best and exactly how a message should be passed to target audience.

Before giving a presentation, it is also essential for one to write down the presentation, develop, select ideas and arrange main points for effective delivery of the message. Atwood (2007) also states that a person needs to understand an occasion and type of audience he or she will be addressing before giving a presentation as it helps to pass a given message effectively.

Control, besides confidence is very essential as they allow a presenter to manage his or her nerves as well as target audience thus, enabling them to respond to any question with assurance and confidence. Personal grooming and appearance is also crucial when it comes to presentations. As they say, a person’s look speaks volumes about him or her. Understanding target audience and occasion is also essential because public speakers or a presenter is judged based on looks.

Good appearance anytime for any occasion is essential as it offers confidence needed for a speaker to face his or her target audience and present information without reservations.

Training Methods

I intend to use different training methods in the training session to ensure that the objective and purpose of the training is achieved. These methods will enable me to train learners effectively for great results. I shall also blend techniques that combine different approaches for proper knowledge to learners. This is essential and appropriate because of its capability to cut down on costs as well as its flexible features. Blended training as such, uses classroom and computer technology for effective learning experience and greater result.

It is at this point where experimental learning is highly emphasized with an effort to encourage trainees to engage in an intermittent form of practice of learnt skills amongst themselves. According to Saks and Haccoun (2010), practice strategy is very essential dispenser tool for knowledge and I shall consider it because it enables trainees to rehearse acquired skills amongst themselves and ensure that they are acquainted with desired effective presentation skills.

This will also enable trainees to reach greater heights in regards to application of essential skills in real life situations and to enable them engage in the right presentation practices as the right approach to achieving set objectives at the end of training period. Saks and Haccoun (2010), also explain why active approach is significant based on the fact that it enables trainees to showcase mastery of the skills and in providing an exclusive presentation opportunity as far as learnt skills are concerned.

The method is also considered essential because it offers more inherent benefits compared to incur costs. I shall additionally use productive responses training approaches in an effort to achieve effective learning, allowing trainees to apply training materials efficiently as training progresses. The technique notably offers opportunities to help learners realize set goals and at an affordable cost.

Attentional advice is also very essential during training and a method I will use to give trainees relevant application details and strategies needed to successfully and effectively provide the program at a minimum cost. As a goal oriented trainer, I will therefore, give my trainees factual information to create an ideal learning environment for adequate training through the entire period.

Presentation is also sensitive as the information itself. For this reason, it will be essential to engage use of an important strategy as attention management to ensure training objectives are achieved per se. metacognitive strategies including self-direct, self-monitor and self-evaluation is also an incredible approach I will use in my training to enable each trainee to regulate his or her learning strategies for enhanced understanding of the presentation skills.

Active learning and understanding of the subject is also something I would highly encourage. This is because it enables trainees to be in charge of their learning endeavors. As such, it will enable them master acquired skills and become acquainted with each for ease of application of the skills during and after training.

To achieve set objectives for the program, it will also be essential to engage learners and arouse their inner desires to understand what I will be teaching them. According to Saks and Haccoun (2010), it is essential to employ error avoidance form of training in entire training. In effect, I shall employ this approach to ensure all details in regards to training period are availed to each and every trainee.

I shall therefore provide relevant training materials to each learner with proper skills while avoiding errors. This is a technique that shall serve as a way of reducing and eliminating errors during training that would otherwise make it futile and not in a position to achieve set goals.

I would also use audio visual strategy that is equally essential in relevance to points that are needed for good understanding of necessary skills. Besides his, I will help learners to familiarize with the strategy to ensure efficacy in speech and to motivate speakers to use presentation skills effectively in their training.

Application of these skills indeed will help trainers to enhance their presentations for ease of communication of the desired message. Consequently, this will make each presentation easy and possible for good understanding by those whom the message is intended for. I will therefore try to encourage learners to appreciate the fact that they need to realize they should always capture the attention of their audience by all possible means in any form pf presentation.

What’s more, they should ensure that the intended message is delivered and understood more efficiently.

Evolution and future of training

When it comes to current training approaches, the future of training entrenches itself in an experience that is lifelong to prepare individuals for more challenging experiences in their professional fields. According to Saks and Haccoun (2010), there are competent training models that can be used efficiently to enhance learning experiences amongst trainees and they have necessary considerations for training ethics.

As world changes and poses complex new challenges by the day, training will serve as a very ideal purpose to developing a positive attitude amongst individuals as they prepare for such situations. Trainers will additionally be kept on their toes to have employ the best practices in an effort to educate others people various fields. Competitive evaluation strategies will also be dependent upon in an effort to evaluate and gauge trainees as well as their abilities to deliver as they have been trained.

For example, using reliable evaluation strategies will be designed to give essential and crucial data that define trainees at the end of training session. In collaboration with other training strategies, this will play a crucial role in training programs for reliability and effectiveness of undertaking training in any given field.

In relevance to presentation skills, technology is imperative and it will keep on offering new challenges that are needed and require persistent training of individuals as a way of equipping and familiarizing them with future needs.

Conclusion

A training design is no doubt a very crucial tool that offers guidelines for successful completion of presentation skills training programs. Training design for effective skills in presentation is essential for the purpose of equipping learners with the right presentation skills. This report has therefore, expounded on a strategic analysis and review of training design that is required to train individuals on effective skills for presentation with a clear presentation of various techniques and methods I will employ to train learners on the skills.

The report notably has given me critical scrutiny of methods and techniques as well as contents of each technique as far as objectives of the research study is concerned. One also needs to comprehend the subject matter as a trainer because it enables him or her to have clear knowledge on the most ideal way to deliver quality training.

Before beginning a training session, it is equally important to table rules and regulations applicable in a training session and to ensure each learner is familiar with the rules. The purpose of the rules and regulations as earlier explained in the report is to normalize the behavior of learners during the training period.

Presentation skills are equally important techniques that enable speakers to pass information to target audience more clearly. Without proper understanding of presentation skills, a presenter will not apply them efficiently and successfully for effective communication.

In summary, this report offers the guiding principles I will employ to deliver quality training on presentation skills for effective communication of a given message to the intended target audience or a large group of people.