Field Trainers

Core & Advanced Competencies

A Field-Based Trainers Guide to Success

Use this guide to the Foundational and Advanced Competencies and tools needed to impact your role as a Field Based Training Professional.

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Learn More about Each of these Competencies:

Workshop Development

Explore the Steps Needed to Plan and Build a Workshop
  • How to determine learning objectives
  • Pre-work and post-workshop pull through
  • Selection of delivery modalities and factors impacting the selection
  • Design considerations for interactivity
  • The review process and workshop evaluation methods
Online Training & Resources:

💲 eLearning: Building a Workshop
💲 eLearning: How to Work with a Supplier/Partner
💲 eLearning: Project Management
💲 eLearning: Intro to Instructional Design & Delivery
💲 eLearning: Adult Learning Principle and Learning Styles
💲 eLearning: Participant Engagement Strategies
💲 eLearning: Learning Styles & Modalities
💲 LTEN PrimeTime! For Trainers core class (a focus on facilitation essentials and adult learning concepts)
✔️ Webinar: Turning Content into Learning Culture Using Design Thinking 
✔️ Webinar: Designing Visual Templates for Facilitating
✔️ Webinar: Rethinking Your Sales Training: Designing Highly Effective Sales Training for 2023
✔️ Webinar: Learning Rx: The Top Learning Trends in Life Sciences

Coaching

Coaching is an Essential Skill for Field Based Trainers
  • Explain what coaching is and what coaching isn’t
  • Describe the purpose of the coaching experience
  • Determine how to create the environment for good coaching to occur
  • Discuss how to most effectively implement a coaching model
Online Training & Resources:

💲 eLearning: Adult Learning Principle and Learning Styles
💲 eLearning: Introduction to Instructional Design & Delivery Models
💲 eLearning: Learning Styles & Modalities
💲 eLearning: Building a Workshop
💲 LTEN PrimeTime! For Trainers master class (phase two of the PrimeTime! series – enhanced trainer/learner interactions, coaching without authority)

✔️ Bridging the Gap Between Training and Coaching
✔️ A Framework for Field Coaching
✔️ Customer Centricity, Collaboration and Coaching
✔️ Amgen: Reinforcing Coaching With Field Reports
✔️ 5 Things Your Coaching Platform Should Do for You
✔️ Finding Your Framework for Field Coaching
✔️ Webinar: Coaching Reps to Help Them Find Their Stride

Instructional Design & Delivery

Design with the Learner in Mind:
  • Discuss a systematic approach that ensures the education targets the desired performance results
  • Analyze the 3 components of a training needs analysis and use the results to guide the design and development process
  • Plan the learner experience with content and activities for experiential learning that reinforces desired performance outcomes
  • Discuss development considerations and the various levels of the review process for instructional materials and eLearning
  • Explore the collection of data on the value of instruction and the learner’s experience using formative and summative evaluation methods
Online Training & Resources

💲 eLearning: Introduction to Instructional Design & Delivery Models
💲 eLearning: Learning Retention Strategies
💲 eLearning: Building a Workshop
💲 eLearning: Learning Measurement & Metrics Concepts
💲 LTEN PrimeTime! For Trainers core class (a focus on facilitation essentials and adult learning concepts)
💲 LTEN PrimeTime! For Trainers master class (phase two of the PrimeTime! series – enhanced trainer/learner interactions, coaching without authority)
💲 LTEN 6Ds Workshop (a process to design, deliver and measure training and ensure learning transfer)
✔️ The Power of People: Designing Learning in the Flow of Work
✔️ Designing Training for a Multigenerational Audience
✔️ Make it Memorable: Designing Training that Taps into Emotions
✔️ Rethinking Sales Training: Better Design, Increased Effectiveness
✔️ Eisai Sales Training: The Journey to Training Excellence
✔️ Webinar: Designing Visual Templates for Facilitators
✔️ Webinar: Rethinking Your Sales Training: Designing Highly Effective Sales Training for 2023

Learning Retention & Knowledge Transfer

  • Explore how a person learns and how you can design training more effectively to achieve higher learner retention and avoid information overload
  • Discuss spaced learning and pull-through activities to strategically plan events for recall and retrieval to maintain the learners’ long-term retention
Online Training & Resources:

💲 eLearning: Learning Retention Strategies
💲 eLearning: Adult Learning Principle and Learning Styles
💲 eLearning: Engagement Strategies
💲 eLearning: Learning Styles & Modalities
💲 eLearning: Learning Measurement & Metrics Concepts
💲 LTEN Metrics, Measurement & Learning Analytics Workshop
💲 LTEN 6Ds Workshop (a process to design, deliver and measure training and ensure learning transfer)

✔️ How Do You Know? Defining Effectiveness in Training
✔️ Amgen: Reinforcing Coaching With Field Reports
✔️ Learning Academies: Custom-Crafted Solutions
✔️ Practice Makes Perfect: Why Employees Love Immersive Simulation Learning
✔️ Transforming Learning With Training Technology
✔️ Paying Attention to Adult Learning Principles

Virtual Live Training Facilitation

Learn What it Takes to Successfully Deliver Training Virtually:
  • Learn the difference between Face-to-Face training delivered in a physical location and Virtual Live Training delivered via virtual environments such as webinar software
  • Explore the opportunities and challenges
  • Learn how to determine which method is best for your objectives
Online Training & Resources:

💲 eLearning: Learning Retention Strategies
💲 eLearning: Participant Engagement Strategies
💲 eLearning: Learning Styles & Modalities
💲 eLearning: Determining the Best Delivery Approach
💲 eLearning: Workshop Development
💲 LTEN PrimeTime! For Trainers core class (a focus on facilitation essentials and adult learning concepts)
✔️ Better Breakouts in Virtual Classes
✔️ A Path Forward: 5 Key Questions for Virtual Training
✔️ 5 Key Things the Best Virtual Presenters Do
✔️ The Essential Guide to Virtual Classroom Preparation
✔️ The Vocabulary of Virtual Training
✔️ The Hybrid Virtual Classroom
✔️ 3 Reasons Your Virtual Audience Doesn’t Engage
✔️ Webinar: Measuring the Results of Virtual Learning
✔️ Webinar: Perfecting Your Virtual Presence to Connect with Your Audience
✔️ Webinar: Virtual Icebreakers: Creating Engagement & Results

Learning Measurement & Assessment

Design with the Learner in Mind:
  • Discuss a systematic approach that ensures the education targets the desired performance results
  • Analyze the 3 components of a training needs analysis and use the results to guide the design and development process
  • Plan the learner experience with content and activities for experiential learning that reinforces desired performance outcomes
  • Discuss development considerations and the various levels of the review process for instructional materials and eLearning
  • Explore the collection of data on the value of instruction and the learner’s experience using formative and summative evaluation methods
Online Training & Resources:

💲 eLearning: Introduction to Instructional Design & Delivery Models
💲 eLearning: Learning Retention Strategies
💲 eLearning: Building a Workshop
💲 eLearning: Learning Measurement & Metrics Concepts
💲 LTEN Metrics, Measurement & Learning Analytics
💲 LTEN 6Ds Workshop (a process to design, deliver and measure training and ensure learning transfer)
✔️ Webinar: Learning Measurement & Evaluation: What Have We Learned So Far?
✔️ Webinar: Tips for Creating Fair & Valid Assessments
✔️ Can ChatGPT Write Valid Multiple-Choice Questions? 
✔️ Changing Behavior: The Real Measurement of Success
✔️ Microlearning + Measurement = Effective Continuous Learning

 

 


Self-Guided Learning

In addition to the resources above, consider the special Field Trainers eLearning Lounge Bundle, seven microlearning, self-guided modules focusing on skills specific to field training professionals. Learn more here.

  • Adult Learning Principles & Learning Styles
  • Your Role as a New Life Science Trainer
  • Introduction to Instructional Design & Design Models
  • Determining the Best Delivery Approach
  • Learning Styles & Modalities
  • Participant Engagement Strategies
  • Creating Inclusive Learning Environments