
In this lecture you take one lesson you already teach and rebuild it in four weeks: what the person must be able to do after it, the task that trains exactly that, the check that shows it happened, and a test run on one real person.
This course is built from five disciplines: learning and development, online course creation, the trainer's craft, facilitation and AI in learning.
The map of the course
A dictionary for reading lectures from other fields as work on your own course
Three questions to ask after every lecture
A short self-diagnostic that shows which sections to watch first
Download the Lesson Rebuild Plan and fill in one line after each lecture.
Tools in this lecture
Files to download (1)
The ATD competency model for a learning professional
How adults actually learn, which is not how courses are usually built
The training plan and the ADDIE model
Assessing organisational learning needs, and the types of training available
Trends, and the six disciplines of breakthrough learning
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (1)
Models and methods explained (8)
Shaping the end goal before designing anything
Learning treated as a business strategy rather than a benefit
Linking learning objectives to business goals
Defining business outcomes and the basic types of learning outcome
Mapping the learning journey, with a diagnostic checklist
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (8)
Models and methods explained (1)
What training actually consists of
What affects the outcome, and in what proportion
The learning process: preparation, the learning itself, the transfer
Moving learning into practice, with a design checklist
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (8)
Models and methods explained (7)
How learning works mechanically
The key steps, and the nine steps of learning in full
The bottlenecks, and the importance of repetition
Success factors, motivation to learn, and the learning value chain
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (5)
Models and methods explained (2)
Transfer to the workplace as the real measure of benefit
The main challenges of getting knowledge applied
The sixteen factors that decide whether it happens
The role of the manager, and the power of reminders
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Models and methods explained (2)
Why performance support matters more than the course itself
How it works, and the options available
The purpose of a coach after training
The role of feedback, with a support checklist
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (4)
Models and methods explained (1)
Why results have to be evaluated, and who asks
Justifying the business benefit
Types of evidence, and the problems with each
The six steps of evaluation, and reporting back to management
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Models and methods explained (2)
The difference between training and development
The development techniques available
Career development
Talent management, and working with high-potential and high-performing people
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (7)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (3)
Models and methods explained (7)
What human resource development means at organisational level
The nature of organisational development, and change management
The learning organisation model
Knowledge management, executive development and succession planning
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Models and methods explained (10)
Linking learning to company strategy
Connecting it to the other people systems
Automating training, and moving it online
Gamification, and where it genuinely helps
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (3)
Models and methods explained (4)
The differences between an online and a traditional course
Learning theories and adult learning
The key principles of effective learning
What creating an online course actually involves
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (2)
Models and methods explained (11)
The basic principles of working with the technology
The toolkit you genuinely need
Choosing the right technology for your format
What helps and what only appears to
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (1)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (8)
Choosing a topic and building the programme
Where the material comes from
Questions and homework that make people work
Intensive formats, and the practices that raise usefulness
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (9)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (2)
Models and methods explained (2)
How to behave during a live session
Working with the audience in real time
The stages of the learner's life cycle, and how to act at each
Preparing for the session, launching it, opening the discussion
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (9)
Models and methods explained (2)
Tracking whether knowledge has actually landed
Training people to apply it during the course
Providing feedback and using case studies
Reflection, ending the training, and the debrief
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (10)
Models and methods explained (1)
Managing the course as it runs
Monitoring progress
Challenging students who have drifted
Checking homework, and what makes a course genuinely useful
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Models and methods explained (11)
Structure, content, style, support and the difficulties of the role
What separates a trainer from a coach
Dale's Cone, the pyramid of learning
Formats and types of training, and how effectiveness is evaluated
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (1)
Models and methods explained (7)
The first stage of the cycle: problematisation
Pre-training preparation, and the optimal number of participants
What the room should look like, and why coffee breaks matter
Badges, markers, and designing the programme
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (13)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (2)
Models and methods explained (2)
The importance of visual material
The timetable of the day
Working styles of the trainer
Reflection, conceptualisation and practice as stages two, three and four
The model for creating a training design
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (9)
Models and methods explained (3)
Resistance, group dynamics and the other difficulties
Introducing group norms
Warm-up exercises and engaging participants at the start
The four phases a group moves through
Facilitation versus moderation, and dealing with objections
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Models and methods explained (2)
The structure of business training
Introducing yourself, and using aphorisms, metaphors and parables
Getting to know participants and setting individual aims
Teaching theory without losing the room, and five rules for sub-groups
How to end a training properly
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (9)
Online training as a different discipline
Running webinars effectively
The technical solutions available
Maintaining contact with a group you cannot see
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (7)
How facilitation relates to decision-making
The basic principles
The role of the facilitator, which is not teaching
The single most important facilitator skill
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (9)
Models and methods explained (1)
The main stages of preparation
Formulating the goal
Selecting who should be in the room
Opening so the first ten minutes are not wasted
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (15)
Models and methods explained (1)
Keeping participants focused
Managing the group
Taking notes without losing the thread
Gathering information, generating ideas, choosing priorities
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (23)
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Training that gets excellent satisfaction scores and changes nothing at work is the normal outcome, not the exception. People enjoyed it, learned something and went back to their desks to do exactly what they did before. Here are 334 tools to design for the change: 227 ready-to-use procedures, question lists, checklists and templates, 77 models and methods, 29 services shown on screen and a lesson rebuild workbook.
Open a lecture, take the procedure, and rebuild one lesson around the behaviour you want to see.
Why good training changes nothing
Courses are designed around content, not around what people must do differently. There is no plan for transfer, managers are not involved, and evaluation stops at the smile sheet. Online courses copy classroom slides, and adults leave after the second module.
What changes after this course
You start from the competency and the result, design the course with ADDIE, plan transfer and support after training, and evaluate beyond satisfaction. Your online courses keep adults engaged, your live sessions are well facilitated, and AI speeds up the routine parts.
What is inside: 334 tools, counted lecture by lecture
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
Where the tools are
Learning foundations (2 sections, 47 tools). The competency model, ADDIE, result-based learning and transfer.
Evaluation and strategy (2 sections, 48 tools). Evaluating learning, developing people, organisational development and learning strategy.
Online learning (2 sections, 73 tools). How adults learn, platforms, content, delivery and engagement.
The trainer's craft (2 sections, 65 tools). Role, preparation, delivery, methodology and online delivery.
Facilitation (2 sections, 103 tools). Principles, preparation, running, closing and difficult cases.
AI in learning (2 sections, 28 tools). Platforms, course generation, development plans and evaluation.
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
I started my career at Alfa-Bank in two roles at once, recruiter and trainer: I hired a group, trained them, put them to work and hired the next one, six times over, until I had trained about 100 people. Later, whenever we hired a staff trainer, we always asked for a demo training after the competency interview, because only that showed how the person actually delivers.
How to use the course
Start with the learning foundations, then design or rebuild one course using the online learning and trainer sections. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
Where to start
Take one course you run and write what participants should do differently afterwards, then open the first lecture. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.