How to survive training, when you're conducting it!

1. Surviving Training – Part II
Counterintuitive factors behind successful training
Dushyant Shetty

2. Mission:
VISION AND MISSION
We enable people to learn better through collaborative platforms, enriched
content and strategic services. Our employees realize their dreams through
an inspiring and inclusive ecosystem and we provide our stakeholders with
benchmark returns.
Vision: 2015
We give our customers the world’s best integrated learning solution, our
employees are unique in their motivation and ability to innovate and all
stakeholders are beneficiaries of our success.
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3. SURVIVING TRAINING – PART II
Agenda
What to do in class
What NOT to do in class
Myths
A taxonomy of learners
Tips and Tricks

4. SURVIVING TRAINING – PART II
What NOT to do in class
Sell/Preach
Lie/Guess
Brag/Patronize
Discriminate/Take sides
Fall asleep/Switch off
Lose your composure/temper
Relinquish control/Oppress
Gossip/Complain
Make friends/enemies

5. SURVIVING TRAINING – PART II
Myths
A good trainer is always right
A good trainer never deviates from the
book
A good trainer is always serious
A good trainer never needs the help of
tools or resources
A good trainer is inaccessible

6. SURVIVING TRAINING – PART II
Taxonomy of learners
• Will idolize you and expect you to perform a miracle
The fan with each topic you start
• Wants to be first, will try to test your knowledge
The competitor more than his/her own
The floater • Just wants to get it done with
• Will oppose most things that are said, even in the
The nay-sayer book
• Will try to rally a consensus for conversations, lunch
The union-leader and exercises
The manipulator • Will politically maneuver through most situations
The leader • Will be the one showing the way for the others

7. SURVIVING TRAINING – PART II
• Tips and Tricks
Standup Comic Magician Rockstar
Role Model
Wear many hats…!!!
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8. SURVIVING TRAINING – PART II
• Tips and Tricks
Signs of trouble
All your students are talking, but not to you…
You have a long list of questions that you have promised to
answer but haven’t…
You have been proven wrong more than once in class and
haven’t recovered well…
Your least favorite topic is your students favorite
Your students have suggested a change in pace/technique
more than once
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9. SURVIVING TRAINING – PART II
• Tips and Tricks
Set high expectations, then surprise your students by
exceeding them
Spark up boring topics and bring passion into how you
deliver that knowledge
Tell them how to find the solution, don’t solve it for them
Target perception - You are the best person in the world
to be learning this subject from
Stop teaching, enhance learning, you’ll be surprised how
much you learn from each class
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10. THANK YOU