How To Be a Successful Technical Trainer

As an expert in your technical area, you may be indispensable to those around you. But, until you become a certified trainer, you won't earn the career or financial recognition you deserve. This one-of-a-kind guidebook is designed to help you meet the need for competent trainers in the exploding technology sector. Follow instructional principles approved by the International Board of Standards for Training Performance. In addition to providing step-by-step teaching assistance, and developing your career, this invaluable resource may also help you become a more informed technical expert!

• Apply clearly defined and illustrated principles to your technical training regimen
  
• Communicate effectively with learners of diverse background and experience
  
• Convey authority while maintaining your personal style
  
• Provide positive reinforcement and motivational incentives designed to reach all learners
  
• Synthesize course information, personalities, and instructional media
  
• Cultivate multiple training styles to meet individuated learning needs
  
• Design coaching and feedback strategies, including student evaluations
  
• Pace lessons appropriately to maximize information absorption
  
• Determine objectives, evaluate the audience, then deliver effective presentations
  
• Accommodate training certifications that recognize CTT, including Novel's CNI, Microsoft certifications, Adobe's ACE, Corel's CCI, and Lotus' CLI
  

• Analyzing course materials and learner information
  
• Assuring preparation of the instructional site
  
• Establishing and maintaining instructor credibility
  
• Managing the learning environment
  
• demonstrating effective communication skills
  
• Demonstrating effective presentation skills
  
• demonstrating effective questioning skills and techniques
  
• Responding appropriately to learner's needs for clarification of feedback
  
• Providing positive reinforcement and motivational incentives
  
• Using instructional methods approprietely
  
• Using media effectively
  
• Evaluating learner performance
  
• Evaluating delivery of instruction
  
• Report evaluation information
  
• Next steps: the certified technical trainer (CTT) and other certifications
  
• Appendix: candidate handbook of information
  
• Index