Hi, I'm Kevin Eikenberry and I'm here to help you reach your potential as a
leader and a human being. Welcome to Remarkable TV. Today we're
talking I'm gonna answer a question, a question I was asked recently, which is
what does it take to be a great trainer? Are you ready? Let's get started.
So a couple of weeks ago I got an email from one of our readers and she's been
thinking about the question that I posed a moment ago, what does it take to be a
great trainer? And she wanted my opinion and I asked her if it'd be okay if I use
it as an episode of Remarkable TV and she graciously said yes. So I've been
doing this thing called training for a long time and I suppose depending a
little bit on how you define it I've been doing it for over 25 years. So I've
thought a lot about this question in the past and I've trained a lot of trainers
in the past and I was thinking about it again as it related to her recent
question and I've got three things to share with you today.
The first one is that I think her question, while I understand it, leads us
down the wrong path. There's a lot of words that we can use to define 'trainer'
but I think the right one is to be a facilitator of learning. Yeah a great
trainer is a facilitator. We could use other words as I said like lecturer or
trainer or teacher but at the end of the day the right word I believe is a
facilitator of learning. To be a facilitator is to help others or to make
it easier for others in this case to learn something. So really our job as a
trainer and a really great trainer is someone who is trying to facilitate the
learning of others. Secondly really great trainers are focused on others. They're
other focused. They're not focused on themselves. They're not focused on the
topic. They're focused on the other person and helping the other person get
the outcome that they need. That's really what a great trainer is all about. Think
about the great trainers or teachers you had in your life. They are
focused on you being successful. And the third thing I'll say about great
trainers is that they know that it's really all about the learning. Yeah,
they're focused on others but they're also focused on the outcome and the outcome
is for a learner to really get it and the best way for us to get it is to
discover it. When we have ownership of it because we're like we had the aha moment.
Great trainers are in the business of helping to create the aha moment because
we are in the business of making the learning
happen. Now you may be thinking, "Kevin, why this isn't really aligned with the kinds
of topics that you normally talk about here." Well, I think it aligns directly
because we can say trainer, we can say facilitator, we can say lecturer, we can
say all those things but the same three things that I just talked about are
necessary for us to be a great coach and are necessary for us to be a great
leader as well. Yeah I could have expanded the list for a great trainer
but those top three things apply not just to trainers but also to us as
coaches and leaders and it's because of that that I share those three ideas with
you. That at the end of the day it's about us facilitating learning for
others and it's all about the learning. So let's summarize all that with today's
tweet. The best trainers are completely focused on the learning and the learner;
they know it isn't about themselves. Well for the last couple of minutes I've been
talking about training and and how to help other people learn is one of the
critical skills for us as coaches. So before I close let me just talk a little
bit about our Remarkable Coaching workshop and why you should join me for
the next opportunity. See, it's a workshop that I created and that I lead that is
an interactive, engaging, fun opportunity to work on your coaching skills. And, if I
do my job right, I will deliver on the three things I promised that great
trainers do. I'm completely focused on making it a learning experience that
works for you and delivers for you the ability to coach others more
successfully. If you want to learn more you can click on the links otherwise on other
places on this page and I hope that you'll do exactly that. Now before I go,
if you have comments about this video or if you've got things that you'd like us
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We're watching and it's impacting what we create for you. I look forward to
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