The ability to communicate and present information has become a core competency for most supervisors, team leaders and managers. Facilitation and training skills are equally as important in getting the right outcomes and results from a diverse team or from key individuals. The PFT bundle is designed to ensure that essential skills are maintained and kept relevant and up to date.

The PFT bundle consists of 6 core skills programmes

to help develop superior skills in the following essential areas. Scroll down for more information on each title:

In any organisation today, meetings of all kinds take place on a routine basis - The ability to hold effective meetings requires sound facilitation skills – This is an expected core competency for managers, team leader or indeed anyone who needs to run effective meetings and achieve the desired outcomes. All meeting leaders and hosts will benefit from this course.

Designed as a two-day workshop. This course will help to ensure that core facilitation skills are delivered consistently and efficiently across your organisation. The materials are well tested and have been refined over thirty years of real world meeting facilitation in all types of business and group situations.

This skills based workshop will help you teach delegates how to:

• Understand the difference between facilitation, training, presenting & preaching.
• Practice the competencies used for effective facilitation of small groups  
• Look at the differences  between process & content
• Discuss the 4 stages for the development of a team and ways to help individuals through the stages
• Introduce a common facilitation process to make meetings more productive and more effective

A great course to help develop critical facilitation skills.

2.   Essential Skills for Training New Trainers (Train-the-Trainer)

This course provides everything you need to professionally deliver Train-the-Trainer training. This course is for delegates who are thinking about becoming trainers, or have started delivering training already and want to further develop their training skills.

This one-day workshop will help you teach delegates:

• Essential skills for new trainers
• How being prepared enhances training
• How to ask good questions that develop a concept in the minds of delegates
• Interpersonal skills for effective communication
• Key listening skills
• How to develop rapport building strategies with your delegates
• The essentials of training presentation skills

More people are becoming trainers, either by choice or because their jobs require this skill. Often individuals fall into a difficult situation with little understanding of what training is or how to deliver it well.

This three-day workshop will help you teach delegates how to:

• Write training and development objectives
• Evaluate the effectiveness of training session
• Utilise and effective training style
• Develop and use training aids and techniques
• Manage an instructors  
• Prepare a training course and deliver consistently and effectively
• Recognise individual training needs and adult learning styles

Delegates will get the opportunity to deliver a group training session that incorporates the learned training concepts.

4. Essential Skills for Trainers – Further Skills Development

Build on the fundamental training skills for those experienced as trainers.  This course provides everything you need to professionally deliver on going career development skills for Train-the-Trainer training including delegates training manual,  comprehensive instructor guide and course slides with practical  exercises.

5. How to Make Training More Enjoyable

Many of us have attended courses where fun and learning don’t appear to be compatible classmates. Perhaps you have also attended a course where the class joker was able to lighten the mood and help delegates have fun without there being any detrimental impact on the necessary training. Professional Trainers understand that properly applied and appropriate humour can help make training sessions highly engaging and much more memorable and fun. The good news is as a trainer you don’t need to be the class clown or a stand-up comedian to make training enjoyable.

This one-day workshop will help delegates  identify what kind of humour  is appropriate in the modern classroom, and methods to help them engage their delegates in a more compelling way.

This one-day workshop will also help you teach delegates how to:

• Understand how training can include the use of humour
• Use modern day methods to enhance learning
• Identify ways to gain delegate buy-in
• Use humour to enhance adult learning
• Develop their own personalised approach that suits their style and temperament

6. How to Develop an Effective Training Session

Research shows that the quality of the initial orientation and training for new employees joining a company is a key factor in staff retention. Training is essential for the development of any company or organisation. Knowledgeable individuals that continue to learn throughout their career are a very valuable asset to any firm. Getting new employees off to a good start is a fundamental necessity to the ongoing success of an organisation and a key mile stone on the Talent Management path.

This skills workshop  is designed for a trainer who wants to develop training programmes that are both meaningful and practical, and will benefit course delegates  and the organisations they work for now and long into the future.

This two day workshop will help you teach delegates how to:

• Structure essential elements of a training programme
• Implement varying methodologies to programme design
• Prepare, research, and deliver meaningful, effective and appropriate course content
• Use an instructors guide to maintain and manage quality and consistency
• Create a proposal to sell the need for a particular training programme