- Am I saying that good delivery is all there is to training? No, I am not.
- Am I saying that delivery is all the users or delegates see? Yes, possibly.
- Am I saying that training is like magic, it just happens? No, I am not.
We trainers are consummate professionals. An immense amount of work goes on behind the scenes to make your training session go well.
Just like a football match/a 100m sprint/theatre play, the delivery is the fun and buzzy part of training that most people see or understand. So, when you think about training it is the doing you think about.
How do we get there?
The delivery is the show, the performance, the gala. Good trainers make it look easy; they achieve results saving you pain, time and money.
The depth of understanding and time taken to produce those learning interventions may well surprise.
https://www.td.org/insights/how-long-does-it-take-to-develop-one-hour-of-training-updated-for-2017
As you can see in the table for merely an hour’s worth of training the average is 38 hours.
Off the shelf a piece is learning for 8 hours could take another 3 days of re-development.
It takes time and consideration to develop meaningful and contextual tasks/concepts/scenarios and testing thereof. The days of the back of a fag packet or winging it are long gone for every industry and sector.
As systems seemingly get easier their implementation paradoxically is becoming more complex.
When new ways of working are introduced, we don’t always like them or understand them. The default human reaction is resistance. Mostly, we do not want to be pushed out of our comfort zone.
However, change is inevitable and often the engine of progress. Communication of the strategy is what the trainers do to make your users’ journey worthwhile, engaging and deliver traction.
