Week 9: Remembering Huxley

The desire to give an excellent presentation is quite natural.

The trainer will be at his/her best, the day on which this desire moves away from him/her naturally.  Every presentation by the trainer will be the best if the process has got woven so well into the very personality of the trainer. The desire to excel often disturbs actions and performance. On the training floor the trainer must keep in mind only what needs to be done in the present. To be free from “Performance pressure” is a quality to be inculcated by a trainer. Anxiety for the future, anxiety for the result of presentation brings down the level of excellence in a trainer. To overcome this disaster a trainer can replace the desire to give the best presentation with the following:

1. Desire to acquire more knowledge about the specific topics.
2. Desire to work hard on all the 4 quarters of good presentation, namely (a) Contents (b) Segmentation (c) Time management (d) Presentation skills.
3. Desire to practice /rehearse

Coupled with sincere, planned, and appropriate action on (1), (2) and (3).

A good presentation is the effect of the trainer’s discipline in meticulously working on all the four quarters of presentation. Anything constructive needs discipline.

English biologist and educator Thomas Henry Huxley said,

“Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation”.

It is again, Thomas Huxley who said,

“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”

Going by Huxley who said,

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something”

Any trainer at the beginning of one’s career as a trainer has to learn something about everything related to training. As the days go by, every trainer has to constantly try to learn everything about something which is part of the training curriculum and the training process.

Unfortunately, many of us stop at ‘learning something about something’ and leave it at that. Let us remember Huxley once more who said,

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”

Let us not take rest!!!!

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