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TRAINING DESIGN

If you have a training need which would encompass many of your personnel - and where consistency and branding is paramount, a bespoke training design would be the answer. Contact us for a no-obligation chat (by clicking here to email us – enquiries@stratusassociates.co.uk) or calling 0161 904 7060 and asking for ‘TRAINING DESIGN’

You couldn't see an award-winning play without someone producing a great script, ensuring the set was right, and the costumes perfect for the story. The cost of your ticket doesn't just pay the actors and the director. It pays for the lighting, the catering, the cleaning, the casting, the script, the make-up and so on.

"Why should you expect to have great training without investing in everything that goes on 'behind the scenes'? Let's get the 'Plain Jane' of training a little more centre stage, and give her the credit she deserves. After all, without her, performance would be all show and no substance."

Here are 10 good reasons why quality training design is worth the investment. By course design, we mean producing trainers’ guidelines, a detailed delegate booklet, slides, activity sheets, post-course activities, distance learning, evaluation, and so on. To take it even further back, it means consciously and creatively thinking about the best methods to use to achieve your organisational objectives.

Encourages Ownership. As a client, you can contribute to the course content directly, integrating key policies, processes and standards where you feel it is appropriate.
Improves Commitment. Course outlines and sample materials can be circulated before it is run to gain buy-in from a higher authority, and get a ‘buzz’ going about it.
Added Value. Tangible materials provide ‘added value’.
Meeting Objectives. It is easy to demonstrate exactly how the desired objectives will be met before the training takes place, providing you with reassurance that the training will meet your needs.
Innovation. Professional training designers are able to build in a range of activities to suit the needs of the learners or learning styles, whilst maintaining key messages. Approaches can include the highly innovative as well as traditional – or a mix of both.
Consistency. For programmes run over time or different locations, professionally designed materials ensure that the core messages stay the same.
Transfer of Learning. Delegates have detailed reference material to refer to after the course (instead of just copies of slides). More innovative methods, such as “just-in-time” and “bite-size” training can help get learning to your people when and where they most need it.
Flexible Approach. Training designers are not limited to classroom training. They will consider ALL learning options, and be able to combine methods to provide a truly blended solution that meets your needs.
Integrated Solutions. Professionally designed materials reflect and refer to your business practices, making the training more meaningful to delegates. Incorporated into design, key business messages/processes can be communicated to all deliverers, rather than having to brief them all separately.
Aids Evaluation. With detailed training materials, it is easier to complete an objective evaluation of the programme as you know exactly what has been covered. Skilled training designers will build in measures throughout the programme and beyond that make evaluation at all 4 levels possible.