This presentation was held as part of the SSHOC DARIAH Train-the-trainer RDM Bootcamp held in February 2021 (see Zenodo community sshocdariahtrainerrdmbootcamp) This upload contains the slides of the presentation for the didactics session held on the second day of the bootcamp. In this session, Kerstin Helbig (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) will take participants through the seven steps of concept development. Trainers can apply these steps to develop and improve their training and to maximise their training success.