The Bob Pike Group is teaming up with Training magazine to present a two-day Creative Training Techniques certificate program at Training 2010 in San Diego. Bob Pike, our chairman and CEO, will personally be sharing how to design and deliver training that focuses on participants and delivers content in ways they learn, retain, and apply content the best.

Participant-centered training provides a supportive environment for exploration, struggle, and discovery, so the insights participants gain will truly be theirs, as well as the self-confidence that comes from those discoveries.

More than 100,000 trainers have attended the Creative Training Techniques Boot Camp and have learned alternatives to lecture which allow their participants to achieve higher levels of content retention in less classroom time. Join Bob and:

1. Given ten possible openers you will, during the class, apply the three tests of an opener to select and modify two to use in your own training.
2. You will observe 11 ways to create a motivational environment in a training class and create two specific methods to use in their own training.
3. Given a list of 36 alternatives to lecture, you will identify at least twenty that have been modeled during the class. From those modeled, you will select at least five to incorporate into your own training classes.
4. Using an existing training program of your choice, you will apply the 90/20/8 rule to "chunk" the content into 20 minute chunks and select at least two ways to increase participation and creatively revisit the content.
5. After observing three methods to accelerate design and delivery, you will use the methods to create individual and group mind maps that represent the content of the course to that point.
6. Given 27 methods for increasing the transfer of training, you will select three to incorporate into an existing training program.

Pre-Work/Homework:
This certificate program is both practical and interactive. You should identify one course you want to improve (for which you have responsibility) and bring all materials that relate to that course to the class. This includes PowerPoint and other visuals, workbooks and leader guides.

In addition, at the end of day one there will be an assignment to complete for the following day that will take between 30 and sixty minutes to complete. Total time required outside of class to prepare for attending and then completing the single homework assignment is two hours. Feedback will be provided for all outside work.

This certificate is designed for trainers, facilitators and designers with all levels of experience-anyone who wants to learn alternatives to lecture to achieve higher levels of retention better, faster and cheaper.

For more information on this certificate program and Training 2010 in San Diego January 29-February 2, click here. Save $150 off a Training 2010 conference or certificate program registration.  Simply register with VIP Code: CTBP2  (New registrations only.  One discount per registration.)

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