The Agile Trainer

The Agile Trainer

The Agile Trainer is a practical, three day program full of tips, tools and techniques to help you in your "front of room" endeavours. Not just useful for training, but also for facilitating, running meetings and making presentations.

We believe this training answers the question "What do the BEST trainers do?".

After years of studying with and learning from trainers all over the world, we have put a program together that will teach you how to:

Build a positive relationship with the group....FAST!
Design and deliver your content in an engaging way.
Use metaphor and activities to make your point more elegantly
Halve your preparation time
Get even the toughest audience on side
Bring your content to life (even if you think it's boring)

AND a trainers toolkit crammed packed with stuff that will make your next training "pop"

A set of what we reckon are the BEST flip chart markers in the world - Charters Markers
Session plan templates for 6 different types of workshops
Visual Vocabulary Dictionary full of simple pictures and icons to represent business concepts
Learning Journal
Connector Pens

Here are the details:

The Agile Trainer

Monday 27th June - Wednesday 29th June, 2011. 9am - 5pm each day

Hyatt Summerfield Suites Belmont

400 Concourse Way, Belmont CA 94404

www.belmont.summerfieldsuites.hyatt.com

We have negotiated a room rate of $179.00 for participants. Please quote the "People with PEP" event when you register directly with the hotel to secure this excellent rate.

Registration cost is $1,595.00.

Early bird $1,195.00 (register and pay by May 6th, 2011 and also get some special bonus materials valued at $437.00)

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Your registration includes:

A Workbook containing all the models discussed on the program
A set of 6 session plans for common programs delivered in corporate settings
A personal learning journal
Note taking pens
A light breakfast and lunch each day

We are looking forward to welcoming you to this amazing training.

Book online and pay via PayPal using the registration below, or Click here to download our brochure and enrolment form .

New Dates Announced

Melbourne - Beyond Cert IV - 1-3 M ay 2012

Delivered by Deb Dalziel at a Melbourne CBD venue to be determined.

Full Price: $1295.00

Early Bird: $995.00 (book and pay before 15 Apr, 2012)

Click here for more information and to enrol.

Agility –v- Resilience

I have just come back from a large summit up in Ho Chi Minh city where the word “resilience” was used a lot.

It reminded me that this is a word I hear about a lot in organisations, and amongst trainers.

When I hear the word “resilient” I immediately think of a toy I had when I was a kid. It was one of those blow up clowns, weighted on the bottom, so that when you knocked it over, it would bounce straight back to it’s original position. To me, that’s what resilience is, bouncing back.

When it comes to being a trainer, you need a certain level of resilience, sure. However I think the real trick is agility.

For me, agility is about bouncing back to a different position, to avoid being knocked down again. It would be the blow up clown with a bit of AI artificial intelligence that when it bounces back, it is to a different position every time. It learns where the “blows” are coming from and responds accordingly.

To do this, trainers need to have lots of tools and techniques so that they can move and work and find the mark with their participants.

The Law of Requisite Variety is sometimes known as Ashby's Law after William Ashby is:

"the variety in the control system must be equal to or larger than the variety of the perturbations in order to achieve control"

This simply means that a flexible system with many options is better able to cope with change.

Being an “agile trainer” requires consideration of the following:

1. If you are stuck, try something…ANYTHING! … and pay attention to the feedback you are getting.
2. If that doesn’t work, try something else….and pay attention to the feedback you are getting.
3. There’s no such thing as failure, only feedback

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