Training People

A student writes about her experience from a Train the Trainers Training

Three weeks ago, I had a training with a few coworkers from the Human Resources area and some other areas of my company. The training was called "Train the Trainers", and from it I learned about some tips and strategies of how to speak in front of a group, how to handle difficult situations during a training, such as: people falling asleep, speaking with each other or just not paying attention to the speaker.

The training implied two days of learning how to train people and I understood that if I had known those tips and strategies when I was working with training people in occupational health, I would have had more successful training sessions.

After these twoo days, my coworkers and I decided to replicate that training to the rest of the Human Resources group, so we prepared a five-hour-session to teach them all the things that we had learned, or at least the most important things that they would need to make a presentation in front of a group.

In fact, we had the opportunity to apply all the things that we had learned in the Train the Trainers training one week ago. Last Saturday, for the whole day, we gathered all the operators, who we call “colleagues”, in Hotel Radisson to receive information about Quality, Safety, KPI’s and Human Resources politics and benefits, which was the hardest part, because they started the day at 8:00 a.m. and the training that we gave was at 1:45 p.m., after lunch and in the middle of a very hot day. We had almost 500 people in the place, divided in groups of 30 people and, in some cases, using a very small room. I think that if we’d had a better air conditioner in the rooms, we would have maintained the people more concentrated on the things that we were trying to teach.

But at the end of the day, I think we reached our goal, which was to use strategies and apply some techniques to handle a group without fears or doubts and to give all the colleagues in the plant information about the new things that we are going to do for them and about their benefits during all this year.


Carolina
Company X