Nevermore!

I swear this will be the last time i help out the organization's training & consultancy thing to do training. Not to 'rubbish' their efforts or anything, but i seriously don't have that much of a good impression of them. Perhaps the unit is too small but the fact that they are trying to 'sell' themselves sometimes make me ask if they 知不知道天高地厚。给我一种口花花的感觉。很wayang.

Back to the training. Supposed to be an easy thing since all the materials/videos are there and the powerpoints etc. I was only to deliver it since F is "unavailable". Seems F's on leave but something that L said also made me wondered if they wanted someone else to do it this time. I hate working 'with' F because of her tardiness in work, being undependable and the flowery language. Took a while for F to send me the powerpoints san videos. F said to send me the video clips etc by the weekend but still nothing on monday. Turned out that she was on leave and in Sentosa. Well, nobody told me. Admin had to hound her for me and when the clips finally came, the footage is unbelievably OLD. The child in the clip has already graduated 2 years ago and the psychologist has quit 5 years ago. I swear the clip was before MY time. I can't believe F has been using these for the training for so long.

The powerpoints' materials needed tweaking too. Too 'showy' and you have to dig for the substance. Bottomline, i am not sure if it will meet up to current needs at all. So much for "just need to deliver". I had to come up with new games, new format of organizing the training and reschedule the sequence just 2 days before (by the time i was confirmed to do this and chasing people for the material, i am almost suppose to be up there already) because i don't want to be up there and get shot as a lousy trainer due to bad materials. Anyway, the training facilities sucked. 30 people crowded into one tiny room the size of my HDB living room. No wonder everyone rated logistics badly.

Next week's part II will be just my stuff i think. I told admin to trash the handouts because I refused to 'own' those materials. Maybe that's why L wanted me to do it, these people seriously need to get in touch with the ground work again and refresh their materials ASAP. And they are still out there training teachers. I doubt i am that fantastic a trainer but frankly, i wouldn't want to sit for their training as a trainee at all. I may not be a good speaker, but one edge i definitely have over them is that i am more in tune with what's happening with the subject matter. Any Tom, Dick or Harry can train from a textbook. Sure, if you can 'perform' from textbook scripts well, you probably don't get that bad a critique but the audience today are a discerning bunch. You got to do more then 'read from the text' well... you jolly well have to know what the heck you are talking about. The true test is always the Q & A, i've seen the rubbish people do at Q & A where the trainers don't even understand the questions and concerns, hence just sweep those aside. Some would just altogether skip this part.

So my opinion is to these people... get back into the game people! Don't just wear a nice suit/dress and stand infront of people talking AS IF you know what's happening out there. Go into the classrooms. Work with a child. Talk to parents. Talk to the teachers. Try implementing those things that you have said THEN come back and tell me that what's you are saying is truly reflecting current reality and needs of the people. And for godsakes... get some NEW video clips!