07/10/2022
A depression on a road surface cause by heavy traffic becomes an eventual pothole. A reason is the underlying water in the soil structure that weakens it.
I've had 5 MAJOR POTHOLES in my professional career as a trainer in my younger days, which today have made me a better professional and valuable nuggets of learning professionally and personally. I'd like to just journal them here and see if it can mean something for any of you. Feel free to share what resonates with you withing and beyond my own Potholes.
1. The Feedback rules the experience.
Oh what score will I get.? Was the primary agenda of trainings. Anything less than a 4.8 brought an immediate dent and kept becoming a pothole of self doubt, fakeism and false ego
2. The client is the messiah.
Whatever and however the client wants the training to be done, let's do it that way. Cause of we don't then what of they stop giving us business. What if I'm not liked by the client or what if good things aren't told about me to my manager? The pothole of fear and insecurity.
3. The participants must be happy at all costs.
Another pothole of pointless games, no honest feedback, no nudging them, making sure I don't disagree with them and ensuring I have all answers to their questions upto their satisfaction.
If you ask me who I am today as a trainer or a catch would be totally a pole apart of who I was. And I guess that was then and this is now and neither right or wrong in their own accord.
My biggest learning from these pothole gurus, your role as a trainer is to add value to the learners by helping them developing their autonomy and capacity. It's not to change them, not impress them and not to judge them bybwhat you hear of their stakeholders.
THANK YOU POTHOLES FOR TEACHING US TO BE CAREFUL DRIVERS.
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