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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