What should teachers look forward to in a training program? Part-3

Relationship management with the audience is a vital aspect of any training program. Watch carefully for their language style, choice of words, body language, interactive methods, questioning skills, answering efficacies, theatrical approaches, intents to impress and the sense of humour. These might help to open innovative ideas for you to be used in your own engagements.

Not all resource persons have competencies you or anyone else may expect. Everyone tends to operate within their own circle of competencies. A few of them develop certain dependencies of delivering their presentation. In the absence of such facilitations, they feel inadequate, stressed, and display a sense of linearity in their approach. Watch out for such symptoms which might help you to plan how to overcome similar challenges in your own universe.

Oftentimes, Resource persons tend to get disintegrated on the failure of technology, failure of electricity or for other reasons that provoke to disturb their preparedness. Their level of comfort with the environment, the people who organize, their personal emotions during the day do impact the quality of the program. It is indeed good to learn from such experiences so that you can navigate through such situations with confidence, conviction, comfort, and courage.

It is important to understand the trainers and resource persons are as human as we are; that they have their own working profiles and competencies which are unique. It is unfair to superimpose our designs and requirements over them. They are not present to meet our personal needs and requirements. It is quite possible that you may not agree with their views, opinions, data, interpretations, and other communications. It is always good to acknowledge them with humility and politely. They may be brought to their attention in a polite manner during the program or later in such a way that their ego is neither hurt nor destroyed. Being generous to one who parts with their own knowledge is an expression of gratitude.

It is a good practice to take time with them and hold a conversation. Such personal dialogues provide opportunities for further learning as they provide much needed explanations and narratives to concepts, statements, experiences they have highlighted during the program. It helps a bridge to share subjective experiences and reflect on them with a third eye.