Monday, 14 February 2011

Customise training sessions

I have recently gone and am still going through a bit of a metamorphosis in the way I deliver training sessions. Gone is the structured session following a lesson plan stating goals and objectives, in is a learner reactive approach.

It is much harder to achieve as a trainer but seriously more beneficial as a learner. How does it work?

I have loose structure to start with and a lot of useable examples from a range of levels and experience. The learner is interviewed prior to the session starting, sometimes on the day, with the aim of identifying skill gaps and potential time saving procedures. The sessions are far more interactive and job specific. It is limited to smaller groups and usually from the same company but it really works, even though it breaks a lot of the more established training conventions a better service is delivered.

Thursday, 3 February 2011

What Christians

Why do Christians use their faith to excuse impolite abnormal irrational behaviour?  It's not Christian? Oh really, I thought it was you being ignorant.  I didn't realise that you are taught to be like that in the Bible.  Is that true?  Of course not, people make rules for themselves to suit themself.  God didn't, Jesus didn't and we shouldn't churches are full of self-righteous people sitting in judgement of others, people nodding in agreement with the pastor but not identifying anything spoken about to their own position.  They see faults only in others.  God help us all.