The last step in planning a training program is the task of designing an appropriate training schedule. This means looking at the training inputs you want to provide, the time which you will need for each session and the overall timeframe of the workshop. It is often difficult to match up these elements. In most cases, the number of inputs envisaged is far too ambitious for the time given. The few days set aside for the workshop seem to be insufficient for all the topics one may want to offer to the trainees. In this context, it is better to reduce the number of topics than to overload the workshop. In either situation you will eventually have to leave out certain inputs, which you might feel are important. If you do this during the planning of the schedule, you have control over what gets left out. If however, you create an overcrowded schedule, you will simply have to leave out which ever inputs fall at the end of your program when you run out of time.

Would you be the one to reduce the number of topics or extend the time to cater the plan?