Our ready-to-deliver training course materials include everything you need to run a professional workshop — fully editable and instantly downloadable. Browse our full range of training course materials.
So what exactly is included in the training materials packages you might be wondering? When you buy them online, they are packaged together as a zipped downloadable file that you receive access to once you have made your purchase (see the FAQ page for an explanation of how to download your package after payment). Each kit includes the following.
If you’re comparing ready-made training kits before buying, see our guide to buying off-the-shelf training materials.
What’s Included in Each Training Materials Package?
Every editable course materials pack includes:
- ✔️ Fully editable PowerPoint slides (20–90 slides depending on duration and training topic)
- ✔️ A detailed Trainer’s Manual with step-by-step guidance
- ✔️ A Participant Workbook
- ✔️ All handouts and course forms (sign-in sheet, feedback form, prep checklist)
- ✔️ Training day exercises and activities
- ✔️ A Certificate of Attendance
- ✔️ Online teaching guidance (10-page PDF)
These are ready-to-deliver, editable training course materials designed for trainers, HR professionals, consultants, and educators to run their own in-house workshops. We do not deliver the training — you do.
Everything is supplied in both editable MS Word and PowerPoint format, plus PDF versions for easy distribution.
If you’re comparing different training materials packages, you might also find these 10 tips for buying customizable training materials useful.
What’s Included in the Downloadable Course Materials?
1. PowerPoint Slides
This is an example from our Delegation Skills training package.
The number of slides on the PowerPoint will depend on whether you are buying a 2-hour, 1/2-day, 1-day, or 2-day training package. Typically, it ranges from 20 to 90 slides (depending on the topic).
The PowerPoint slides are fully customizable, and they include guidance notes for trainers at the bottom of each slide.
For activities, there are also some notes on how to run the activity online (in case you also need this information).
Whether you are a training coordinator or facilitator, university lecturer, Human Resources Manager, or someone teaching college students, these teaching and training materials provide everything you need to run workshops. The lesson plans are included for the training, with full trainer notes at the bottom of each slide.
2. Trainer’s Manual
As the trainer, you will understandably need guidance and a clear understanding of how to run the training day and the trainer’s manual provides full guidance.
To give you an idea of the number of pages, for the 1/2-day ‘Delegation Skills’ course, it is 38 pages.
3. Participant Workbook
We include a participant workbook in each package so that the participants can use it during the training.
These workbooks are designed so that you can easily print them before the training day, and they include useful information for participants, including a reminder of all they have learned, space for them to write down notes, further resources, and so on.
4. Handouts and All Forms You Will Need
Each package also includes:
- Training day course attendance sign-in form so that participants can sign in as they arrive.
- Trainer’s pre-course preparation guidance.
- Feedback form so that you can gather very valuable feedback on how the course went.
- Notes for teaching this course online (just in case you wish to teach it this way). You can, by the way, also read our online teaching guides.
5. Exercises and Activities
The games and activities, such as icebreakers and team-building games, are in the PowerPoint slides and detailed in the trainer notes at the bottom of the slide.
The exercises are also detailed in the Trainer’s Manual and Participant Workbook. You might also enjoy these 21 free icebreakers here for online teaching.
In order to ensure that your training flows seamlessly, a number of activities and class exercises are planned and included in this training pack.
6. Certificate of Attendance
Included with each course package is a certificate that you, as the trainer or facilitator, can either complete electronically and email to the participants or print and manually complete.
So if you wish (or if the participant requests one), you can provide them with a course completion certificate.
How Are the Course Materials Delivered?
Immediately after purchase, you receive an email with a secure download link. The full training package is delivered as a zipped folder containing editable Word, PowerPoint, and PDF files.
Click the download link, and you can download all the files you need to run the course you’ve bought.
Can I Customize and Reuse the Training Materials?
Yes. The PowerPoint slides and Word documents are fully editable, so you can add your own branding, adapt the content, and tailor the materials to your audience. You can reuse the materials for your own in-house training or when delivering training to clients. The materials are for training delivery and cannot be resold as training materials.
What Files Are Included in the Download?
Inside the folders, you will see:
Example MS Word, PowerPoint Files & Teaching Guide Folder
In one folder, you will find files such as those you see below (example from the Delegation Skills course).
PDFs Example
Inside the PDFs folder, you will find files similar to this (an example from our Delegation Skills course).
7. Online Trainer Notes
You might have noticed that in both folders shown above, there is a PDF called ‘Online Teaching Guide’.
This 10-page PDF explains how you can use our teaching materials if you are teaching online, and the document includes some pointers to find more online teaching information.
Most people use our training course materials for teaching in classrooms in person (offline), but you can also use our training course for online teaching, too, if you want to. You can also find similar information here on using our course materials to teach online.
If you have any questions at all about our course materials packages, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Examples of Training Materials
If you are looking for an example of training materials, then you can find a range of soft skills packages in the image below that are classic training materials.
The most popular types of training materials include:
- Growth mindset course materials – for understanding how to think with development and growth in mind for oneself, and to help others as a manager in the workplace.
- Mentoring skills corporate training materials for trainers – aimed at teaching managers effective techniques for getting employees to mentor others in the workplace.
- Dealing with Office Politics – these training materials for employees help supervisors and managers to be trained in understanding how to manage problems that can occur in the office.
- Another very popular set of employee training materials is the Conflict and Resolution Strategies teaching materials, – which target helping leaders to deal with conflict at work.
Developing Training Materials
If you are interested in creating training materials yourself, then we have a couple of useful guides that we have already written that you might like to check out.
- 9 Tips for designing PowerPoint slides for employee training
- 7 Tips for designing a training program yourself, and how to develop training materials
- This is also an interesting article regarding design and instructional materials, and here.
What is instructional design?
Instructional design is the structured process of designing materials for teaching or providing training. Here’s an article on instructional design to learn more…
Do the training resources include activities?
Yes, course materials for employee training will usually include activities to make the training more interesting, to break up the teaching, and to better engage participants.
Where can I get free training games?
You can find free training games to include in your own teaching materials for training adult learners via our free training games page.
