The Augmented Trainer

It's 1 a.m., the session starts at nine, and slide 34 still says "find a better example."

If you train people for a living, you know that night. The problem is rarely your skill. It's everything around the training itself: the vague request from the client, the course outline, the handouts, the quiz, the satisfaction survey, and the paperwork a quality review will ask for.

The Augmented Trainer shows you how to hand a large part of that load to Claude AI while keeping your own judgment in charge. It follows a course from the first client request to the final review, in the order you actually work.

Claude won't run your session for you. It takes the blank page, the first draft and the tedious formatting off your desk, so you can spend your time on the part only you can do: the people in the room.

Designing. Turn a fuzzy "we need something on management" into a real training brief, then into a course outline with a clear throughline. Produce your materials without drowning in content, and adapt one module for learners who arrive with very different levels or needs.

Facilitating. Prepare for what usually goes wrong, use Claude during a session without losing the room, and rebuild the energy of a live group in a virtual classroom.

Assessing. Write assessments that measure what people learned, not what they remember for ten minutes. Get your satisfaction surveys to tell you something useful, and let continuous improvement come out of work you're already doing.

Proving. Treat your quality file as a system instead of a punishment. Write honest course listings and published results you can back up, and let quotes, agreements and confirmations almost write themselves. Your records stay audit-ready as you go, instead of being rebuilt the night before.

Along the way, you'll learn the four building blocks of a good prompt, what Claude does well and where it gets things wrong, and the guardrails that protect confidentiality and learner data. The last chapter helps you build your own prompt library and gives you a starter kit of 15 ready-to-use prompts, one for each major stage of the job.

Inside this book:

• 17 chapters in five parts, from the first request to the quality review
• Prompts and templates you can copy and adapt to your own courses
• Plain advice on when not to trust the AI's answer
• Clear rules for handling learner data safely

It's written for independent trainers, corporate learning and development teams, instructional designers and training organizations that need to prove the quality of their work. You don't need any technical background. If you can write an email, you can use this book from the first chapter.

Get your evenings back.

Part 1. Getting Set Up: Claude, Your Training Partner

1. What Claude Does Well, What It Gets Wrong
2. The Four Building Blocks of a Good Prompt
3. Confidentiality and Learner Data

Part 2. Designing: Assisted Instructional Design
4. From Vague Request to Training Brief
5. Building the Course Outline
6. Producing Course Materials
7. Differentiating and Making Training Accessible

Part 3. Facilitating: Claude During and Around the Session
8. Preparing for the Unexpected
9. Relying on Claude Live Without Losing the Room
10. Remote and Virtual Classroom Training

Part 4. Assessing and Proving: Closing the Quality Loop
11. Assessing Learning Without Kidding Yourself
12. Making Satisfaction Surveys Tell You Something
13. Continuous Improvement as a By-Product

Part 5. Paperwork and Quality Reviews: Get Your Evenings Back
14. Your Quality File as a System
15. Honest Course Listings and Promises You Can Prove
16. Quotes, Agreements, and Confirmations
17. Your Prompt Library and the Trainer's Starter Kit

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