Facilitate highly successful staff development sessions with new brain-friendly strategies, 25 key concepts for training smarter, sample schedules and planning templates, and recommendations for incorporating current technology.Facilitate highly successful staff development sessions with new brain-friendly strategies, 25 key concepts for training smarter, sample schedules and planning templates, and recommendations for incorporating current technology. Rich Allen has done it againanother clear, practical, and powerful resource for all educators. These principles and strategies ought to be mandatory for everyone who presents for a living. Rich Allen has the rare ability to identify and define with clarity the elements of excellence in training. In TrainSmart, he reveals the pathway from good presentation to great presentation. Every professional trainer should use this resource to support their continuous improvement plan. TrainSmart is the best, clearest, most to-the-point, practical, and most valuable resource available for trainers. With this second edition, Rich Allen has gone from 'great' to 'even greater.' It is a required guide for our trainers and the new text in our Trainer of Trainers program. Rich Allen is THE consumate trainer with a natural gift for delivering effective, dynamic presentations. This is a must-read for beginning professional developers, and it also offers veterans new ideas. If the intent is to raise student achievement via high-quality presentations, then?this book meets its goal. A powerful text in a small package,?designed to teach trainers and workshop facilitators within or outside of education how to design effective training sessions. Preface Acknowledgments About the Author Part I. Prepare for Effective Trainings Every Time Overview The Five PlS%