Why Training Shouldn’t be Like Being Back at School

Putting your average site worker behind a desk and showing them something on a whiteboard will almost certainly have the effect of making them twitch and fidget to be elsewhere. Making training like being back in school is not the right approach. Training should be enjoyable, if it isn’t, then the trainer will almost certainly miss the opportunity to get the message across or, at the very least, it will be a much more difficult task.

That is why here at C&D we make our training sessions as enjoyable as possible whilst maintaining the right balance of enjoyment and expected level of learning.

We make sure that the room environment we use is suitable and comfortable, we keep our presentation slides to a minimum, while enhancing their interest with pictures and videos. We also keep our participants on the move with group work so that they do not get stuck in one place for the whole session. Lastly we take the feedback we receive seriously. All comments, good and the very few bad, are acted upon immediately where possible, to enhance the learning experience of those participants on later courses.

However we also recognise that our trainers also need training. We are constantly updating their qualifications, to ensure that the information we are giving is the most up to date. As a minimum all our trainers have a level 3 Award in Education and Training or equivalent to back up technical qualifications and many years of experience.

This could be why we are so successful at what we do, with many long standing and satisfied clients, who know they can rely on C&D to provide the best possible training experience for their staff.