Trainer Makeover

Do your trainers deliver the course material they have to get through, or do they deliver an all round event that is both memorable and effective?

By investing a day of your trainers and learning specialists’ time, we can provide a day that is packed with tips and techniques that will leave them energised, enthused and ready to take their training delivery to a new level.

We look at the science behind learning and how to bring that science to every learning event to make them interactive, brain-friendly, fun, and above all, memorable.

Your Learners will benefit enormously from this course as well as your Learning Specialists. Learners will gain greater knowledge and skills and – this is the key – remember more. Learning Specialists will get greater job satisfaction by delivering material in a fresh and dynamic way

Course Evaluation

Do you feel that your training provision is a little off key, but not sure why?

Allow our Learning Specialists to attend one of your courses as a Learner and evaluate the entire experience. We will review all aspects of the training – from the moment of first contact, to the time the course is wrapped up. Every area of the training will be looked at objectively:

• Course content
• Style of training
• Venue/Location
• Room layout
• Support material
• Correspondence
• Evaluations
• Level of interactivity

Following the course, we will write a report on our findings and send it to you within two working days. The evaluation will contain a review of the course attended and will focus on identifying areas of good practice and also areas where improvements could be made.

For each improvement discussed, solutions will be put forward which could take the form of additional support from Lightbulb Training Consultancy Limited, or be areas that could be tackled ‘in-house’.

Training Support Material Design

A lot of the time the courses that you run are judged on the quality of the handouts and support material that are presented.

As a general rule the material benefits from being professionally printed. It should be of benefit to the learner not only throughout the course, but also in the longer term afterwards. As the Learner starts to apply the knowledge or skills that they have developed as a result of the training, the handouts should be useful and valuable reference items.

Our experience in turning ‘techy’ user guides into end-user-friendly workbooks will ensure that learners will take away a useful and personalised reference for each course that they attend.

Contact us now to arrange a meeting so that we can begin to understand your requirements.

Training Delivery

What a scenario – Training needs to be delivered to your staff, but the training budget has been cut – or worse. Here’s the challenge – ‘How do I cut costs, not corners?’

• It’s time to think outside the box
• Don’t just think ‘how can I provide what I do now for less cost?’
• Think, ‘How can I IMPROVE the training I provide AND cut costs?’

Why not use the services of a learning specialist when you want them, not when you don’t? This is where the great people at Lightbulb Training Consultancy can help.

Instead of a full-time training department, go for an on-demand training department.

• You need to run a course – you need a trainer – you call Lightbulb.
• When you don’t have a course to run – you don’t call Lightbulb – and you save money.

Give us a call and see how you can start saving money!

Training Evaluation

For any learning strategy to be effective, it is essential that an evaluation process is built into your learning solutions.

Because of the way that the brain learns, the most effective forms of evaluation are ones that are repeated several times after the training has been attended.

Evaluations can take the form of in-course reviews, immediate post-course questionnaires and later post-course assessments of the effects of the training in the working environment

Our Learning Specialists will review your current courses and provide advice on the best way to evaluate each of them.

Training Needs Analysis

• What training do you provide?
• How does your training provision meet the needs of your organisation?
• How do you know if the training achieves its objectives?
• Does your training provision have objectives?
• Why do you provide it the training?

Are you able to answer all the questions above to your complete satisfaction? If not, you may find that you are providing training that is not required by your organisation simply because ‘we’ve always done it like that’. On the flip side, you may not be providing vital training needs simply because you are tied up with the stuff no-one needs.

Our Learning Specialists have experience in conducting Training Needs Analyses to ensure that your training provision is fit for purpose, necessary and above all, value for money.

In order to assess your training requirements, we will need to gather information about your organisation to fully understand its ethos, values and objectives. This can be achieved in a number of ways, but once known, it allows us to provide a tailored solution to your needs.

This information we help us to deliver a report that will provide you with training solutions that will maximise the benefit to both the organisation and the employee. At the same time, we endeavour to minimise disruption to ‘business as usual’ for your Managers.

Your Investment

Training is a real and visible investment in your people. It tells them that you value them and that the development of their skills and knowledge is important to you. This in turn is a huge benefit your organisation as your people will be more motivated, and therefore more productive in what they do. We all need our people to ‘go the extra mile’ in these days of tightening purse strings and they are more inclined to do that if their employer is clearly seen to be investing in their future

Our investment menu for 2011 is very flexible and price plans can be configured based on your specific requirements. We would be very happy to discuss these with you to ensure you get the best value for money from our services. However please see the price guide below to give you an idea of our charges.

Consultancy day (Non-Training delivery)
Whole day	£495
Half day (am or pm)	£275

Training day
Day delegate rate (6 hour session)	£125
Half day delegate rate (3 hour session)	£75
(Prices for a training day are per delegate for a minimum of 4 delegates per course)

Expenses where applicable will be capped to the following maximum rates

Hotel accommodation	£100 per night (£125 inside the M25)
Dinner	£40 per night
Lunch	£10 per day

Travel expenses will be charged at cost all on a standard class basis.
Mileage is charged at 40p per mile and based on actual return mileage from our offices in Warwickshire.

Any materials used in courses that we design will be charged at cost and agreed in advance.

All the charges listed above are net and VAT will be charged as appropriate.