- Course Overview: LeaderGuide Pro Fundamentals
- Module 1: Introduction
- Lesson 1 : What LeaderGuide Pro Does
What LeaderGuide Pro Does
And How It Helps Instructional Designers and Developers
Overview
LeaderGuide Pro is a powerful, multifaceted software tool specifically designed to build Instructor-led Training.
LeaderGuide Pro runs within Word and interacts robustly with PowerPoint to:
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Create consistent, professionally formatted Facilitator Guides and Participant Guides.
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To support Instructor-Led Training (ILT) and Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT).
Developed by industry professionals
LeaderGuide Pro addresses the unique challenges faced by instructional designers and developers when creating Instructor-led Training, including:
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Multiple contributors using different styles of writing, organizing and lay out
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Varying levels of expertise in Word and PowerPoint, the base programs used to create ILT
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Difficulty editing, revising, maintaining and repurposing materials
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No consistent standards for document structure, organization, layout, voice, graphics
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Unrealistic development timeframes and budget
What LeaderGuide Pro Does to Address these Challenges
Creates two types of instructional guidebooks:
Facilitator Guide
To serve instructors as:
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a study guide, and
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a delivery roadmap
Participant Guide
To support learners with:
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key points
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instructional exercises
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capture space for notes
Why Two Guidebooks?
Facilitator Guide
The master course resource
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Contains everything instructors need to prepare for and deliver the training

Participant Guide
A workbook and reference resource
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To enhance learner engagement and support knowledge retention

What else LeaderGuide Pro Does to Address these Challenges
Extracts new guidebooks from existing guidebooks
Extracts
Extract a Participant Guide from a Facilitator Guide
Extract a Facilitator Guide from a Participant Guide
How this helps
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Do the bulk of your work once, in your master document (Facilitator Guide)
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Enable the ability to sync content changes from one guidebook to another
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Enable the ability to sync Participant Guide page number references into the Facilitator Guide
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Ensure consistency

What more LeaderGuide Pro Does to Address these Challenges
A lot! Take a look ...
Select an option below:
- Creates Reusable Parts
- Formats for You
- Applies Your Styles & Branding
- Interacts with PowerPoint
Applies Your Styles and Branding
Customize the Templates
Use Parts to easily create reusable custom templates with your:
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Logo
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Colors
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Fonts
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Formatting
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Icons
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Graphics
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Legal Notices
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Default Text
How this helps
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Customize the LeaderGuide Pro smart templates to meet your brand requirements
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Share your custom templates with everyone on your team
Formats for You
Builds consistently structured & professionally formatted Facilitator Guides and Participant Guides
Use the Start a New Guidebook Wizard to:
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Build consistently structured Facilitator Guides and Participant Guides
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Apply a professionally formatted Style guide
How this helps
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Allows you to focus on content while LeaderGuide Pro handles formatting and page layouts.
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Your Facilitator Guides and participant materials are structured and formatted consistently, no matter who creates them.
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Work at least 50% faster because so much of the formatting and page layout work is automated.
Formats for You
Easily insert icons specifically designed to cue instructor actions.
Use Content Blocks to:
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Insert icons to visually cue Facilitator actions like Say, Do, Ask, Key Points, etc.
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Consistently chunk content to make it easy for the Facilitator to manage during the live delivery
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Build extractable Assessments, Case Studies and Handouts
How this helps
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Your Lesson pages are visually easy to follow
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Your Content Blocks provide at-a-glance guidance
Formats for You
EASILY import & format graphic files and content from Word docs
Use Insert Pictures and Text Objects into Existing Blocks to:
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Import, anchor, label and properly size image files
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Import multiple images at once if needed
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Import text and objects from other Word documents
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Move through a document to mark and import multiple excerpts at once if needed
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How this helps:
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Saves time
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Eliminates headaches
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Ensures consistency
Formats for You
Build and update Tables of Contents
Use Update All Fields to:
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Add to and update the Table of Contents that LeaderGuide Pro automatically includes in every Guidebook
How this helps
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Saves time - all you have to do is click a button
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Builds a professional Table of Contents that you can navigate from
Interacts Robustly with PowerPoint
Take Control of How You Use PowerPoint
Use Special>PowerPoint Images to:
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Import PowerPoint slides
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Import PowerPoint notes
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Import PowerPoint slide text
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Replace PowerPoint slides
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Create PowerPoint slides from within a Facilitator or Participant
How this helps
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Saves time - no more copying and pasting
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Ensures consistency
Creates reusable parts
Use the Start a New Guidebook Wizard to:
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Create stand-alone Content Parts (Modules and Lessons)
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Once built out, use Librarian to insert these saved Modules and Lessons into the full guidebook.
How this helps
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Your reusable Parts are automatically structured and formatted consistently, no matter who creates them.
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This handles one of the big problems in projects with multiple developers.
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Working in a portion of the overall facilitator guide allows you to work in smaller file, which can eliminate headaches.
Create reusable parts
Use Librarian to:
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Archive Modules and Lessons from existing Guidebooks (save a copy)
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Insert Archived Modules and Lessons into other Guidebooks
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Reorder Modules and Lessons
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Save Course Outlines for reuse in New Guidebooks
Create Reusable Parts
Use Extract to:
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Extract Case Studies
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Extract Handouts
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Extract Assessments
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Extract Timed Agendas
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Extract portions of text and images
How this helps:
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Saves time
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Ensures consistency
Create reusable parts
Use Attach to:
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Attach a new Collection to an existing Guidebook to apply a different look and feel
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Attach a Collection to a new, blank Word document to begin creating Modules and Lessons