This document provides an agenda and guidance for trainers to empower themselves and others. It discusses defining empowerment and sharing experiences of being empowered. The qualities of a great trainer include strengths in logistics, presenting, facilitating, and coaching. Adult learners have characteristics like self-concept, experience, readiness to learn, and orientation to learning that effective trainers must consider. A framework is presented for creating effective learning opportunities through elements like objectives, energizers, content, implementation, and reflection. Sample training scenarios are discussed to practice handling different situations that may arise.

1. Training for Trainers:
Empower Yourself
to Empower Others!
Nancy Hanna, Educational Consultant
Mary Sheka, Iowa Mentoring Partnership

2. EMPOWERMENT
DEFINE IT
SHARE ATIMEYOU WEREEMPOWERED OR ATIMEYOU
EMPOWERED SOMEONE ELSE

3. Who are you?

4. Questions of the Day
• What are the qualities that make a
training facilitator GREAT?
• How do adults learn?
• What is a framework for creating
effective learning opportunities?

5. Agenda
Opener – group
Characteristics of a GREAT
trainer
Self-Assessment
Adult Learners/Read and
discuss
A framework for training
Real life scenarios
Next Steps

6. What did it feel like when you were
learning to ride a bike?

7. What makes a GREAT trainer?

8. 4 areas of strength…
• Logistics
• Presenting
• Facilitating
• Coaching

9. Self-Assessment

10. Adult Learners
• Self-Concept
• Experience
• Readiness to Learn
• Orientation to Learning

11. Empower Yourself
to Empower Others!
Training Scenarios
Read the scenario in your group
Discuss how you would handle it

12. Framework
✓Welcome
✓Objectives (Questions of the Day)
✓Energizer (Group)
✓Agenda
✓Opener (Group)
✓Main content
✓Implementation
✓Reflect/Evaluate

13. WHAT?
SOWHAT?
NOWWHAT

14. “People do things to get their needs met,
not to make our lives difficult.”
“What we learn with pleasure, we never
forget.” Alfred Mercier
“Learning is an experience, everything else
is just information.”
Albert Einstein