# 32 Claude Skills for Trainers and Facilitators, From the First Brief to the Follow-Up 32 Claude skills for one session or programme: frame it with the sponsor, fit the content to the clock, prepare the room, plan the difficult moments, write the follow-up and review the session, never the people. - Page: https://lantern.meet-polar-bear.com/skills/trainers-pack - Download: https://lantern.meet-polar-bear.com/skills/trainers-pack.zip - Source: https://github.com/polar-bear-org/claude-skills/tree/main/packs/trainers-pack - Price: free ## Install in Claude Code ``` /plugin marketplace add polar-bear-org/claude-skills /plugin install trainers-pack@polar-bear-skills ``` ## The 32 skills you get The set follows a session in seven stages: framing it, designing it, preparing the room, getting ready to run it, making it stick, reviewing and improving it, then taking it beyond one session. ### 1 · Frame it - **Session Purpose Brief** — use when: "The client wants a workshop" and nobody has said what must be different afterwards. Output: One-page brief, decide or inform, who must be in the room, the "should this be a session at all" verdict. - **Sponsor Kickoff Questions** — use when: The sponsor books the room, disappears, then asks months later why nothing changed. Output: Question guide for the sponsor call, success at work in their words, who does what before and after, one-page call note. - **Pre-Session Survey** — use when: You are designing for a group you have never met and all you have is a job title. Output: Five to seven questions for participants, the invitation line, an aggregate summary for the design. ### 2 · Design it - **Training Session Plan** — use when: The draft is a list of topics with a slide count, and practice is "if we have time". Output: Timed flow for a session that teaches a skill, the practice share, the scripted first five minutes, the energy logic. - **Workshop Agenda** — use when: The agenda is a list of topics and the group is supposed to leave with a decision. Output: Blocks marked diverge or converge, the exercise for each, group splits, a participant version and a facilitator version. - **Session Time Budget** — use when: The sponsor's deck is far too long for the slot and everything "must go in". Output: Minutes per outcome, real activity time, what stays, what moves, a cut list with reasons. - **Group Activity Bank** — use when: Every session ends up with the same two breakout formats, and the group can tell. Output: Two or three group methods per block as run lists, with source, virtual variant and fallback. - **Role-Play Practice Kit** — use when: Role play is the part everyone dreads, and the part the skill most depends on. Output: Learning points, a good and a poor model, role cards for trios, three ways to take part, observer notes, debrief. - **Virtual Session Redesign** — use when: The in-room day moves online as it is, and by the second hour people are answering email. Output: An in-room plan rebuilt for a video call, an interaction per block, breakout plan, producer role, plan B. ### 3 · Prepare the room - **Pre-Work and Invitation** — use when: People arrive not knowing why they are there, and nobody opens the pre-read. Output: Invitation, one small "come with" ask, a pre-read from your own material, a reminder, the team's messages. - **Workshop Run Sheet** — use when: The session is Thursday, the agenda is agreed, and nothing is runnable yet. Output: One table by clock time, pivot sentences, the move if it wobbles, kit list, two checklists. - **Trainer and Facilitator Guide** — use when: A colleague delivers your session next month and all they have is your slides. Output: Per segment its purpose, cue, key points, questions with good answers, activity setup, what to cut if late. - **Training Slide Outline** — use when: The deck is the session, and the trainer ends up reading it aloud. Output: Slide-by-slide outline with sentence headlines, one instruction slide per activity, cut list, accessibility notes. - **Participant Handout** — use when: The handout is the slides printed six to a page. Output: Guided notes, a worksheet per activity, the look-up content, the action plan page, an accessible layout. ### 4 · Run it - **Icebreakers and Session Openers** — use when: You need an opener that does not make people cringe. Output: Three openers tied to the first content block, a way to take part without personal disclosure, a virtual variant. - **Session Agreements and Consent** — use when: A recording tool joins the session by default and nobody was asked. Output: Working agreements the room edits, the confidentiality rule, consent wording for any recording or AI note-taking. - **Difficult Moments Plan** — use when: The room goes flat at 2pm and you are deciding what to do while forty people watch. Output: A pre-thought move for each situation, the sentence to say, the block that shrinks. - **Activity Debrief Questions** — use when: The exercise was lively and then the debrief is "so, how was that?". Output: A three-step question sequence per activity and for the close, follow-ups, a version for pairs. - **Wall and Board Capture** — use when: The session just ended and everything it produced is on a wall that will be wiped tonight. Output: A capture file by block from wall photos and notes, counts as counts, unreadable items logged, questions flagged. ### 5 · Make it stick - **If-Then Action Plan** — use when: The close is "one takeaway each" and by Monday nobody remembers theirs. Output: The page each participant fills, one "if this, then I will" plan, the first date, the obstacle, who they tell. - **Practice Assignment** — use when: People practised in the room and the first real attempt is left to chance. Output: One real task at work, what good looks like, a peer partner, how it comes back. - **Post-Session Follow-Up Sequence** — use when: The session went well, and then nothing happened. Output: The messages after the session, one job each, dates you set, a way to opt out. - **Spaced Retrieval Plan** — use when: People could do it in the room and freeze a month later. Output: The few things people must recall, a question or scenario for each, gaps that widen, results by question. - **Manager Briefing Note** — use when: The manager approved the day off and has no idea what it was for. Output: One short message to managers before and one after, the one question to ask, what they will not receive. - **Manager Check-In Guide** — use when: Learners go back to a manager who never asks what they learned. Output: Before and after conversations in a manager's words, check-ins in existing meetings, a barrier log of conditions. ### 6 · Review and improve - **Session Feedback Form** — use when: The form says everyone loved it and tells you nothing to change. Output: Four to six questions with concrete answer options, two open prompts, an aggregate summary. - **Session Summary and Decisions** — use when: The session was yesterday and you need to send something today. Output: The record against the brief, decisions and owners, themes with their items, vote counts, parking lot. - **Facilitator Retro** — use when: You run the same session next month and cannot remember what you swore to change. Output: Six questions in fifteen minutes, a half-page note, timing corrections per activity. - **Sponsor Debrief** — use when: The sponsor asks "so, how did it go?" and all you have is "they seemed engaged". Output: A one-page debrief for the sponsor call, aggregate themes, what the sponsor and managers do now, the decision asked. ### 7 · Beyond one session - **Training Proposal** — use when: A client asks for "a quote for a one-day workshop" on something that took years to build. Output: The situation in the client's words, the outcome, the design in stages, what the client provides, options with the price left blank. - **70-20-10 Programme Plan** — use when: The client wants the two-day course again, and you know two days will not do it. Output: Real assignments at work, coaching and peer pairs tied to them, live sessions placed before the work that uses them. - **Train-the-Trainer Handover** — use when: The programme has to run in five places and the plan is one walkthrough of the deck. Output: Delivery learning points, a modelled segment, teach-back slots, practice rounds, delivery notes, a readiness conversation. ## Workflows - **Frame the session** (The client wants a workshop and the outcome is still soft.) Session Purpose Brief → Sponsor Kickoff Questions → Pre-Session Survey - **Design around practice** (A list of topics has to become a timed session that fits the slot.) Training Session Plan → Workshop Agenda → Session Time Budget → Group Activity Bank → Role-Play Practice Kit → Virtual Session Redesign - **Prepare the room** (The agenda is agreed and nothing is runnable yet.) Pre-Work and Invitation → Workshop Run Sheet → Trainer and Facilitator Guide → Training Slide Outline → Participant Handout - **Get ready to run it** (The day is close and you want the start, the agreements and the hard moments thought through.) Icebreakers and Session Openers → Session Agreements and Consent → Difficult Moments Plan → Activity Debrief Questions - **Make it stick** (The session went well and you want something to happen at work afterwards.) If-Then Action Plan → Practice Assignment → Post-Session Follow-Up Sequence → Spaced Retrieval Plan → Manager Briefing Note → Manager Check-In Guide - **Send the record** (The session just ended and everything it produced is on the wall.) Wall and Board Capture → Session Summary and Decisions → Post-Session Follow-Up Sequence - **Review and go further** (The sponsor asks how it went, and the answer may open a next piece of work.) Session Feedback Form → Facilitator Retro → Sponsor Debrief → Training Proposal → 70-20-10 Programme Plan → Train-the-Trainer Handover ## The quality bar - One method, applied properly: each skill uses the real mechanics of its method (the order of the questions, the blocks, the rounds, the columns), not a generic “gather, analyse, recommend” - It tells you where it breaks: every skill says when not to use it and which skill here fits instead - Same shape every time: a fixed output template, a short “done when” check, and a decision a named person makes - No invented facts: no made-up numbers, benchmarks, quotes or results, and no forgetting or retention statistic anywhere. Every duration, gap and threshold is yours to set; missing data becomes a bracketed placeholder - A person checks what participants will see: activities, slides, handouts and role plays carry a check a trainer runs before they reach the room - Sessions are reviewed, people are not: feedback rates the session, never the trainer or a participant. Results are read in aggregate, small groups are suppressed, and nobody is sorted into a type - The red line: Claude prepares the session and the follow-up; you read the room and decide what happens in it, no participant is ever graded, ranked or profiled, and nothing is recorded without their consent ## Questions people ask ### What is in the Claude for Trainers and Facilitators pack? 32 Claude skills that follow one session or programme in seven stages: frame it, design it, prepare the room, run it, make it stick, review and improve, and go beyond one session. Each skill produces one artifact from one method. ### How do I install these Claude skills? In Claude Code, two lines install all 32 at once. In Claude.ai or Claude Desktop, download the zip, open Settings, Skills, Add, and upload the skills you want. Either way it takes about five minutes. ### Do I need Claude Code to use them? No. The skills work in Claude.ai, Claude Desktop and Claude Code. In the app you upload them yourself; in Claude Code one command installs the whole pack. ### Do the skills work with ChatGPT or other assistants? They are built as Claude Skills, and installing them is a Claude feature. Each one is a plain Markdown file, so you can read it and reuse the method elsewhere, but it will not load and trigger by itself outside Claude. ### Does Claude grade participants or record the session? No. Claude prepares the session and the follow-up; you read the room and decide what happens in it. No participant is ever graded, ranked or profiled, and nothing is recorded without their consent. ### Is the pack free? Yes. It is free to use inside your company and in client work, and not for resale. There is no signup: the download and the install command are on this page. ## About Written by Polar Bear (https://meet-polar-bear.com/). Published on Lantern (https://lantern.meet-polar-bear.com/), which turns your notes, documents and call transcripts into social post drafts you review and publish.