Dear All, I want to start my career as a soft skill trainer.Please guide me how can i start and what the process should be.
From India, Bangalore
From India, Bangalore
Dear Pradip,
Thanks for reply,but I want to be a trainer of soft skill,though I've an experience of 5+ years in Education industry in administration,but never worked as a trainer.Now i want to shift my career path to training.
Can any body guide.
From India, Bangalore
Thanks for reply,but I want to be a trainer of soft skill,though I've an experience of 5+ years in Education industry in administration,but never worked as a trainer.Now i want to shift my career path to training.
Can any body guide.
From India, Bangalore
Hi
At the outset let me compliment you on deciding to be a trainer.
If I were to use your communication above as a yardstick to assess your communication skills, I can safely assume that your communication skills are excellent because that is a critical to become a trainer. However, the heart and brains of the training still remains the domain knowledge but even the most knowledgeable person would fail miserably as a trainer without effective communications skills. If you are good communicator particularly a good public speaker, half your problem is solved. To further improve your communication skills find a local Toastmasters club in your city and join them.
To get the academic inputs on training you can do the course from Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) which you are already contemplating. Alternatively you can also attend some Train The Trainer (TTT) programs offered by private institutions. One of the institutions has already informed you about their program in the preceding reply.
To get going focus on those topics that you are familiar with, confident about, passionate about or have a good grounding in. Keep updating yourself by reading extensively and start outlining the broad course contents keeping in mind the type of audience you are likely to address. In particular pay attention to the type of exercise, examples, activities that you will use during the program to reinforce a point or make the learning relevant. I would also suggest that you attend some corporate training by professionals on topics of your interest to get a feel of how it is structured and delivered.
If you have no corporate training experience, ideally take a few sessions for post graduate students in colleges or for social service clubs like Lions and Rotary's so that you gain in experience and also can fine tune your material. Once you are confident, approach a few corporates and the first few training programs are vital for future reference and for your own confidence.
I would also invite you to visit the following Inspirational and Motivational Blogs which can also assist you in improving your vocabulary and communication skills.
www.actspot.wordpress.com - Over 91,500 views and 620 followers
www.poweract.blogspot.com - Over 27,500 views and 170 followers
Best Wishes
From India, Mumbai
490At the outset let me compliment you on deciding to be a trainer.
If I were to use your communication above as a yardstick to assess your communication skills, I can safely assume that your communication skills are excellent because that is a critical to become a trainer. However, the heart and brains of the training still remains the domain knowledge but even the most knowledgeable person would fail miserably as a trainer without effective communications skills. If you are good communicator particularly a good public speaker, half your problem is solved. To further improve your communication skills find a local Toastmasters club in your city and join them.
To get the academic inputs on training you can do the course from Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) which you are already contemplating. Alternatively you can also attend some Train The Trainer (TTT) programs offered by private institutions. One of the institutions has already informed you about their program in the preceding reply.
To get going focus on those topics that you are familiar with, confident about, passionate about or have a good grounding in. Keep updating yourself by reading extensively and start outlining the broad course contents keeping in mind the type of audience you are likely to address. In particular pay attention to the type of exercise, examples, activities that you will use during the program to reinforce a point or make the learning relevant. I would also suggest that you attend some corporate training by professionals on topics of your interest to get a feel of how it is structured and delivered.
If you have no corporate training experience, ideally take a few sessions for post graduate students in colleges or for social service clubs like Lions and Rotary's so that you gain in experience and also can fine tune your material. Once you are confident, approach a few corporates and the first few training programs are vital for future reference and for your own confidence.
I would also invite you to visit the following Inspirational and Motivational Blogs which can also assist you in improving your vocabulary and communication skills.
www.actspot.wordpress.com - Over 91,500 views and 620 followers
www.poweract.blogspot.com - Over 27,500 views and 170 followers
Best Wishes
From India, Mumbai
Dear Mr.Jacob, Thanks a lot for enlightening the path with proper guidance and sharing the treasure of knowledge. I’ll keep all this in my mind and will try to impliment.
From India, Bangalore
From India, Bangalore
Hi Prachii My Best Wishes to you in your quest to become an effective trainer. Let the New Year herald in a new and exciting career for you. Regards
From India, Mumbai
From India, Mumbai
Hello!! Even my situation is same like Prachi, however i want to pursue my career as trainer for sales/product into financial services industry... kindly guide me through
From India, Thana
From India, Thana
Hi Vijay
The reply given by me above should hopefully give you a good base to launch yourself as a trainer. In addition, assuming you have an excellent grasp of finance and financial services markets, I would suggest the following
- prepare a few modules on some core finance related topics and begin by teaching them in some post graduate / MBA courses. It could be anything from technical analysis of markets/ understanding derivatives or it could be as simple as finance for non finance or ration analysis or reading a Balance Sheet etc.
- Simultaneously get in touch with Mutual Funds/ Stock Broking Houses/ IT firms in the Financial Software sector / Insurance Companies etc. and try and get a break in them in their training division.
- You can also explore possibilities of taking training on finance related topics for corporates.
Best Wishes
From India, Mumbai
The reply given by me above should hopefully give you a good base to launch yourself as a trainer. In addition, assuming you have an excellent grasp of finance and financial services markets, I would suggest the following
- prepare a few modules on some core finance related topics and begin by teaching them in some post graduate / MBA courses. It could be anything from technical analysis of markets/ understanding derivatives or it could be as simple as finance for non finance or ration analysis or reading a Balance Sheet etc.
- Simultaneously get in touch with Mutual Funds/ Stock Broking Houses/ IT firms in the Financial Software sector / Insurance Companies etc. and try and get a break in them in their training division.
- You can also explore possibilities of taking training on finance related topics for corporates.
Best Wishes
From India, Mumbai
Dear Jacob,
The institute where i'm working has 3 branches in the city, imparting training of English speaking & some other courses to it's students.I'm the branch manager at one of the center.I want to start taking guest lecture across all the three centers to start working as a trainer.
Can you please suggest me a general topic to preapre and take a session.That will be my first step towards being a trainer.
Please guide.
From India, Bangalore
The institute where i'm working has 3 branches in the city, imparting training of English speaking & some other courses to it's students.I'm the branch manager at one of the center.I want to start taking guest lecture across all the three centers to start working as a trainer.
Can you please suggest me a general topic to preapre and take a session.That will be my first step towards being a trainer.
Please guide.
From India, Bangalore
Hi Prachii
Here are few topics that I can suggest. However the topic selection, structuring of the contents, the examples and the exercises must be tailored to meet your specific audience requirements.
- Introduction to Communication skills
- Confidence building
- Making presentations
- Time management
Alternatively you can choose some motivational topics like
- Success is never final nor failure ever fatal
- Hard work pays and smart work pays double
- Change with the times and be ahead
Hope the topics can trigger some more ideas and thoughts.
Best Wishes
From India, Mumbai
Here are few topics that I can suggest. However the topic selection, structuring of the contents, the examples and the exercises must be tailored to meet your specific audience requirements.
- Introduction to Communication skills
- Confidence building
- Making presentations
- Time management
Alternatively you can choose some motivational topics like
- Success is never final nor failure ever fatal
- Hard work pays and smart work pays double
- Change with the times and be ahead
Hope the topics can trigger some more ideas and thoughts.
Best Wishes
From India, Mumbai
Dear Sir,
I am already working as Asst. Professor in a management college wherin i am mentoring students on following subjects:
1. Commercial Banking
2. Insurance
Aswell i m working as visiting faculty in a BMS college and taking following subjects:
1. Export Import Management
2. Business Aspects in Banking & Insurance
My exposure & expertise lies into Insurance & Banking. i am sure that i can do my best working as in Trainer for Insurance into Product Training/sales Trainer or even for IRDA trainer.
Just need an opportunity to explore my skills & abilities..
From India, Thana
I am already working as Asst. Professor in a management college wherin i am mentoring students on following subjects:
1. Commercial Banking
2. Insurance
Aswell i m working as visiting faculty in a BMS college and taking following subjects:
1. Export Import Management
2. Business Aspects in Banking & Insurance
My exposure & expertise lies into Insurance & Banking. i am sure that i can do my best working as in Trainer for Insurance into Product Training/sales Trainer or even for IRDA trainer.
Just need an opportunity to explore my skills & abilities..
From India, Thana
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