Be the Best Presenter in Your Company
(Create good office buzz about you and
create learners with these train the trainer tips.)
By Karen Porter
Publisher/Editor, The Effective Admin
How often do you
get to participate in the role of presenter or trainer, whether it's to an
informal small group of volunteers or a large class of your colleagues? At
work you might be asked to train your peers to use a new customer database.
Or you might do a presentation about business form completion and updates
and changes to existing business forms. You might lead a refresher course on
telephone skills. Or you might train new volunteers to field questions
during telephone calls.
After business hours, you might belong to an association where you're asked
to host a workshop to train others about one of your key knowledge areas.
And if you're not asked to lead any of these training sessions, you can
always become the subject expert and then initiate the idea with your boss
that you lead a session on the topic if it's needed.
Get Good Buzz Going
Leading presentation and training sessions gives you an opportunity to gain
recognition on the job and among your colleagues. If you do it well, you'll
start a good buzz that's about you. Plus an indirect benefit is more people
will know your name and who you are; and naturally, when you encounter more
people in life, you encounter more opportunities and open doors. You may
even change your image from that quiet "secretary" in Joe's office to that
lady or man who does the fabulous training sessions on what's usually boring
or confusing topics for some people (e.g. computer database training; forms
completion/changes).
Good Presentation and Training Skills are:
1) something that can make you stand out among your peers in your current
job and to your current employer.
2) something that you can put on your resume to attract or impress other
potential employers.
3) something that could even be turned into your own entrepreneurial
business.
Good Trainers Don't Want to be Heard
A good presenter or trainer causes buzz and engages people in learning.
"Do you want your audience to hear it or do you want them to learn it?" asks
Sharon Bowman of Bowperson Publishing and Training in Nevada (www.bowperson.com).
Bowman has been training the trainers as a corporate trainer for 12 years
and altogether has worked as a trainer and classroom teacher for both kids
and adults for more than 30 years. She has seven books on the subject of
training. When she talks, people don't just listen---they learn....
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