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:
  • Create consistent, professionally formatted Facilitator Guides and Participant Guides.

  • 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:
  • Multiple contributors using different styles of writing, organizing and lay out

  • Varying levels of expertise in Word and PowerPoint, the base programs used to create ILT

  • Difficulty editing, revising, maintaining and repurposing materials

  • No consistent standards for document structure, organization, layout, voice, graphics

  • 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:

  • a study guide, and
  • a delivery roadmap
With clear, concise and complete information and directions.

Participant Guide

To support learners with:

  • key points
  • instructional exercises 
  • capture space for notes

 

Why Two Guidebooks?

Facilitator Guide

The master course resource

  • Contains everything instructors need to prepare for and deliver the training

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Participant Guide

A workbook and reference resource

  • To enhance learner engagement and support knowledge retention
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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

  1. Do the bulk of your work once, in your master document (Facilitator Guide)

  2. Enable the ability to sync content changes from one guidebook to another

  3. Enable the ability to sync Participant Guide page number references into the Facilitator Guide

  4. Ensure consistency

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What more LeaderGuide Pro Does to Address these Challenges

A lot! Take a look ...

Select an option below:
Parts Customize Options

Applies Your Styles and Branding

Customize the Templates

Use Parts to easily create reusable custom templates with your:
  • Logo

  • Colors

  • Fonts

  • Formatting

  • Icons

  • Graphics

  • Legal Notices

  • Default Text

How this helps
  • Customize the LeaderGuide Pro smart templates to meet your brand requirements

  • Share your custom templates with everyone on your team

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Formats for You

Builds consistently structured & professionally formatted Facilitator Guides and Participant Guides

Use the Start a New Guidebook Wizard to:
  • Build consistently structured Facilitator Guides and Participant Guides

  • Apply a professionally formatted Style guide

How this helps
  • Allows you to focus on content while LeaderGuide Pro handles formatting and page layouts.

  • Your Facilitator Guides and participant materials are structured and formatted consistently, no matter who creates them

  • Work at least 50% faster because so much of the formatting and page layout work is automated.

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Formats for You

Easily insert icons specifically designed to cue instructor actions.

Use Content Blocks to:
  • Insert icons to visually cue Facilitator actions like Say, Do, Ask, Key Points, etc.

  • Consistently chunk content to make it easy for the Facilitator to manage during the live delivery

  • Build extractable Assessments, Case Studies and Handouts

How this helps
  • Your Lesson pages are visually easy to follow 

  • Your Content Blocks provide at-a-glance guidance 

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Formats for You

EASILY import & format graphic files and content from Word docs

Use Insert Pictures and Text Objects into Existing Blocks to:
  • Import, anchor, label and properly size image files

    • Import multiple images at once if needed

  • Import text and objects from other Word documents

    • Move through a document to mark and import multiple excerpts at once if needed

How this helps:
  • Saves time

  • Eliminates headaches

  • Ensures consistency

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Formats for You

Build and update Tables of Contents

Use Update All Fields to:
  • Add to and update the Table of Contents that LeaderGuide Pro automatically includes in every Guidebook

How this helps
  • Saves time - all you have to do is click a button

  • Builds a professional Table of Contents that you can navigate from

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Interacts Robustly with PowerPoint

Take Control of How You Use PowerPoint

Use Special>PowerPoint Images to:
  • Import PowerPoint slides

  • Import PowerPoint notes

  • Import PowerPoint slide text

  • Replace PowerPoint slides

  • Create PowerPoint slides from within a Facilitator or Participant

How this helps
  • Saves time - no more copying and pasting

  • Ensures consistency

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Creates reusable parts

Use the Start a New Guidebook Wizard to:
  • Create stand-alone Content Parts (Modules and Lessons)

  • Once built out, use Librarian to insert these saved Modules and Lessons into the full guidebook.

How this helps
  • Your reusable Parts are automatically structured and formatted consistently, no matter who creates them.

  • This handles one of the big problems in projects with multiple developers.

  • Working in a portion of the overall facilitator guide allows you to work in smaller file, which can eliminate headaches.

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Create reusable parts

Use Librarian to:
  • Archive Modules and Lessons from existing Guidebooks (save a copy)

  • Insert Archived Modules and Lessons into other Guidebooks

  • Reorder Modules and Lessons

  • Save Course Outlines for reuse in New Guidebooks

Extracts

Create Reusable Parts

Use Extract to:
  • Extract Case Studies

  • Extract Handouts

  • Extract Assessments

  • Extract Timed Agendas

  • Extract portions of text and images

How this helps:
  • Saves time

  • Ensures consistency

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Create reusable parts

Use Attach to:
  • Attach a new Collection to an existing Guidebook to apply a different look and feel

  • Attach a Collection to a new, blank Word document to begin creating Modules and Lessons