Powerful Training:
Practical Tools for Real-Life Trainers
Mary Jo Wimmer & Victor Klimoski
If you are a teacher, corporate trainer, consultant, or anyone who helps adults learn, Powerful Training is for you.

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Hands-on Custom Workshops
We’re here to help your experts be successful in sharing their knowledge and skills with each and every person they are training. Often, employees who are good at their jobs are promoted to train others, even though they have no experience as a trainer. Our hands-on workshop will equip them with the knowledge and skills to design and deliver excellent training. If you or your team are training employees in health care, government, industry or other fields, your organization will benefit from a Powerful Training workshop.
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Workshop Outcomes
The Powerful Training Workshop is a hands-on program designed to equip trainers with the knowledge and skills to deliver excellent training. We guide participants through a step-by-step discovery and learning process based on our custom workbook, Powerful Training: Practical Tools for Real-Life Trainers.
- Analyze how your way of learning impacts how you teach
- Practice intentionality in design by applying workshop principles to a current project of your own
- Explore how relationships in the classroom and differences in learning styles can positively affect the quality of learning
- Draw on your experience and background as a design consultant to train your colleagues
Two-Part ZOOM Workshop
The Powerful Training Workshop, in its on-line format, will help your in-house trainers sharpen their craft, whether they are beginning or experienced trainers. From the safety and comfort of home or office, your trainers can learn practical tools and their application to effective training design. The workshop builds on people’s knowledge, experience and insights in a process that models its core principles. Great trainers become increasingly intentional and reflective about what they do. Powerful Training sets that process in motion.
What you get:
- Two four hour sessions of interactive learning using ZOOM
- An opportunity to apply ideas learned to a current work project
- A pre-publication copy of the workbook "Powerful Training: Practical Tools for Real- Life Trainers"
Key topics:
- Impact of personal preferences on training practice
- Lessons about effective practice from past experience
- What to do with differences in how people learn
- Learn and apply the principles of the Powerful Training Design Wheel©
- How to use the Powerful Training workbook as a planning resource
One-On-One Coaching for Trainers
Trainers tend to know where their “stuck points” are – the parts of training that most challenge them. Having the opportunity for personal coaching helps to leverage your strengths to meet your challenges. We offer one-on-one coaching to assist you in navigating training design, developing effective materials (including PowerPoint), and working effectively with participants.
Benefits Offered:
- Explore your experience and frustrations with another skilled trainer
- Develop strategies and skilled tailored to your specific needs
- Assistance in using or adapting the practical tools in the Powerful Training
- Get feedback on the design for an upcoming training event you are leading
delivering excellent training
Workshop Outcomes
The Powerful Training Workshop is a hands-on program designed to equip trainers with the knowledge and skills to deliver excellent training. We guide participants through a step-by-step discovery and learning process based on our custom workbook, Powerful Training: Practical Tools for Real-Life Trainers.
- Analyze how your way of learning impacts how you teach
- Practice intentionality in design by applying workshop principles to a current project of your own
- Explore how relationships in the classroom and differences in learning styles can positively affect the quality of learning
- Draw on your experience and background as a design consultant to train your colleagues
Workshops
The Book
Our interactive workbook is an essential tool for our workshop participants. It lays out a practical learner-centered approach that you can immediately apply and return to as a guide for your training.
Consulting
We design customized curriculum for hands-on, practical training for your board, staff, or community. Be intentional about improving your strategies and performance.
Check out http://www.maryjowimmerconsulting.com for more training workshops.
Resources
BECOMING AN INTENTIONAL TEACHER
Mindfulness in teaching? Yes, by all means. Every act we do as a teacher should be intentional. Click below to find out four things to be especially intentional about as a teacher.
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