Is it possible a trainer has a sell-by date? Can a trainer have trained too long or is it possible that he has just trained too long on the same subject? When do we notice in ourselves that training is no longer a vocation – it is just a thing we do?

At one of our recent in-house trainer development workshops, one of our own trainers was discussing a training event that she had attended; an external trainer told delegates who were having a laugh regarding a work experience “to leave the in-house jokes outside and to stop grinning at each other”. I was dismayed when I heard this – I thought that this was not a great way to manage the learners – and yet one of our other trainers said that she admired her for managing the learners, short and sharp.

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