TRAINING JOURNALISTS TO DELIVER FINANCIAL JOURNALISM WORKSHOPS

In today’s complex world of finance, it is too much to expect one journalists to cover all areas from economics to corporate valuation, and staff movement requires more mentoring for newcomers. The course teaches financial journalists how to train others in their special subjects; it is not intended to turn them into full-time trainers, but equip them with the skills to make presentations, coach and run one-day workshops to spread the knowledge of their skills around an organisation or newsroom.

Course Objectives 

After completing the course, participants can expect to be able to:

1. •Mentor newcomers into an organisation
   

2. •Coach staff to share skills
   

3. •Deliver presentations to small groups
   

4. •Build and lead one-day workshops
   

5. •Assemble facilitation and training models to create news plans
   

6. •Create material for on-line learning.
   

Skills addressed during the course

1. •Adult learning and learner types
   

2. •Learning objectives
   

3. •Ways to structure presentations and workshops
   

4. •Listening and speaking skills
   

5. •Delivering training
   

6. •Introducing coaching or mentoring processes
   

7. •Facilitating coaching and/or mentoring sessions.
   

Course Outline

The course is built around building a workshop. Participants will be asked to bring a specific unit of skill or knowledge that they want to impart to a newsroom or media organisation. Trainers help build the learning objectives and then assemble the appropriate method for delivery. In a series of practical workshops, participants refine their planned unit and are expected to undertake delivery both to the class and then on return to the workplace.

Pre-course work

Before attending this course participants will be asked to identify with a supervisor a meaningful project to develop through on course, collect appropriate material, and then agree a commitment to deliver the training workshop on completing the course.