The Importance of Finding a Good Trainer - Part 2
I can not emphasize enough the importance of finding a good trainer.
If you have read my previous article on Part 1, you would know the tips you can get to find the trainer you are seeking for. In this article I would like to share with you what I have actually come to know on the type and character of a trainer which can certainly add value, honesty and integrity to participants sitting in a training workshop. My sharing below would be based on the experience I have gone through searching, speaking, watching and matching hundreds of trainers to customers.
Just a few months ago, we were doing a headhunting search to seek for a leadership trainer who can deliver a very unique traning for our customers junior level managers. Our primary role as a matchmaker is to headhunt, give our customer the first 3 best choice of trainers in the market and leave the decision up to the customer on which trainer they need, although we provide a good analysis on who the trainer is we still give the option to the customer to choose. Coming back to my experience, so my MatchMaking team was busilly gathering proposals from trainers and doing their background checks. After we had accumulated, we finally chose our best 3 trainers and submitted to our customer who was happy enough to meet the trainers. Before any presentation of the trainer to the customer, my MatchMaking team take an attempt to contact the trainer and brief the trainer about the customer and also remind them about the presentation. It just so happened that when my MatchMaking consultant contacted one particular trainer to remind him about the presentation date, that trainer actually yelled back and told not to call him back as it was irratating. To our amazement, we were totally shocked by this particular trainers response to my staf. We understood that not all trainers can really be honest with themselves or people around them.
This trainer that I am speaking about infact is a very short tempered trainer but still blows his own trumpet that he teaches the best leadership techniques differently from other trainers. Well, to summarise my experience here, the trainer did meet up with our customer but did not win this training. We have since learnt not to use certain trainers just because they are good but we then also considered many factors like the deceiving factor of self arrogance, disrecpecting lower level positions, often creates negative difficulties and backbites customers policies and attitudes.
So it is really important to have a trainer who will continue to work honestly to ensure a continued success!
Here are the Top Things to look for in a Trainer:
1. Trainers Open Doors and Help participants to Create Opportunities for Growth: A trainer who has already had the experience and connections can help open the doors of opportunity that participants don't know about yet or have access to.
2. Trainers Can Help you develop participants Abilities and Strengths: A good trainer will set you up to succeed, not leave you alone to fail. A good trainer should challenge you to go a step further in training and even though it may be costly a good trainer can give this for FREE should budget become an issue. Trainers should not make MONEY the main issue for a price to pay towards learning.
3. Trainers Set the Pace and are an Example: Trainers show you where to go and what to do. The will help you to stay motivated and be effective. Watch them and do what they do!
Hope you enjoyed and learn a few things from my article above.
Until my next article,
Sayonara!
Regards,
Cheryl
Regards,
Cheryl
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