A Training and Development Manager makes sure people in an organization can do their jobs well, and keeps getting better at them. You find out where skills are missing, design or buy the right learning, run it through a team, and prove it worked in numbers leaders care about. No license is legally required. Most people (71%) hold a bachelor's degree, and about 21% hold a master's, but employers hire mostly on proof: a portfolio, measurable results, and experience leading projects. The path is: learn how adults learn, build real training as a specialist, then learn to manage people, budgets and
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Stage 1 of 4 · about 10 weeks
Learn how adults learn and the basic ADDIE cycle (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate). Practice writing clear learning objectives with Bloom's taxonomy verbs. Build one short lesson in PowerPoint or Google Slides, deliver it to a friend, and ask for feedback. Get comfortable with Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and practice speaking and writing clearly.
How adults learn and the ADDIE cycle
Every training decision you make later rests on two ideas: adults learn differently from children, and good training follows a process instead of starting with slides. Training managers are hired to solve work problems, not to make presentations.
Writing clear learning objectives with Bloom's taxonomy
An objective is the promise of the training. If it is vague, you cannot design the lesson or test it. Hiring managers look at objectives in your portfolio first because they show how you think.
Building and delivering a short lesson
Training managers are judged by whether people actually learn. Building and teaching one real lesson, then getting honest feedback, is the fastest way to learn what works and gives you your first portfolio piece.
Office tools: Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Training managers live in these tools: handouts and manuals in Word, attendance and budgets and survey results in Excel, and presentations in PowerPoint. Fluency makes everything else faster.
Speaking and writing clearly
Training is communication. Your top O*NET skills include Speaking, Writing, Active Listening and Reading Comprehension. If your message is unclear, even great content fails.
Then 3 more stages (about 164 weeks in all) with lessons, drills, projects, 10 interview questions with strong answers and free resources.