Training facilitators are guides on the side who help to effectively engage learners

CANBERRA, Australia - Oct. 17, 2022 - PRLog -- Unlike instructors or lecturers, who are subject matter experts, facilitators are process experts for workplace training programs. Facilitators support the development and process of training programs to help learners more effectively retain and apply new skills. To help clearly explain the lesser known role of facilitator, the Acorn subject matter experts have developed a guide that runs through their skills and roles, and the benefits organisations get from having one.

A facilitator is a role that involves undertaking a few different jobs to oversee and optimise training methods within an organisation. These jobs include aligning training sessions with business needs, ensuring sessions stay on track, factoring in different learning styles, empathising with learners' emotions and maintaining motivation.

A social presence such as a professional facilitator is the foundation of constructive collaboration. They help to ensure that learning objectives are achieved in the most optimal way to not waste human or financial resources.

"Optimisation should be on your L&D to-do list," said Blake Proberts (Co-Founder and Managing Director). "Utilising process experts, aka facilitators, when delivering learning programs ensures consistent alignment between L&D and business impacts – as well as gathering on-the-ground insights on how to make training impactful for the employee day to day."

In order for facilitators to move easily between the different roles they have to assume, they'll need to possess a certain skillset. Six key skills of effective facilitators include objectivity, preparedness, clear communication, positive culture building, time management and adaptability.

You can read the Acorn experts' full article about facilitators on Acorn Labs: https://hubs.ly/Q01m7lmZ0

Pursuit Technology is one of Australia's fastest growing HR technology companies. Pursuit, via Acorn LMS, takes a different view to strategically enabling HR and L&D teams compared to traditional providers. Rather than focusing on analytics after learning experience, their products use workforce planning and capability frameworks prior to any learning. By linking to a company's strategy, Pursuit products can inform organisational capability gaps and suggest education, deliver this education, then measure the impact – proving business impact by the HR and L&D team in a quantifiable way.