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Create professionally formatted facilitator guides & participant guides

LeaderGuide Pro™ is course authoring software that uses Microsoft Word as it's platform to automate the development of consistent, professionally formatted, icon-driven facilitator guides and participant guides (guidebooks) to support the delivery of Instructor-led Training (ILT) and Virtual ILT.

LeaderGuide Pro runs locally on the user’s computer to automate and add functionality to desktop versions of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. It significantly reduces the time it takes to build facilitator guides and participant guides, and it provides automated templates to ensure consistency and professional formatting. It includes robust, easy to use features that:

  • Automate the creation of new guidebooks – either from scratch or from existing documents

  • Import PowerPoint slides and notes

  • Import content and images from other sources

  • Sync content updates and page number references between companion documents

  • Automate the reformatting of entire documents to match new style requirements

  • Assign “answer text” styles that can be shown or hidden depending on which type of guidebook the text is in

  • and more.

LeaderGuide Pro constructs guidebooks from a professional set of included templates, style guides, and icons to produce materials that have a logical, consistent document structure with professional formatting and easy to recognize icons that quickly convey trainer actions. The included templates, style guides and icons are customizable.

LeaderGuide Pro facilitator guides include a preparation section followed by the instruction delivery section. The instruction delivery section is built with icon-driven modules and lessons that work like sheet music to enable facilitators to follow the delivery instructions at-a-glance and help ensure consistent delivery no matter who is teaching.

LeaderGuide Pro is a unique productivity tool for instructional designers and course developers, allowing them to complete their work up to 50% faster and produce consistent, professionally formatted facilitator guides and participant guides.

How many of these challenges do you face when working on ILT & VILT projects?

  1. Everyone builds facilitator guides and participant guides differently.

  2. Your source content is in a variety of formats.

  3. You are given a pile of PowerPoint files, all different.

  4. You get stuck reformatting content by hand, using up valuable time.

  5. Reviewers keep changing things and you get stuck editing and reformatting - again.

  6. Unlike your eLearning projects, you don’t have software tools dedicated to building facilitator guides and participant workbooks.

We can help you eliminate these problems.

We help training professionals like you do their best work by using LeaderGuide Pro — the only tool specifically designed to streamline and improve your Instructor-led Training & Virtual ILT development process.

You Get All of These Benefits when using LeaderGuide Pro

Smart Templates

Ensure consistency & organize content with automated templates.

Customize

Easily customize templates, styles, icons & more to your standards.

Import on Steroids

Import existing content & images, controlling placement, size, etc.

Sync Companion Documents

Sync page numbers & content changes between documents.

Change Your Appearance

Easily change styles, icons, layouts & more with a mouse click or two.

Ensure 508 Accessibility

Alt Text adds automatically to images & tables for screen readers … more

Customizable Style Guides

Included Professional Style Guides eliminate wasting time on formatting.

Set Your Preferences

Set up the basics to meet your needs once & they will automatically apply

Extract Anything

Extract participant guides & more from facilitator guides.

Add & Calculate Time

Add & track time and easily generate timed agendas.

Reuse Everything

Existing content is easy to re-format & insert into new documents.

Work Magic with Images

Place, size, label, and control images easily - alt text adds automatically.

Easy to Insert Icons

Visually cue Trainers & Producers with over 2,300 icons

Create Reusable Collections

Keep your customizations in folders that are easy to access & share

Import & Update PowerPoint

Import, update & even create slides & notes in your facilitator guides.

Build a Library of Chunks

Create a library of content chunks that are easy to customize & insert.

Keep an Audit Trail

Keep an audit trail of contributors, imports & exports.

Fall in Love with Lists

Special formats for numbered lists with images, answers, no numbers

Start using LeaderGuide Pro today

67% of all training professionals are challenged by limited resources

Whether you are limited by time, money, or staff we can help you overcome the challenges you are facing.

Watch Pat create a facilitator guide in 5 minutes!

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We know how much much work is involved in building professional training materials.

We started out as a custom design & development house and quickly learned just how challenging it can be to manage competing expectations, tight budgets, unrealistic timelines, and the vast array of individual approaches that come into play when building training.

That’s why we developed LeaderGuide Pro. It was originally just for us. It helped us manage costs, herd the cats, and delight customers.

LeaderGuide Pro was so successful that we turned it into a product we could share, and here we are 20 years later!

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I have been using LeaderGuide Pro for almost four years. It is one of the best tools I've used for instructor-led and virtual classroom materials development. The time savings is priceless. Also, the level of customer support I have received has been superb. Excellent value all around!

Mia Shaffer - Senior Instructional Design Consultant - Trinity Health

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