Great corporate trainers consider 7 important aspects when designing training programs. They ask why participants would learn and how to motivate them. They also consider why participants might not use what they learn and how to ensure self-motivation. Great trainers help participants create action plans and use experiential learning so participants learn on their own. They relate topics to participants' personal problems and make topics both important and interesting through humor and emotion. The goal is to design effective training that yields results for the HR department.

1. By Vikas Vats, www.vikasvats.com

2. Corporate Trainers around the world develop and implement
thousands and thousands of corporate training programs. Detailed
below are 7 important aspects that Any Great Corporate Trainer
will build into her training.
These needs to be taken care of to design a training program that
actually works and yields ROI for the HR department

3. 1. Why would they learn ?, Great Corporate Trainer
will Ask herself
This is the question every Corporate Trainer needs to ask her before designing a
training program. There are some participants who are eager to learn but there
will be some who would need external motivation.
Great Trainers always ask themselves while designing their training programs
that why would the participate learn ? Do they have some intrinsic motivation,
or will give something palpable like promotion or incentive by learning and
implementing ? or it is in some other way related to their career growth ?
This is a simple principle of adult learning that we learn once we know how
would it be useful to us.
If they don’t find any motivation for the participants, they use the first 30
minutes to motivate the participants for the topic. They start with their topic
only once they are convinced that now they not the Giver but participants are
the Takers
This is the best situation to train them when they ask for it.
It’s an old and wise adage “People hate being sold, but they love to buy”.
Usually they ask their trainees about their life goals and career goals and relate
the topic with these. Once the participants are convinced that this topic is going
to have them achieve their career goals, more than half is done.

4. 2. Why won’t they Use it ?, Must for Result Oriented
Corporate Training
This is the second question they ask themselves while designing a
corporate training program. What can keep their participants
from implementing the learning.
Their might be varied reasons to it – inertia to change,
bashfulness, environment, lack of support, need for further
coaching, maybe they would require some mentoring. Great
Corporate Trainers pave the way for their participants to a
successful implementation of training intakes.
Many times they would appraise the participants of the
problems they would face once they start implementing the
learning. Now the problems only reassure them that they are on
the right track.

5. 3. How Would they Self Motivate ?, Any Great
Corporate Trainer will Make Sure
Any experienced corporate trainer will be able to motivate
participants to change. But unfortunately this motivation is not
long lasting.
So many times participants accept that they started with
something new but could not sustain it, they lack self-
motivation.
Great Corporate Trainer train their participants on self-
motivational tricks so that they can sustain the tempo and bring
the change lock stock and barrel.

6. 4. What’s the Action Plan ?, Great Corporate Trainer
will help them Make One
Human brain tends to forget 98% of whatever it has
learned, in 30 days. Great corporate trainers make sure
that the remaining 2% is what they want it to be.
They help the participants make Action Plan and stick
to it.

7. 5. They don’t Teach, they Help them Learn
Great corporate trainers don’t teach their participants,
they create environment where the participants learn at
there on.
They use experiential learning for this. They use
activities or other training tools in such a way that when
trainees are asked what did they get out of it ? The
trainees themselves come up with the Gyan which was
intended to be imparted into them.
You are a great Trainer only if you can make them learn
at their own.

8. 6. They solve their Personal Problems
Great corporate trainers know that the key to success is
relating the topic with participants greatest needs.
They have this ability to relate the topic with
participants most common problems based on their age
group or other common factors.
Once they establish themselves as a problem solver it is
easy to motivate participants for the most difficult
changes.

9. 7. They make the topic Important and Interesting at
the same time, A must skill for Great Corporate
Trainers
Great Trainer are able to make the topic interesting by
humour and fun without diluting the importance of the
topic. They are great in verbal underlining and voice
intimidation and can seek participant’s complete
attention anytime at their will.
They are emotionally intelligent and can control
participant’s moods, emotions and feelings.

10. 7. They make the topic Important and Interesting at
the same time, A must skill for Great Corporate
Trainers
Great Trainer are able to make the topic interesting by
humour and fun without diluting the importance of the
topic. They are great in verbal underlining and voice
intimidation and can seek participant’s complete
attention anytime at their will.
They are emotionally intelligent and can control
participant’s moods, emotions and feelings.