E-learning initiatives have become increasingly prevalent in the last few years as human performance technology practitioners look for ways to lower costs and increase learning effectiveness. For both fiscal and safety reasons, organizations are much less sanguine about flying both learners and facilitators to learning activities. A business downturn motivates the investigation of alternative efficient ways to deliver training interventions. This article provides training administrators and the trainers of synchronous e-learning facilitators with a framework they can use to build an effective training program for their synchronous e-learning facilitators. New facilitators may use the information to help determine what they need to learn to make themselves effective e-learning instructors.