Training Skills Units
The following units are the BTEC accredited assessment components of our training skills professional development certificate and award. Each unit is worth 40 credits and is measured with a short practical assessment undertaken during the event.
NT01: Design Training
This unit considers the design process in depth and will equip candidates to decide on the best strategies for their own training programmes. These intelligent planning and design decisions will lead to more efficiency in the development stages and training that is more likely to achive its aims when delivered.
Key Unit Areas
- Key educational concepts and their impact on training design
- Learning needs analysis, learner profiling and learning styles
- Establishing achievable aims, objectives and outcomes
- Instructional design for focused training
- Determining participants. support and guidance needs
- Critical evaluation of training strategies and activities
- Constructing a realistic training design brief
Unit Support
This unit is delivered, supported and assessed as part of the following events:
NT02: Develop Training
This unit examines the evaluation of different types of training resource and how to identify the most appropriate resources to support a training session. Material in different formats such as printed or online are discussed along with the advantages and disadvantages of creating bespoke resources compared with using existing or external resources.
Key Unit Areas
- Putting instructional theory into practice
- Developing individual and team skills through training activities
- Linking directed, guided and self directed approaches to learning
- Developing instructional activities to meet the training plan
- Create training resources for use in sessions
- Develop training aids to underpin learning
Unit Support
This unit is delivered, supported and assessed as part of the following events:
NT03: Deliver Training
This unit covers the delivery stage of training, including event administration, preparation of the environment and delivery of activities. It discusses strategies for smooth running events and also for when things don't go to plan. This is the stage of the training process that participants experience directly, so it is key to meeting the intended outcomes.
Key Unit Areas
- Defining venue requirements for a training session
- Preparing a contingency plan
- Preparing and delivering presentations to scoped timelines
- Using a range of presentation techniques to amplify training
- Facilitating a range of individual and group training activities
- Managing interactions between participants
- Engaging with participants through questions and feedback
- Monitoring and reviewing learner progress
Unit Support
This unit is delivered, supported and assessed as part of the following events:
NT04: Evaluate Training
This unit considers how to implement a well structured training evaluation - essential to determine the success or failure of the training. Effective evaluation will also allow demonstration of value and benefit, understanding of the relative success of different parts of the training and improves planning for the future. The unit examines methodology, design, data collection and analysis techniques.
Key Unit Areas
- Quantitative and qualitative techniques for measuring the success of training
- Evaluation criteria to measure the effectiveness of training
- Implementing an evaluation process for training sessions
- Critical evaluation of participant feedback for a selected training session
- Summarising feedback trends and make recommendations to improve training
- Using analysis data to improve training interventions
Unit Support
This unit is delivered, supported and assessed as part of the following events: