Do your in-house trainers have the knowledge and skills they need to effectively deliver training?

How many people in your organization participate in employee training? Whether it is your in-house training specialist or supervisors and managers who share their knowledge with their team members, the effectiveness of your internal safety trainers can impact workplace safety outcomes.

How to provide effective in-house health and safety training

​Adult learners present a unique set of training challenges because they respond differently to proven teaching techniques used for children. To effectively train adults, instructors must understand how adults learn best.

Typically, adults will remember:

• 10% of what they read
• 20% of what they hear
• 30% of what they see
• 50% of what they hear and see
• 70% of what they say
• 90% of what they say and do

​Encouraging adult learners to become more involved in the learning process can increase knowledge retention, learner satisfaction and confidence to apply new skills in the workplace.

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Why choose MidSouthWest Training and Consulting as your Train the Trainer training provider?

MidSouthWest offers more than 15 subject-specific Train the Trainer courses, including training manuals in both English and French!

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Assessing your in-house training capabilities

Before beginning any training program, we recommend that you spend time assessing your current in-house training capabilities.
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Effective trainers should be able to:

• Explain why it is important to communicate learning objectives to trainees
• Recognize the characteristics of effective and ineffective trainers
• Describe the six basic steps to proper preparation
• Explain what is different about adult learners
• Identify common barriers to communication
• Use different question-and-answer techniques to facilitate learning
• Handle difficult situations using a variety of adult learning techniques
• Use visual aids effectively
• Be able to confirm that learning has occurred using a variety of evaluation techniques

If your in-house training specialist, managers and supervisors struggle to answer any of the questions listed above, they would benefit from attending a Train the Trainer course. 

What is Train the Trainer training?

At MidSouthWest Training and Consulting, we separate our trainer training course into two components:

• An overview of adult learning and strategies for motivating effective learners. This course is recommended for in-house training specialists, as well as managers and supervisors interested in improving their employee training skills.
• Subject-specific training. Trainers will learn how to effectively deliver subject-specific knowledge, including topics such as such as WHMIS, Forklift, Aerial Lift, Overhead Crane Operator, or TDG.

​Proven benefits of Train the Trainer courses
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MidSouthWest Training and Consulting delivers a Train the Trainer course with proven benefits. Our experienced and knowledgeable trainers regularly work with in-house training specialists to help them improve their training effectiveness to increase employee understanding and knowledge retention. For those new to training, we can take them from novices to people who are confident to train.

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Strategies to motivate adult learners and improve training results

Whether you are a training specialist, manager or supervisor, there are several techniques you can use to improve training outcomes.
We recommend using the following strategies to help motivate adult learners.

• Use adult learners’ experiences to enhance learning by sharing experiences with peers.
• Design training material to be relevant and applicable to the adult learners work responsibilities.
• Provide practical, useable and pertinent information to help adult learners reach their goals.
• This can be accomplished through hands-on evaluations, role playing exercises and case studies.
• Show respect by acknowledging the experiences of the participants.
• Before training your next course, take a moment to think about the adult learners in your class, their experiences and, how you can modify your teaching style and course material to suit their needs.

​Last updated February 8, 2019