| Self-development
for the training manager – who trains the trainer?
You’re
expected to motivate, develop and train others; but how
do you keep yourself up and motivated?
Remember
what motivation is all about – having goals that inspire
a person to achieve more and more. It’s all about
the ‘motive’ to take ‘action’.
If
you want to motivate yourself, keep yourself up-to-date
in the career you have chosen. This will not only help in
developing your own skills and knowledge, but also in achieving
the right attitude to inspire yourself for improvement
There
are lots of web-sites that support the training field –
many offer free subscriptions to newsletters that keep you
in touch with new training developments. When you come across
a new idea, investigate it.
See
if it offers new opportunities to adapt your current training
offerings. Keep an open mind and determine if it would be
worth finding out more about new training ideas or processes.
Become curious. Ask what you personally can learn from finding
out new information. So subscribe to as many web-sites as
possible – just go through your favourite search engines
and you’ll be amazed how much depth there is out there
Read
good books and magazines. You cannot be successful without
reading! I have over 500 books in my library and many more
magazines, but not all of them are on training. Read a breadth
of information so as to develop yourself on a wide variety
of topics. Keep reading them on a regular basis throughout
the month and not just in reading binges.
Listen
to good information. Brian Tracy talks about turning your
car into a University.
Let’s
say you have a half-hour commute to work. If you buy, rent
or borrow personal and professional tapes or CDs for your
journeys to and from work, you will hear at least 20 hours
a month of fabulous information. That’s over 200 hours
a year – more than you’d get at university!
Get serious about your development.
Get
yourself into some good tapes and CDs. Give yourself a budget
to spend on materials that will make you into a motivated,
positive junkie! Above all, as you listen, apply the ideas
when you get to work – share the thoughts with others
in your department. Start a library in the office and get
others to contribute what they learn at team meetings.
Maintain
a positive group of friends and colleagues. Surround yourself
with people who will challenge you, encourage you, build
you up, be honest with you and be positive with you. You
know it makes sense to develop yourself and these people
will help you without effort.
You
know what will happen if you do the opposite – there’s
no doubt that negative people’s attitude will rub
off on you – don’t let others control how you
will create a legacy for yourself.
Focus
clearly on your goals. By setting goals and objectives for
yourself and your department, you are in an attitude of
motivation all the time. If you put your energies into your
goals, you’ll drive yourself towards a performance
to be proud of.
Discipline yourself to live your priorities. With this discipline
we find ourselves becoming more and more motivated. Becoming
more disciplined, we achieve more wins, which makes us feel
good, which motivates us even more, which makes us achieve
more, which makes us more disciplined, which makes us feel
even better, etc.
- Do
you regularly read good books and magazines?
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Do you regularly listen to good material?
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Do you surround yourself with positive and supportive
people?
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Do you know and focus on your goals?
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Do you discipline yourself to action even when you don’t
feel like it?
For
your own self-development, you owe it to yourself to create
a plan for designing your own future. View yourself as your
own consultant to your career and you will become a life-long
learner.
Take
responsibility. Be proactive. Never stop learning. Then
your effectiveness will grow in proportion to your self-development.
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