Are you getting the most from your investment in training?
By Susanna Bellini
Teachers teach skills and share insights and experience. Good teachers also have very high aims, goals and standards for their students.
How these will be applied: how receptive the student is to receiving and integrating them and how and where they will apply them, is up to the student.
If you are considering investing in training then cost, location, dates etc. are considerations; course subject and content is more important, but most important and beneficial of all is to think through these questions:
Why do you want to do this course / learn these skills?
It could be “just for fun and interest”, but it is generally best for your learning to have a “big picture” reason, some kind of purpose in mind within your life plan.
What do you hope to gain from doing this course?
Social interaction? Specific skills? A certificate to allow you to go into Practice?
Being clear about your aims up front helps you to make a good decision about whether this training can deliver these for you.
How will you apply the things you learn?
If you don’t use the skills you’ll learn, you’ll soon lose them, and that’s a waste of your training investment. Make sure you have a good, practical and realistic post-course plan in place.
How can you do your part to make the most of your training?
Will you clear your course time, so that you can focus on the training without distractions? Will you clear or set aside any mental or emotional concerns, so that you can be fully present and engaged in the training?
When you can give good answers to the above questions and have decided on a course and teacher that fits for you, go ahead and book your place.
Now, (if you didn’t already fill in the detail in the course of answering the above) –
Revisit all these questions again and map out specifics for yourself, fill in the details. This investment in yourself and your training experience will reward you 1000-fold both during and after your training experience and for the rest of your life.
Susanna Bellini
Bronze Dragon International Training
This article was posted by Susanna Bellini
