Training Presentation Slides – Increasing Emotional Intelligence within the Workforce

Instructions:

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You will not be able to start this assignment until you have an approved topic from the associated topic submission assignment. Each student will create a training presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint on their approved HR Training & Development topic or procedure from last week. The presentation should seek to train the desired audience on the topic towards them achieving the learning objectives you create, so each student should have selected their topic carefully based on that requirement. Slide shows should be 10-15 slides long (not including any slides asking for questions or any resource slides). APA citations and sources are not required for this assignment, however additional resource links are required (see requirements below).

I will give you all a great deal of leeway in creating this presentation. You can be creative and imaginative with your design (but you must keep it in PowerPoint). You can be creative and imaginative with the organization you are presenting to. You can make up the organization (however, no fictionalized parody organizations from TV shows or movies) or use a real one that already exists. You can be creative and imaginative with the training situation you are addressing in the organization. 

Remember also that this is not a research presentation (so again, no APA citations are needed), however a minimum of 1 Resource slide is required that lists at least 2 additional resources the trainee could use to get more information on your topic (see required slides below). A Training Presentation requires that you take the role of trainer on the topic you selected and present effective training for an organization on the topic.

At a minimum slide shows should include the following:

• Title slide giving the training presentation title, organization presented to, and trainer’s information (should be your name and the role you would be assuming if you were this topic’s trainer in the given organization).
• Slide(s) with 2-3 learning objectives that those being trained could expected to have learned during the presentation (see resources such as How To Write Learning Objectives For Employee Training: A Practical Guide For BeginnersLinks to an external site., or 5 Steps to Writing Clear and Measurable Learning ObjectivesLinks to an external site., or check out this sample presentation
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• Slide(s) briefly explaining what the training is about and why it is needed.
• Slide(s) providing the training content.
  
• Conclusion slide(s) briefly summarizing the purpose of the training and how it can be applied in the workplace immediately (a ‘call to action’).
• Slide(s) somewhere within the presentation that would indicate how the training would be evaluated (i.e. slides explaining there will be a pre-test and/or a post-test, slide indicating there will be a training survey, slide indicating how behavior change or ROI would be measured post-training, etc.).
• A Resources slide(s) at the end of the presentation that would give the trainees additional resources on your topic (these slides do not count towards the 10 slide minimum, however a Resources slide is required with at least 2 additional learning resources related to your training topic listed on that slide).

Please see this example training presentation

 (this is in PDF format, yours should be in PowerPoint format). In the past, I have been leery about providing a sample presentation for this assignment. This has mostly been because I do not want student’s presentations to look just like or very close to my sample presentation. Each student’s presentation should look very much different from the next. However, when I have provided samples for this assignment in the past, I have found that many students simply mirrored my sample presentation as closely as they could. Please do not do this. This does not achieve the purpose of the assignment which is to create a unique training presentation for your unique situation and topic presented. Use the example slides to give you a better understanding of the requirements, but do not copy or mirror it. I have no doubt that each of you have the potential within you to create your own unique presentation and I am looking forward to seeing your creation at the end of this week!

BEFORE TURNING IN PRESENTATION, PLEASE SEE BELOW:

Here is a list of the typical mistakes I see every semester that causes a reduction in points. I provide this list for you all so that you can avoid these common mistakes and hopefully maximize your points for this assignment! This is not an all inclusive list of everything that can cause a reduction in your grade, only a list of the most common mistakes.

Common errors in training presentations to avoid:

• Missing some or all Introduction slide information. Students can sometimes forget to include this basic slide introducing your presentation. Give us the training presentation’s title, the organization it is being presented to, along with your name and whatever role you would be assuming you were giving this training (all required) and, if you want, can even include a photo of you (optional).

• Missing learning objectives or misformatted learning objectives. You are required to have a slide listing 2-3 learning objectives for yur training. Learning objectives are simply quick bullets of what we expect the learner to be able to do or have earned after the training. They should provide some measurable action or performance that we can see after the training is conducted. See pages 177-179 in our textbook to get a good overview and some excellent examples of learning objectives.

• Missing slide that tells us what the training is AND why it is needed. Needs assessment is one of the most important steps in deciding there even needs to be training and the information gained during that process is what is used to design the training and the desired training outcomes. You did a simplified version of needs assessment during your topic selection. This slide should tell us what the training is and why it is needed. Nothing overly complicated, just a quick summary of both..

• Training content slides don’t provide enough information for me to put together the training. Everyone’s training content will be different based on the needs of their presentation. Some of it I will understand the training and its flow intuitively, some I will not. You should assume that I will not. Make sure that your training makes sense to a novice who would be reading over nothing more than the slides. I can’t hear your explanation or verbal presentation of the slides, so I will depending solely on the slides to understand the training. See the complimenting tip below on too much information.

• Slides contain too much information or are confusing. In the last tip above I explained that your training presentation should be detailed enough for a novice to understand the training by just reading the slides. This stands true! However, it should not be overly crowded to the point where the slide has too much information. You should keep slides formatted so that there should be no more 3-4 lines of info on any one slide (maximum, but less is better). With these training slides you must seek to be precise and concise, while still being informative. It can be challenging, but it can be done. I have no doubt that you can do it effectively!

• Incomplete conclusion slide. A conclusion slide should briefly summarize your training and tell us how it will be applied in the workplace after completed. It should give us a summary of what we were just trained on (similar to summary back towards the beginning on what we were going to be trained on. These two should be pretty similar, if not the same), however it should take it a step further and tell us how it should be applied after we leave training. What is the expectation of what trainees should do with this information post-training? This should be explained here.

• No indication of how training is being evaluated. All training should be designed with end outcomes in mind, as well with the idea of how it will be determined whether or not these outcomes have been met. This is where training evaluation comes into play. While training evaluation is typically completed after training, the evaluation method you will use should be considered in all steps of training design and implementation. I want you to focus on Kirkpatrick’s Evaluation Levels from Chapter 6 (Reaction, Learning, Behavior, Results, ROI) in this step. What measure would seek to use to evaluate whether your training was effective and met outcomes? I don’t need a detailed slide telling me the one you chose or even why you chose it. Instead, we should see a slide that mentions whatever element(s) is going to be used as part of your evaluation method. For example, a slide could mention that there will be a training survey after the training, or it could mention a pre-test and/or a post-test, or it could mention how their performance would be observed or measured after the training to measure results or ROI, etc.

• Including unnecessary in-text citation or reference pages in the presentation. The Training Presentation is different from a research presentation and does not require formal citation or reference pages. The Training Presentation is more informal and is meant to do exactly what the title says, to train others on your topic. For this reason, you do not need to cite source material or provide references as in a research presentation. This presentation is meant to be more practical in nature. Your presentation should be built to provide content that would help your trainees to meet your identified learning objectives. Although no citations or references are required, this does not give you license to plagiarize someone else’s work. The presentation should still be of your own thoughts and design and not copied word for word from elsewhere. This presentation can be a lot of fun, so be creative and be as informative as you can.

• No Resource slide or additional resources provided. Your presentation should include a Resource slide that lists at least 2 additional resources that could help your trainees better understand the topic as a whole or a portion of the training better. These resources can be websites, books, YouTube videos, TED Talks, or whatever legitimate resource you believe would be valuable to a trainee for better or deeper understanding. Again, 1 slide with at least 2 resources is required, however you may provide more resources if you choose.