Most internal training is built by someone who's never been trained to train. Kolb, Knowles, ADDIE applied to a real upcoming session — plus the facilitation craft that handles the difficult room.
Most internal training is built by someone who knows the content but has never been formally trained to train it. The session has 90 slides, no observable outcome, no live practice, and the audience leaves remembering how nice the trainer was — not what they learned. The cost is real: the L&D budget moves, the team doesn't.
This workshop is built on Malcolm Knowles' adult learning theory and David Kolb's experiential learning cycle — the two frameworks that underpin almost every credible UK L&D qualification, from the LD Practitioner Level 3 apprenticeship through to CIPD's professional standards. We combine them with the ADDIE instructional-design model and Bloom's taxonomy for outcomes.
The day is built around a real upcoming session each delegate will deliver. Morning: design it backwards from outcomes. Afternoon: deliver a 5-minute section with practitioner feedback, refine, deliver again. Leave with a fully-designed session, two rounds of feedback, and the confidence to deliver it — not a workbook.
Built on Kolb's experiential learning cycle + Knowles' adult learning theoryEvery TESS workshop is designed backwards from the change you want to see in your team's behaviour. Here's what coaching graduates do differently on the Monday after.
Bloom's taxonomy — write outcomes the audience can demonstrate, not topics you can list.
Experience · reflect · conceptualise · apply — drilled on your real session.
Why adults disengage in 8 minutes, what re-engages them, and the discipline of relevance-first design.
When a slide, when a flipchart, when nothing on screen at all.
The 4 facilitation moves for the talker, the silent one, the cynic, the late arrival.
Post-session reflection, pulse feedback, iteration — the discipline that takes a v1 session to a v3 session in 90 days.
Full-day format shown. The half-day version focuses on the morning blocks with a condensed live round at the end.
Genuinely the first time I've left a coaching course able to do it on Monday. The live rounds with feedback made the difference. My 1:1s have completely changed shape.
Pricing depends on group size, delivery mode (live online vs in-person) and whether we tailor the curriculum to your sector. Closed cohorts start from a few hundred pounds per delegate for half-day workshops and scale from there. Book a 15-minute discovery call and we'll give you a concrete figure within 24 hours.
Train the Trainer is a full-day workshop by design — the two live delivery rounds with practitioner feedback in the afternoon are what changes behaviour. A half-day version focused on session design and adult learning principles only (no live delivery) is available as a foundational session for L&D teams.
We're flexible. Most cohorts run with 10–20 delegates, but we regularly deliver for smaller groups of 2–4, particularly for senior teams or specialised sectors. The live coaching rounds work better with even numbers, but we'll make any group work.
Live online is our default and works well for coaching — breakout rooms make the practice rounds work cleanly. We also deliver in-person at your site or a venue you choose, particularly when the cohort already work in the same room.
Typical lead time from a first call to delivery is 2–4 weeks. We can move faster if you need to — the limiting factor is usually your calendar, not ours.
Yes. The frameworks (GROW, TGROW, observable behaviours) stay the same; the examples, exercises and case studies are tailored to your sector, tools and your team's real work. We discuss this on the discovery call and rebrief the practitioner before delivery.
Yes. Every delegate receives a CPD-certified digital certificate on completion. The certificate references the hours of learning and the frameworks covered, so it can be added directly to a CPD record for any chartered or professional body.
We allocate a TESS coaching practitioner based on your sector. All practitioners are independently qualified coaches (ILM Level 5 or equivalent) with active corporate coaching practices. We'll send the named practitioner's bio after the discovery call.
Two ways in. Book a 30-minute discovery call below, or fill out the form and we'll reply within 24 hours with cohort options for your group.