Trainer Tested
“Why do you feel that your team needs to be trained?” “What are the takeaways you expect from me?” These are the two questions I ask, when I am being hired as a trainer. Unlike physical regimens of soldiers and athletes, most managerial training sessions, irrespective of the settings, are often initiated and conducted without a defined purpose or end-state in mind. The question, what triggered the need to call a trainer, seldom elicits credible response. Training sessions, under such conditions are trainer-dependent and gravitate towards being ‘tales’ “full of sound and fury signifying nothing”. Such sessions are often recycled wide-spectrum templates. Training, if not specifically customized is no training. The state can be best compared to the difference between the well-fitted and the ill-fitted. Adequately customized training enables the trainee, to no end. My experience with performers, consistent and erratic, brilliance that flamed out and winners who s...