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More on training

Monday 26th February 2007 16:59 in Work | 50 views logged | No comments

A trainer said to me recently, when discussing our job:

“Well, I think the most important thing is that at the end of the day everybody has enjoyed themselves.”

It wasn’t a suitable time for me to say so but, leaving aside the cliché, I completely disagree. I think we should, of course, try to make the training enjoyable for people – and the trainees play a role in this too – but in my view the most important thing is that people learn what they came there to learn. It is easy for trainers to turn into entertainers, and if I came in seeking precision knoweldge in a field, and having paid a lot of money for it, I think I’d find too much of that inappropriate.

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