The life of a training facilitator is not as glamorous as it might seem to the casual observer.
There's a lot of travel, but that just means a lot of time in airports or stuck on long and boring motorways. L&D professionals don't typically travel in hot air balloons with personal menservants called Passepartout - the budgets rarely stretch that far.
It's not just the solitude of travel, it's the loneliness of being in a group of learners in a workshop, but needing to keep distant from them. We encourage social learning and network building, but we're the guide on the side not another member of the gang.
It doesn't stop there!
Often we're associated with change, and change is sometimes bad news, at least for some of the people ... and even if not, we're in the business of challenging people, pushing them out of their comfort zones, perhaps even asking difficult questions that make people think. We might even cause all sorts of trouble by demanding manager involvement or by challenging cultural aspects that might be getting in the way of learning.
Claire Simmons is an expert in offering career advice - and not just how to make your CV look nice. Her organisation (NewFuture.me) works with people through the emotional side of career change, redundancy, and picking the right options for the future.
In this podcast she talks through her approach and how we, as L&D professionals, can apply the same techniques to help look after ourselves.
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The 4Ts Model of Online Training: How to Avoid Disaster
How to create a truly inclusive culture that changes people’s biases
The future of work and what it means for L&D
The art of elegant measures that improve learning retention
The future of Learning and Development at the heart of the organisation
What do Marketing need from Learning and Development?
What learning and development can learn from stand-up comedy
How Learning and Development can get closer to the business
Following their path, not yours
What does the business want from learning and development?
The Essentials Mix: How to keep learners engaged on training courses
Leadership Development: The End of May
How to put learning at the centre of how your organisation succeeds
Language learning at work: how to do it and why it’s worth it
How can we train executive presence in leadership development?
Identity Crisis! Is Learning and Development fulfilling its purpose?
5 tips to better learning videos
Using simulations to bring leadership development to life
Transactional Analysis for trainers (part three): understanding drivers (or working styles)
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