What are the Essential Qualities of a Good Trainer of Professional Courses?

Training is a highly specialized domain in itself and needs lot of expertise to do the job well. Training children is a lot different than training adults and both the aspects require a different skill set. While with kids, the trainer has to think like them, with adults the trainer teaching professional courses needs to think beyond the learners. 

Knowledge: The first thing that you need to become a good trainer is thorough knowledge of the subject. This is the most important thing as only when you have good command over a subject can teach the same to your students.

Temperament: A good trainer needs to have good temperament else he/she will never be able to strike a rapport with students and win their confidence.

Presentation skills: The most important job of a trainer is presenting information in a manner that the learners can grasp and understand. As such, a trainer needs to have very good presentation skills.

Posture and body language: A good trainer must always have a very positive body language. The posture of a god trainer must be such that he/she exudes confidence when addressing a class full of eager learners.

Ability to customize: A good trainer is one who can customize the concepts as per the understanding potential of the learner. Not all learners can understand certain concepts in the same way so a good trainer must always have two or three alternate ways to explain a concept.

Honesty: A good trainer needs to be honest. It is practically not possible for any human to know everything under the Sun, as such when faced with a question whose answer you are not aware of, it is best to tell the same to the class. Another great way of handling the “I don’t know’ situation is involving the class in finding the answer. By doing this you not only reinstate your honesty but also involve the class in finding the answer and in tandem learning new things.

Ability to Involve and Engage: Many a times it so happens that teachers tend to be too quick to help. However, a good trainer is one who does not help by giving the answer but helps by helping find the answer. A good trainer will always try to involve and engage the students.

So, if you are planning to take up a career in training, do make sure that you have the following attributes. Also, do enroll into various certification programs meant for trainers as once certified you can always enroll with reputed educational institutes. There are many training centres that only accept the candidature of certified professionals as a result, without due certifications you will not be able to get placed anywhere. There are reputed educational institutes giving In-house training in Dubai to prepare you for positions of trainers and work in the country. If not in Dubai you can always look for similar programs offered in other cities and enroll yourself to further your career goals.