Product Training for the Technical Expert

21 Now, Go Do It: To Be an Effective Trainer, You Must Train

Every good training class, every good presentation, and every good book has a call to action. This is your call to action. The principles in this book apply globally. Whether you are teaching in your hometown to local students or halfway around the globe in a foreign language, these principles will help make you an effective trainer. But they will only help if you go do it. To be an effective trainer, you must be a trainer. Just like your students, who must install your product in order to be an effective installer, or sell your product in order to be an effective seller, you must teach in order to be an effective instructor.

Two things make a great instructor: a love for learning and a love for people. Notice that I did not say a love for teaching is required. That is secondary. I hope that a love for teaching will come, but it is not required in order to be a good instructor.

When you combine a love for learning with a love for people, the result is a love for seeing others learn. When that learning makes a difference, you have become an effective instructor.

This book is just a step in the right direction. Create a plan that will increase your effectiveness as a trainer and keep you improving. Define your approach develop with a strategy, design with a structure, and then go out and deliver with a purpose.

Define Your Approach

DO Articulate How You Will Make Learning Effective

Can you articulate the philosophy ...