Bodhih's Certified Training Manager is a 3-day certification program for trainers, L&D professionals and subject-matter experts who manage training. It covers presence and fundamentals, client requirements, program design and content, delivery and monitoring effectiveness, with a certification assessment on day three. A live virtual option runs as six 3-hour sessions, followed by a 90-day application review.
- Delivered in person at your location or as live virtual sessions
- Designed with the ADDIE model and evaluated for behaviour change
- Offered by Bodhih since 2008 to 2,000+ organisations across 7 regions
Where and how: certified training manager certification as an in-person workshop in Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune and Kolkata; as a live online course; or delivered overseas in Dubai, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Last reviewed by Siddharthan VGJ, Founder · Bodhih Training, Bengaluru
Training Manager certification is Bodhih’s flagship program for equipping Industry’s blue chip trainers with latest delivery skills and educational technologies.
The scope of Training Manager certification continues to grow exponentially in the industry. Organizations feel the need to bring in more and more trainers from their internal ranks as these trusted employees have proven themselves in other functions and departments and now are in a position to switch into a Training Manager position. It is in this context that companies desire to scale this group of professionals with a certified Training Manager program.
What is Bodhih’s program on Certified Training Manager skills about?
Bodhih’s participants work through various facets of Training Manager certification like presentation dynamics, training fundamentals, understanding client requirements, training design, content development, ensuring effective delivery, monitoring effectiveness, development as a trainer, special skills, and demonstration of live training delivery.
Bodhih’s program on Certified Training Manager begins by focussing on the factors impacting different presentation situations. Participants are instructed through role plays and class activity to get their points across effectively, and through individual exercises practice how to balance “saying the right thing” and “saying it right”. Videos are used to drive home the nuances of optimum engagement of audiences and learners are given tips to build on charisma and personal suaveness.
With the help of a facilitator led presentation and class discussion, learners discover the different approaches to training fundamentals, like, looking at the different ways in which one can go about executing a training and development intervention in any organization and knowing what works best. Learners are given insider steps to be able to choose from the pros and cons so as to identify the ideal approach in handing a training development assignment.
The seasoned facilitator, through insightful pointers lays open the basics of understanding client requirements by asking the right questions, framing objectives, and corresponding outcomes, fact finding techniques, questioning sequence and capturing information procedures. All this as the participants realise is critical to the process of becoming a Certified Training Manager.
Through group exercises, videos and facilitator led discussions, participants are thereafter exposed to the nuts and bolts of training design. The module delves deeper into the sections of customization learner content, drawing up in-depth training outlines with their assessments, and also understanding the impact of technology in activity design.
Bodhih’s Certified Training Manager responsibilities includes all practical aspects of content development like bringing the industry updates, applying fundamentals of instructional design, comprehending the steps in content creation, and adding world-class edge to the look and feel of the branding. This module led by a seasoned facilitator uses group activity, videos to highlight how participants can translate training design into actual content in the form of ppts, facilitator guides, participant manuals, handouts and also audio-video clips.
Bodhih’s certified Training Manager workshop brings the attention to latest techniques that ensure high quality delivery. Through class assessments, and debrief sessions, participants get a feel of learning theories, accelerated training delivery, delivery structure and its preparations, modelling and handling questions.
At Bodhih, Certified Training Manager is a popular program that is part of a larger Corporate skills portfolio. The session draws richly from contemporary research on adult learning techniques, advances made in social learning and also the latest tools available for creating blended learning.
The heart of Bodhih’s virtual trainer and Certified Training Manager skills workshop lies in the powerful session of consolidating learnings through customizing the principles to individual use.
The module that participants often relate to best is actually the one that is anchored around monitoring effectiveness. Learners, through individual activity, group exercises, facilitator led discussions, are exposed to different evaluation options that involves stakeholders, drawing up individual development plans, managing formal and informal feedback, refreshers and retraining sessions and monitoring objectives.
One large attraction that participants share from the Certified Training Manager certification is the individual attention they receive on their profiles – the various inputs they receive of pursuing relevant specialization, development their secret and special abilities, and being hand-held on the latest facilitation skills that are brought from contemporary research on management studies, academic findings and industry practices.
How would you gain from Certified Training Manager workshops at Bodhih?
Bodhih customizes its Certified Training Manager skills program along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.
In addition to the ADDIE model, the Certified Training Manager skills training takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.
The edge in Bodhih’s Certified Training Manager training comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights that ensures Certified Training Manager techniques are grasped and applied by chosen individuals. The long-term benefits are to institutionalise Certified Training Manager skills by embedding broader understanding of learning technologies available, the ROI component associated with learning and also, the changing nature of adult learning delivery.
What is Bodhih’s promise on Certified Training Manager skills course?
Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on virtual trainer and Certified Training Manager principles talk about enhanced design abilities that creates deeply impactful and game changing content harnessing advantages of the current social learning tools and the collective growth techniques.
Sample training plan: 3-day hands-on design
This three-day certification prepares trusted employees who are moving into Training Manager roles to run training as a function, not just deliver sessions. Participants work on their own organisation's training need from start to finish. They practise presenting, interview a client to uncover requirements, choose an intervention approach, design and build content, deliver a live segment, plan evaluation with stakeholders and draw up individual development plans for learners. Certification rests on a live training delivery and a training plan defended to a panel.
Participants can present with more impact, choose an approach to a training intervention and uncover a client's real requirement.
- 09:30–10:00From expert to Training ManagerEnergiser
- 10:00–11:00Saying it rightSkill drill
- 11:15–12:00Ways to run an interventionConcept burst
- 12:00–13:00The client interviewRole-play
- 13:45–14:45Your real requirementReal-play
- 14:45–15:30Objectives and outcomesPeer coaching
- 15:45–16:45Running the training calendarBusiness game
- 16:45–17:30Day one reflectionReflection
Participants can design a customised program, build its core content and deliver a segment with confidence.
- 09:30–10:00Best and worst sessionEnergiser
- 10:00–11:00Outline with assessmentsBuild sprint
- 11:15–12:15Content that carries the brandHands-on lab
- 12:15–13:00Content reviewGallery walk
- 13:45–14:30Delivery structure and accelerated techniquesDemo & practice
- 14:30–15:30Handling questions and tough momentsRole-play
- 15:45–16:45Rehearsal roundMicro-teach
- 16:45–17:30Day two reflectionReflection
Participants can plan evaluation and learner development with stakeholders and demonstrate live training delivery for certification.
- 09:30–10:00Warm-up and running orderEnergiser
- 10:00–11:00Certification delivery, group APresentation
- 11:15–12:15Certification delivery, group BPresentation
- 12:15–13:00Evaluation optionsCase clinic
- 13:45–14:30Individual development plansReal-play
- 14:30–15:30Capstone: training plan panelPresentation
- 15:45–16:30Your development as a Training ManagerPeer coaching
- 16:30–17:30My 90-day Training Manager planAction planning
Every session’s activity, timings, outputs and materials, plus pre-work, a 90-day reinforcement plan and how impact is measured. Free, emailed to you instantly.
Recommended: 3 days in person (09:30–17:30), or 6 × 3-hour live virtual sessions, with a certification assessment on day three and a 90-day application review. A sample design: every Bodhih program is customised after a short needs analysis.
How long is Certified Training Manager training?
The recommended design is three days in person, 09:30 to 17:30, or six live virtual sessions of three hours. Certification is assessed on the third day through a live training delivery and a training plan presented to a panel. A 90-day review follows.
What activities are included in Certified Training Manager training?
Participants present in timed rounds with video, interview a client whose real issue is hidden, run a year-long training calendar game, build content for their own program, handle tough questions, deliver a live certification segment and defend their training plan to a mock business panel.
Frequently asked questions
What is certified training manager?
Who is the Certified Training Manager program for?
Trainers, L&D professionals, managers and subject-matter experts. Bodhih tailors the examples, case studies and depth to your industry, culture and team level.
How long is the Certified Training Manager program?
Bodhih recommends 3 days in person (09:30–17:30), or 6 × 3-hour live virtual sessions, with a certification assessment on day three and a 90-day application review. The length can be shortened or extended after a needs analysis.
Can Certified Training Manager be delivered online?
Yes. Certified Training Manager can run in person at your location, as live virtual sessions for distributed or hybrid teams, or as a blended journey that adds self-paced learning on Bodhih.org between sessions.
How is the impact of Certified Training Manager measured?
Success measures for Certified Training Manager are agreed with you before design, as part of the ADDIE model. Bodhih can add pre- and post-program assessments on AssessAll and manager check-ins to track behaviour change.
