The Baby Boomers Guide to Why Train ONLINE Community Trainers?
By: Dana Greene
Tags: Leadership, Nonprofit, Education, Training, Teachers

Inside this eBook

Why Train the Trainer?

Why Train ONLINE Community Trainers?

Making the Decision

Finding Your ONLINE Community Trainer

ONLINE Community Trainer Workshop

Why Train ONLINE Community Trainers?

Why Train the Trainer?

Training and certifying an “ONLINE community trainer “ means identifying an existing staff person, or several staff members, who have some training expertise.

It also means teaching this person to train other staff members and community at-risk youth and adults on ONLINE community centric topics

They can be certified and licensed to use ONLINE community trainer workforce readiness, diversity and life preparation skills certification training workshops, eBooks and DVD’s. They can easily be trained ONLINE using a cell phone or other internet accessible equipment.

Why Train ONLINE Community Trainers?

An effective ONLINE community trainer program will teach trainers such skills as how to facilitate an ONLINE workshop and how to help students who are having trouble learning ONLINE.

It will also teach how-to implement an ONLINE community training program once the training is completed.

Training is often overlooked by organizations giddy with the thrill of bringing ONLINE educational materials into their office or community.

Over the years, I’ve seen many organizations finally embrace the idea that ONLINE community training technology can help them to achieve their mission more effectively and to better serve their constituencies.

But once they’ve managed to raise the money and buy the requisite ONLINE community educational materials and training software, they realize they didn’t budget the time or money to get their staff trained so that they could get the most out of their ONLINE community training investment.

One of the reasons that ONLINE community training is so overlooked is that funders often view it as unnecessary.

In budgets that must be constantly reviewed and justified, the important thing, or so commonsense says, is to get any kind of ONLINE community training materials and figure out the rest along the way.

This is fine if everything has been thought out in advance and there are people on staff who have the expertise to make the ONLINE community training programs work.

However, what happens if that person leaves? Or what happens when ONLINE community trainer materials and technological resources (webinars) are purchased for several departments, and it’s not clear how-to- use them ( Live vs. virtual ) and who will be the trainees to use them?

These and countless other situations make developing an internal ONLINE community trainer program a smart option for nonprofits (and corporations),

Training the “ONLINE community trainer “ means identifying an existing staff person, or several staff members, who have some ONLINE community training expertise and teaching this person to train other staff members to train others how-to use the ONLINE community training materials.

By training one key person to train others in the organization, you distribute the ONLINE community training knowledge and create a repository of ONLINE community training knowledge within the organization so that no one person carries all of the organization’s knowledge.

An ONLINE community trainer program could involve sending one staff member to an outside training class or to take an ONLINE community trainer webinar to learn about ONLINE community training, then teaching that staff member how to train other people on staff.

It is important to train the ONLINE community trainer on how to teach other people so that the information can be spread effectively.

Effective ONLINE community trainer programs will teach trainers such skills as how to facilitate an online training event, how to deal with students who are having trouble with online training, and how to teach implementing an ONLINE community training program once the ONLINE community training is completed.

Many nonprofits work with limited resources, financially and with staffing, and do not generally have an ONLINE community trainer training department to meet their ONLINE community training needs.

Also, given budget and current health constraints, it is not always possible to send your staff members to outside ONLINE community trainer workshops.

Developing an internal ONLINE community trainer program can be empowering, and it allows organizations to become more self-sufficient.

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