Teaching, Presenting & Facilitating
Teaching, Presenting & Facilitating
Teaching, Presenting & Facilitating
Train-the-Trainer Workshop
Sharpen skills in designing and delivering effective, engaging instruction by incorporating the science of adult learning and instruction, as well as feedback from instructors and colleagues, into your training.
Key Outcomes:
Design objectives, activities, content, and structure using a “backward designed” model;
Develop supporting materials using principles of multimedia learning and design; and
Deliver an introduction for your presentation and facilitate an engagement exercise.
For each segment, you will receive specific, helpful feedback using a model designed for training.
Duration: 2.5 days, but length and content can be tailored to specific needs.
Working Group/Conference Planning Workshop
Need to plan a training or conference but not sure where to start or how to make it engaging? This workshop will walk you through our “backward designed” training development model to create a training or conference framework and agenda that incorporates academic and practical research on adult learning.
Key Outcomes: Develop a complete program/conference agenda that includes clear, audience-focused objectives, engaging activities and discussions, and relevant content/topic areas.
Duration: 1 day or less, depending on the size and scope of the program or conference.
Creating Effective PowerPoint Slides
We’ve all been in presentations or meetings where the speaker monotonously reads from a poorly designed set of PowerPoint slides overflowing with text – a frustrating and often ineffective means of communicating information or influencing audiences.
Key Outcomes: Based on research about how to use multimedia (e.g., slides, handouts) most effectively, learn how to provide critical information without overloading or confusing your audience. Learn and incorporate ways to make your presentations more effective by discussing common mistakes with PowerPoint slides and how to avoid them when presenting.
Duration: 60-90 minutes.
Creating Effective Visuals for Presentations and Trials
Audiences have shorter attention spans and expect more visual stimulation. Communicating clearly and effectively, especially when presenting new or complicated information, requires thoughtful use of words and graphics to maintain audience attention and help listeners understand and remember information.
Key Outcomes: Learn five research-based ways to use visuals in your presentations and trials to support audience attention, understanding, motivation, and decision-making.
Duration: 60-90 minutes.
Active Listening
Effective communication begins with intentional listening. This targeted training equips professionals and supervisors who need to influence others with the skills to foster trust, clarity, and collaboration through active listening—an essential leadership competency in today’s dynamic workplace.
Key Outcomes: Examine and practice research-based methods on how to listen with purpose and build an environment of trust and credibility.
Duration: 60-90 minutes.
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Master the art of delivering actionable, respectful feedback—and receiving it with openness and resilience. Build a culture of continuous improvement by turning feedback into a tool for growth, not judgment. Whether you're leading teams, mentoring colleagues, or navigating complex stakeholder relationships, this training equips you with practical strategies to elevate your communication, strengthen collaboration, and lead with authenticity.
Key Outcomes: Learn techniques and methods to deliver constructive feedback, which is specific and actionable, that motivates improvement and creates an environment and culture in which feedback is collaborative and received with openness.
Duration: 60-90 minutes.
Fully Customizable Training
Many of the above-offered trainings can be combined and/or modified based on specific needs. As one example, trial advocacy training can be combined with Communication Skills and/or Creating Effective Visuals for Presentations and Trials training where requested. Or as another example, a train-the-trainer workshop can be offered in conjunction with an already existing trial advocacy program to help improve or modify a current course and provide useful feedback to improve future offerings.