Course Description

In this "How to Be a Trainer" course you will learn how to conduct training sessions to help people build new skills or develop new areas of expertise. A good trainer mush be a good teacher, coach, public speaker and consultant. This course will teach you various aspects of the profession with special emphasis on how to conduct training sessions. The number one blunder most beginning trainers is dumping too much data in a boring manner to their students or trainees. A good trainer focuses on measurable results in terms of new skills and competences displayed by the trainees, not by how many boxes of content that can be checked off during a day.

TJ Walker is the founding trainer of Media Training Worldwide. Walker has conducted thousands of media training, crisis communications training and public speaking training workshops all over the globe for 30 years.

President, Media Training Worldwide

TJ Walker

TJ Walker is the founder of Media Training Worldwide and has been conducting public speaking training workshops and seminars since 1984. Walker has trained Presidents of countries, Prime Ministers, Nobel Peace Prize winners, Super Bowl winners, U.S. Senators, Miss Universes and Members of Parliament.His book, "Secret to Foolproof Presentations" was a USA Today #1 Bestseller, as well as a Wall Street Journal, and Business Week Bestseller.  A frequent network news communications analyst, Walker has made more than 2000 network TV and radio appearances on CBS, ABC, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, Al Jazeera, NBC, CCTV, Fox Business, HLN, TrueTV, Comedy Central, Sirius and NPR.In 2009, Walker entered the Guinness Book Of World Records for most talk show appearances ever in a 24 hour period. Yearly, Walker has more than a quarter of a million views of his public speaking tips videos on social media platforms.Walker is also the author of "Media Training A-Z" and "Media Training Success." Walker is also the producer/host The Facebook Page "TJ Walker - Speak to Influence" a source of daily public speaking training videos, tips and inspiration. He is also a past president of the National Speakers Association, New York City.Walker is the most prolific producer of presentation skills online training courses in the world, with more than 100 separate courses. He has more than 50,000 students enrolled from 172 countries.Walker was a merit scholar at Duke University where he graduated magna cum laude. He has lectured or conducted trainings at Yale University, Columbia University and Princeton University.***“TJ Walker’s single-minded devotion to presentation has made him the #1 expert for executives seeking guidance on speaking to the public and media.” Bob Bowdon, Anchor/Reporter, Bloomberg Television“TJ Walker is the leading media trainer in the world.” Stu Miller, Viacom News Producer“The world’s leading presentation and media training firm.” Gregg Jarrett, Fox News Channel Anchor“To break through the cluttered media environment, it's important to get your message out in a clear and concise way. TJ knows how to do it and gives you the tips to succeed."

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Overview

    • Intro
  • 2

    Training Fundamentals

    • Trainer versus Speaker

    • Pick Your Niche

    • Getting Started

    • Engaging Your Audience

    • Create a Lesson Plan

    • Creating Content
  • 3

    Practice

    • Video Rehearsal

    • 2nd Video Rehearsal

    • Video Record Real Training

    • Online Training
  • 4

    Conclusion

    • Conclusion

    • Feedback
  • 5

    Bonus Reading

    • Public Speaking Success

    • Secret to Foolproof Presentations