This 3rd Edition has been expanded and includes much more tool recommendations.

This 3rd edition of "How to be a Sizzling Professional Corporate Trainer" is an instructive and practical guide on how to conduct training in a business setting. It aims to transform ordinary trainers into extraordinary ones by equipping them with the necessary skills, techniques, and strategies.

The book's big idea is that anyone can become a remarkable trainer if they understand the psychology of learning, engage in thorough preparation, utilize effective presentation skills, and create interactive training sessions.

This book is ideal not just for the rookie corporate trainer but even for a professional trainer with years of experience training employees because it goes through the entire training process from the moment you find a prospective client to after the conclusion of the training.

Top Key Takeaways from the Book:

1. Understand Your Audience: A successful trainer must know their audience well to tailor their content and approach accordingly.

2. Preparation is Key: Comprehensive planning including research on the topic as well as logistical details ensures smooth delivery of training.

3. Effective Presentation Skills: Good trainers possess exceptional communication skills such as clarity in speech, body language awareness, usage of visual aids effectively etc.

4. Active Learning Strategies: Incorporating interactive elements like quizzes, role plays or group activities makes learning more engaging for participants.

5. Evaluation and Feedback: Trainers should seek feedback post-training for continuous improvement.

The tips revealed in this book are all based on the author’s own experiences derived from conducting hundreds of hours of training in a corporate and professional setting.

As the author’s expertise is in sales and leadership, the book has specific sales training techniques and leadership training ideas. Readers who have never attended any training for trainers, can immediately deploy many of the techniques revealed in the book.

The book is divided into 3 parts, which look at the Preparation activities before the training, tasks during the Training Day itself and Post-training activities.

There are 22 Chapters exploring various parts of training. If you are a trainer within your organization or a professional trainer delivering training programs to companies, all 22 chapters are essential for you as you will discover how to undertake the following tasks:

★ How to ascertain the level of the organization’s proficiency with your content & finalize it

★ How to get buy-in from managers

★ When and what equipment to test

★ The ideal training room layout & virtual set-up

★ Materials to prepare for the training

★ Physical preparation for a multi-day session

★ Grooming for the training day

★ Trainer health maintenance ideas

★ When and how to practice delivery of your content

★ Training room set-up

★ Engaging your audience

★ Agenda reveal secrets

★ The art and science of speaking to an audience

★ Instruction delivery hacks

★ Employing the different learning styles to the optimum

★ How to help your audience retain what they learn

★ The 2 most important tasks to undertake after training.

The most positive lesson you can draw from "How To Be A Sizzling Professional Corporate Trainer" is that becoming an excellent trainer doesn't happen overnight but requires continuous self-improvement efforts guided by feedback received after each training session conducted.