𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 – 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
Today I am sharing one of my experiences in my early career days and also learning thereby as Trainer.
A group of 100 students, had to complete this course of soft skills training, which was made compulsory for their certification.
A big challenge for me – as according to me training doesn’t happen with such a big group, but the organization could not make any alterations there.
Here are certain techniques I used to manage the group:
1. Divided them in groups of 10, ensuring that the acquainted ones fall in different groups with unknown ones.
2. When I observed that the sincerity in approach towards training was lacking, I engaged them in activities where the difficulty levels were perceived by them as challenging scenarios.
3. Introduced a healthy competition among the 10 groups, where ultimately the friends were competing against each other and hence they all automatically took it positively.
4. Minimum use of lecture method and maximum use of participatory method with lots of activities and thought provoking questions.
5. In every group there are cooperative souls and witty ones as well. Making them interact, debate and helping them reach to the ‘greater common good’ and also use effective interpersonal communication styles, impacting their learning process automatically and consciously.
6. Being friendly but firm with them, not making it too democratic but also making some of the collective decisions, making them party to it.
7. Not using threat or punishment as a quick tool to my rescue… Instead making it a reward based program, making the training environment lively and full of enthusiasm.
My learning points were,
~ Being firm with the client to be restrictive to group size to max 25
~ Being definitive about the training modules and their execution. Not keeping it so open as it always runs a risk of going haywire
~ Being more equipped to handle unanticipated scenarios as it was my sheer luck that nothing really went wrong, considering the huge group size.
~ Training design, training methods & learning aids were thought of and weaved as well but the number of trainers had to be more to cater this bigger group.
~ Last, I learnt the importance of the journey from needs assessment to impact evaluation. As a trainer, it is my duty to follow this process… under any circumstances.
After all, ‘Experiences are the best Teachers’!
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