Training Trainers
Training Trainers
Some one has to train the trainer.
A lot is expected of trainers.
They have to deliver information or concepts or new ways of working into companies.
They often have to introduce an entire workforce to a new mission or set of company values.
People come to them with training needs or personal issues and they have to find or deliver the appropriate programme which will address these specific requests.
Many times it isn't even the individuals themselves who come to the training or HR department, but their managers, who often want staff members miraculously transformed.
Trainers have to balance the needs of the company.
- Which is to have staff working as efficiently and effectively as possible -
With the needs of the individual, which could be the same, or they could be substantially different.
Trainers need all kinds of skills: communication, counselling and group work. They have to be articulate, empathetic, professional, knowledgeable, trustworthy.
The best trainers have a lot of insight into other people's behaviour; and a good sense of humour helps as well.
In other words, good trainers are pretty special people.
Now, one thing we know happens to trainers.
They get so involved in their day to day responsibilities and activities that they don't take time out to develop their own skills.
Yet that's exactly what's needed to energise and inspire trainers' own work and personal development, and to widen their perspective.
By putting themselves back in the participant's chair they can get a fresh view of their work, as wells as support, affirmation and added resources to take back to their own training rooms.
They also (not unuseful this) get to spend some time with peers (who'll know exactly what they're talking about) to exchange ideas and experiences.
Training Trainers
