PARTICIPANT CONNECT PART -1 Trainers and Participants have always been introduced at their first meeting – the beginning of the training program. Participant introduction is in fact one of the most common ice-breaker used till date.However, with the importance of participant engagement in a program growing, trainers have started reaching out to participants before hand – through brochures and welcome letters. The next logical step in this direction is , of course, to reach out to participants well in advance, understand their needs, strengths and areas of development and matching those in a program to make it more meaningful and useful for the participants. So for a participant to feel truly engaged, he must be aware of why he is going to the program-its objective, what he will gain from it – design and agenda and ultimately how he is going to use it –support in application. For a training program to succeed one key ingredient that is often overlooked; the trainer-participant relation or connect. It begins pre-program for motivation and extends to post-program for development. This area is the focus point for our write up. For short duration programs, there is not enough time to set the motivation levels. Trainers cannot always fit in all the activities and assignments needed into the ‘contact’ durationand trainers have to adjust on the discussion time frames to cover all topics in the agenda.In the longer duration programs, there is a risk of participants coming in a ‘holiday mood’ and it takes a long time to build up seriousness. There is also always a lingering question on how much the participants will remember at the end of the program. So, irrespective of the duration of the program sharing the program objectives and the design before-hand sets the expectations and motivates the learners early. After the program, the trainer may want to share assignments or projects to help in smooth application of concepts and the participants may have some points that still need clarifications, this means that the trainer is needed even after the program ends. So what really are the issues that a trainer faces when he tries to do this? The participants and the trainer are in different locations, how to do you initiate and maintain communication channels? How to do you gather, record, track and analyze data being received. Trainers are hard pressed for time today, and when forced to choose, they would have to give importance to the training sessions. Having an application that supports you with these steps frees up your time and gives you the opportunity to focus on your sessions without having to compromise on the participant connect. CONTINUED in Participant Connect part -2 Regards, Content and Research Team SimplifyMyTraining
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:27:37 +0000
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