This programme has been specifically designed for trainers in the legal sector to take account of the particular challenges they face. Suitable for fee-earners, Professional Support Lawyers and L&D professionals, and relevant to both legal and non-legal audiences, delegates will leave the session with an essential ‘toolkit’ for designing and delivering effective training sessions.

Programme includes:
• Preparing to teach (considering the importance of practicalities such as preparation, room set-up and the learning environment)
• Setting learning outcomes (how to set appropriate and achievable outcomes)
• Qualities of excellent trainers (analysis of what is effective in a legal training environment and recognition of the factors at work)
• Learning styles & learning theory (an appreciation of different learning styles and how best to cater to them)
• Facilitating group work (how to set up, manage and run activities)
• Time management
• Questions and questioning (different types of questions and how to recognise when to use them to fit situations plus how to get the answer you want)
• Dealing with challenging participants
• Use of visual aids (including Powerpoint)
• Session design (where to start and what to consider).

Benefits:
• Be able to design an effective training session catering to different learning styles
• Be confident about the basic practicalities such as room layout, format, exercises and questioning
• Understand the essential components of effective training and different learning styles
• Deliver training with more confidence and ability
• Appreciate the challenges a legal audience can present and learn how to deal with such challenges
• Have gained valuable personalised feedback and a development action plan