How many times have I heard ‘Training is Easy’

Anyone can be trainer, training is easy, anyone can to explain computer stuff.

There’s no great skill to helping people understand a new process, a new system.

Give them some handouts and they will be fine!

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Unfortunately this is something that we trainers hear every so often.

Talking to people can be easy, but training is about change –

  • helping people to understand something new or different
  • changing their minds about technology or processes
  • introducing new features and options
  • instilling new skills
  • translating technobabble into english
  • checking understanding

It’s not just ‘show and tell’ for a new skill, process or feature.

We (trainers) have to understand not only the new feature/command, but how to explain it to others; work out how to use it; then figure out how to relate it to those to be trained; how they will use it and finally how do we test their understanding.

A professional trainer will have a million questions, not just about the topic but all those questions that need to go around the learning – from the planning, to communications, to co-ordinating the physical room setup.

  • What facilities do you have for training?
  • What needs to be setup in the room for the training?
  • How many people need to be trained?
  • Do they all need the same training?
  • Is the system immediately available?
  • What support is being provided during and after training?
  • Will the sessions be on a live system, if so what’s the impact of false/bad data?

So you see, with a professional you’re getting someone who thinks of all (or at least most) of the questions, and aims to minimise any problems, while giving the best training that they can.

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Original version posted on MitshK Blog.

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