Management training, including soft skills training, is known to be the hotbed of training-related
innovation, due to many reasons. One, because of the fact that
management, as a subject, ropes in expertise from allied and diversified areas like
psychology, physiology, economics, the English language and
literature, mathematics, statistics, ancient history, and anthropology to name
a few. On the top of it, the subject being different from other
conventional and professional programs, calls for out-of-the-box
thinking from the trainer-trainee duo. They say management training is
successful only when you start seeing the results, whether it is related to
top-lines or bottom lines. Modern day management training calls for
a facelift in the current context. For this to happen, one has to be
bold as innovation calls for failure and frustration, and more than that,
the trainers fraternity has to accept the fact, that collaboration is here
to stay. Add to it the blending of technology, and the whole new
recipe looks afresh, full of new ingredients, new toppings and deserts. As is
often the case, the trainers who consider their profession as fun, are
the ones who are successful in making that perceptible difference.
These hard facts of training were realized only when the trainer came out
of the cocoon, which was woven around the mind surrounded by
an outer coating, known as ego. This cocoon was getting dangerous by
the day, till the trainer realized the ill-effects while handling training
in an international environment for the very first time. The alarm
bells were ringing and the trainer had to react, and fortunately the
fast changes made in the career moves, enabled the trainer to see how
training calls for localization, customization and
globalization from time to time, especially when the training environment is
different and the stakeholders although have the same nomenclature,
varies like that of chalk and cheese. The few things mentioned below
are the ones, which the trainer realized first hand and may not be a
thumb rule for everyone. The metamorphosis he went through initially was
a little disturbing as he was finding it difficult to come out of the
comfort zone, was resistant to change and was struggling to leave behind
his ego. Interactions during the trainer's exposures in Dubai, Abu Dhabi,
Jordan, Sydney, Muscat, Ibra, in addition to the past experiences in
different parts of India, catapulted the trainer from the cocoon. Now
when the trainer sits back and ponders, he feels that the facelift was
possible only because he had brought in an alteration in the prism of
looking into things.
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