Putting Passion Back Into Corporate Training

I found an interesting article written by Sunder Ramachandran. The title of the article is, "Do you have what it takes to be a Corporate Trainer?"

I would like to highlight an important aspect that I feel is necessary for a success factor in this type of field. The point about Training vs. Teaching!

Teaching - present information via classroom lecture or power point presentation.

Training - Motivate, involve, restructure or simple stated from the article, "provides people with the tools and skills they need either to change their behavior."

As most trainers in the industry work with other working adults already in the field they would have to "deal with mature adult audiences who have their own experiences and perceptions." This right here really draws the line between teaching and training, training employees to develop new ways to do things.

Creating new habits or changing is always easier said than done in most respects.

Another highlight that I see which really identifies if an individual is ready to become a trainer is these very conditioned words presented in the article and they are. "Skills required for a career in training:
Trainers need to possess a natural ease in dealing with people, an ability to present themselves with confidence, speak before a large audience with conviction, a mature thought process to create training material relevant to their audience, spontaneity to respond to difficult situations with ease, a good sense of humor, loads of enthusiasm and most importantly a passion for the subject matter that is being presented."

Speaking from my own experiences, as I’ve been in the teaching/training environment for the past year, thank JIU… But back on topic… I would say that it definitely take a lot of self motivation, commitment, flexibility and down right passion to drive and influence other individual to adopt or even to accept the need for change. In the beginning, when I am in training mode, for my class I break even one down to the point that they know that they have different weaknesses; which every individual does, and I ask them to share with the class.. The all know that they are there to work on what ever weakness they have, all in efforts to better them selves. I definitely have seen an impact on my influences and management of the change process for these young adults, other mature adults who have been out of school for 20-25 years. I tried to keep it short…. Let me know what you think.

Best regards,
Shaun Manzano

Reference:
Sunder Ramachandran (2007), Do you have what it takes to be a Corporate Trainer?, retrieved from web site,
http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2007/sep/28corp.htm