TOT 99: Some Guidelines for Trainers

Do not compete

Training is essentially a Team Work. The trainer should not aim to compete with another trainer. The goal is not to out beat one another. The objective is to take the training forward hand in hand. The aim should not be to compete with another trainer but to give one’s best. Surrendering to the cause rather than to selfish expectations will slowly take away the pressure (if any) from within inducing one to compete with another. Those who work for a genuine cause always come up. 

Why should one avoid the tendency to compete? 

• Ultimately one has to run one’s own race.
• Thought of competing or overpowering will create internal pressure.
• “The ease”, moves away from the trainer, and the trainer’s performance falls down.
• The natural flow of thoughts gets obstructed. 

When a trainer comes across any other trainer who has made a remarkable mark in the field of training, the following can be done:

Try to emulate

Follow such a trainer (a) Observe (b) Learn (c) Inculcate (d) emulate 

Action by action

Take forward one step at a time. (a) Best opening statement (b) three minutes’ talk on any topic or subtopic (c) One best relevant example presented in a very short span of time etc.
No one can become a trainer overnight. It is always action by action. Despite being recognized as a trainer, if one wants to continue to be in the field, he/she has to work hard on oneself. Action by action he/she can grow and lead.

Analyse

Why have you not achieved the desired progress?

What makes the other person a better trainer than you?

Replace frustration with hard work towards excellence.

“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”

Archilochus
Greek Lyric Poet

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