Planning
Planning the Training: Early Stages
Task
- Decide who should help plan this training.
- Decide who will be the presenters or trainers.
- Find out how much time you have for the training.
- Decide what topics can be reasonably covered in that time. Think in terms of topics? importance.
- Assess which topics can be presented in an abbreviated fashion.
- Decide how to sequence the topics.
- Decide what you expect participants to do. For example, just listen, work in small groups or give feedback.
- Decide whether you will distribute any handouts. What handouts? Who will be responsible for photocopying these? How many will you need?
- Assess how much time you have to devote to questions and answers.
- Decide what type of training evaluation you want to conduct.
- Decide who will prepare the evaluation form and analyze the forms after the training.
- Decide what action you would like to see come out of the training.
