How To Organize A Successful Leadership Development Training Program

By Virginia Green


Many are times when you get invitations for training in different places. Some of the trainings are significant for your business while others you can opt not to attend. Before the meetings come into being, they take a lot of preparations of which if they are not planned properly, they become a total sham. If you are planning on organizing any form of leadership development training and you have no idea on how to do it, then you will find the ideas in this article quite resourceful.

All workshops must have a theme and each year attracts a different topic. However, before you come up with the theme, you need to identify the pressing challenges that business and corporate leaders are going through. As such, the invited leaders will be glad to attend the training to learn how they can handle the upcoming challenges both in marketing and production.

Whatever your theme will be based on, you have to identify facilitators who have talent in those subjects. For instance, if the existing problem concerns the stock exchange rates, invite officials from that sector and ensure they have good communication skills. Moreover, they should agree to receive reasonable fees for the entire session that they will be facilitating. The wrong choice of facilitators will cause uproar among the attendants.

How do you find the best venue for a training session that will take days? Taking the training in a venue that was used a year before is not wise. People enjoy learning in new environments and taking the workshop to an interesting venue could be more fruitful. However, you ought to consider the travel distance that will be covered by the participants because if the venue is far away from the city, only a few people can attend.

Training materials, foodstuffs, accommodation and venue hire are expensive, and it takes a good amount of fee from those that will attend. Calculate all the expenses and use their estimate in arranging a fee for all the participants. An account number should be included in the invitation letter where those that are willing to attend should confirm using emails or phone calls.

After getting the amount payable for each participant and a venue, start sending invitation letters. These letters should carry your letterhead, the names of the facilitators, theme of the teaching and topics that will be covered. With such information, the attendees will be aware of what they are coming to do and eager to listen. Remember to include the contacts of the host and direction of the venue to avoid confusion among your participants.

A few days before the training is scheduled to start, start organizing everything in place. Table arrangement in the conference hall, boarding facilities, and catering services should be ready and arranged properly. Hygiene and level of comfort should be your top priority and concern.

Equipment hire is another thing that has to be taken care of some days before the beginning of the workshop. Get working speakers, microphones, projectors and audio-video machines ready for the facilitators. Also, make sure there is a backup system somewhere to avoid confusion when one of them fails in the middle of a presentation.




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