Basics
New Facilitator Guide Best Practices
Seven Ways to Leverage the Power of LeaderGuide Pro
Overview
LeaderGuide Pro is designed to make it easy to create a facilitator guide or participant guide. All you have to do is:
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click New on the LeaderGuide Pro ribbon and
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click OK as you move through the setup prompts
With that said, to leverage the true power of LeaderGuide Pro
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take a few minutes to understand the options you will be presented with, and
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map out what you need to build
This will allow you to make setup choices that will streamline your development work
Successful Users Do These Things
#1 Learn the Lingo
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Learn the key words and phrases for the LeaderGuide Pro actions and outcomes
#2 Know Your Options
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Start a new Facilitator Guide using each of the different layout and Collection options to see which ones will best meet your needs
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Learn how the guidebooks are organized to understand how to add your content
#3 Have a Course Outline
The Start a New Guidebook routine includes the option to
Take advantage of this option to get a big jump start on the build out of your new guidebook
Modules and Lessons correlate to:
- your course outline topics and subtopics
- and they create the main body of your guidebooks
Dropping in at least an initial course outline helps you:
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order your thoughts and
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work more productively and
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assign team members guidebook
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portions to build or review
#4 Save your Outline with the Guidebook Design Template
You can enter your course outline into the Guidebook Design Template wizard as a first step - before you start a new guidebook
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This allows you to focus on adding your outline without the pressure of creating a new guidebook
After entering your outline you will save it as a Custom Template within the Guidebook Design Template wizard
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This allows you to move through the start a new guidebook process efficiently
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And you can easily create new outlines based on your requirements
#5 Have your PowerPoint file ready to use
If you intend to start the build of your guidebook from PowerPoint
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Have the correct PowerPoint file open and cleaned up
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Make a note of how the slides are to be disbursed across your Modules and Lessons
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Decide what you will be importing:
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just slide images
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slides and notes
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the text from the slides
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#6 Set your Preferences
Make LeaderGuide Pro your own by setting global preferences that will automatically apply every time you use the software
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Upload your logo, to appear on your cover pages
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Add your Copyright information, to appear on the Acknowledgements pages
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Edit the Facilitator Guide column headings that appear on Lesson pages
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Set your Preferred Collection to apply when you start a new Guidebook & more
#7 Understand the LGP Styles
The LGP Styles play a key role in supporting the proper functioning of the LeaderGuide Pro software
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Learn about the LGP Styles and how to make changes in a way that preserves the the LeaderGuide Pro functionality