A Simple Guide for Planning Effective Online Training
You don’t need a background in instructional design to provide meaningful training. This free workbook walks you through a 3-step process to design clear, relevant training sessions your team can actually use—and learn from.
What You’ll Get
The Training Design Workbook helps you:
- Focus your training by identifying the outcome it should achieve
- Choose the right assessment methods to confirm learning
- Organize your lessons to keep them relevant, engaging, and practical
Whether you’re onboarding new hires, training volunteers, or documenting internal processes, this guide helps you map out your training clearly from the start—without guesswork. Keep reading to learn more. ↓
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Why It's Useful
Training is often time-consuming to create, hard to keep updated, or just… not that effective. This workbook makes it easier to:
- Define clear learning goals
- Avoid wasting time on content that doesn’t matter
- Create short lessons your team can absorb and apply
Developed for leaders and managers at mission-driven organizations, this tool is perfect for anyone wearing the “trainer” hat (even if it’s not in your job title).
What's Inside
- Fillable worksheets for setting learning goals and writing objectives
- Examples that guide you through each step
- Charts with action verbs and assessment ideas
- Planning templates you can reuse again and again
You’ll achieve a solid outline you can use to build or improve your training—whether you do it on your own or use a platform like Niche Academy.

Ready to make training easier and more effective?
This workbook outlines the same approach we use when designing tutorials.
It’s practical, easy to follow, and ready to help you get started.